Hacker

Hacker (computer security) or cracker, who accesses a computer system by circumventing its security system
Hacker (programmer subculture), who shares an anti-authoritarian approach to software development now associated with the free software movement

Hacker is mostly widely used as a derogatory term for someone who is involved in illegal online activities.…

Today’s Incident of Facebook not opening in India made one thing clear: You cannot rely on default DNS of your ISP. Following ISPs were observed to block Facebook:

MTNL
BSNL
Tikona
Reliance
Airtel

Earlier, Indian Govt had requested Facebook and Google to screen the content. This time, No Public statement was released, but it was observed nationwide, but yes things were back to normal in a couple of hours!…

Recently one of my Friends Blog received 16000+ SPAM Comments in a span of just over a month.

TimeLine:
Jan 1: Checkpoint
Jan 23: Spam at its Peak
Jan 24: Corrective Measure Taken
Jan 31:… Checkpoint
 
WordPress 3.0 – No Plugins, Default Installation.

Today, I was trying to submit a URL to Google. As usual i simply opened Google and searched for “add url to google” , Google returned me the following results.

The Top Result https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url/ actually gives a 404 error (Jan 22, 2012 – 3.16 AM IST)

Surprisingly when you remove the / (forward slash) from the end of URL, it starts working https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url
The URL has been fixed on Google “Submit Your Content” Page, but search results are still returning old URL.…

Last week we saw a mass online Blackout (#WikipediaBlackout). We also implemented a 503 Status Code Outage.

Now several people suggested methods for blackout. Lets take each of them.
1. Delete The Content
Never do this mistake. Since you dont have any files on your web folder anymore, it will return a 404 error.…