Cyber Resilience: A Strategic Handbook for Business Leaders
[Book Launch] Cyber Resilience: A Strategic Handbook for Business Leaders Excited to share that our new book "Cyber Resilience: A Strategic Handbook for Business Leaders" has been launched by Padma Vibhushan Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar. Co-Authored by Aalok Karnik. Foreword by Chairperson of Honeywell, Ganesh Natarajan and wholehearted supported by Dinanath Kholkar throughout the process. We...
New eBook: Navigating The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill of India – 2023
📚 Exciting News! Introducing our new eBook: “Navigating The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill of India – 2023” 🔒 Are you ready to tackle the complexities of the bill? Here’s a guide breaking down the key aspects in a clear and understandable way from a technical implementation point of view. 🔑 What’s Inside: – Demystifying...
CERT-In: Guidelines on Information Security Practices for Government Entities.
A quick appreciation note to CERT-In for the commendable work done regarding the “Guidelines on Information Security Practices for Government Entities.” The comprehensive guidelines deserve recognition as they showcase a meticulous approach towards: By implementing these measures, government entities can actually mitigate the risk of unauthorized access and protect sensitive information from potential threats. Suggestions...
Introducing our latest free e-book: ” Cybersecurity for Startups”.
As an entrepreneur, you are aware that information security is a challenge arising from building and growing a new business. Unfortunately, information security is often deprioritized over say product development or marketing. A single data breach can be disastrous for your company’s reputation and finances. Together with Aalok Karnik, I’ve authored this e-book designed to...
Demystifying CERT-In directives (dated 28th April 2022)
[Download PDF] Introduction Cyber security has always been a hot topic area and it’s gaining momentum by leaps and bounds these days (which is great for information security professionals like us 😀 ). In all seriousness, “Data is the new Oil” and there are criminal agencies operating worldwide with impunity that harvest user data and...
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – MVP (again)
Super excited to be awarded by Microsoft for the 10th time in a row as Most Valuable Professional in the domain of “Enterprise Security” under the named award category of “Cloud and Datacenter Management”. A decade is a good thing, right 🙂 For the sake of clarity, It’s awarded for non-commercial community contributions, commercially benefiting...
Mont Blanc India – An interesting fraud or a real bad way of handling operations
UPDATE: Looking at the comments on this blog so far, it's definitely a scam, not a bad way of handling operations On the 9th December 2019, I received an SMS that genuinely piqued my interest. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t entertain any unsolicited offers but I am a luxury fountain pen fanboy, and Mont Blanc is a...
Another Entrepreneurial Milestone
I am delighted to announce that my company “Junco Technologies” has been acquired by Quick Heal Technologies Ltd in an all stock deal.. As you may be aware, Quick Heal is one of the leading IT security solutions company listed with the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange. However, I will continue to be...
Misty Rhythms – What a music band
I remember in good old days when I was in school & I heard this music band called “Misty Rhythms”. The album was called as “Aye Laila” & had one song with a music video which got somewhat popular due to fresh born MTV in India those days. (Can anyone point me to the actual...
Free WebApp Security Testing Tools
A lot of tweets today informed me about launch of Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA) which is basically an aid for security professionals to test their skills and tools and help web developers better understand the processes of securing web applications. I had an old list of tools/plug-ins/utilities etc which can be helpful while playing...
Password analysis from 10,000 leaked Hotmail passwords
On 5th October theregister reported more than 10,000 password were leaked mysteriously on pastebin.com. See this tweet As a followup study “Acunetix Web Application Security Blog” did an analysis on the kind of password people use. Some interesting findings are as follows- Statistics: The list initially contained 10,028 entries. There are 8931 (90%) unique passwords...
Indian IT act made little easy for common man
Understanding Indian IT act (& amendments) made little easy for common man Crime: A mobile phone or computer or any electric device is stolen.Section to be applied: 66B.Punishment: Jail term up to 3 years and/or fine up to 1 lakh. Crime: Data owned by you or your company in any form is stolen.Section to be...
Punetech is…
I was thinking of writing a blog on the first B’day of PuneTech and tried some online tricks Google: “PuneTech is…” # PuneTech is a free, non-commercial website run by volunteers to disseminate information about information technology and software engineering in Pune. # punetech is of course a great service # PuneTech is a service...
Cheat Sheets: Networking, Hacking, Security, Administration, Tools
Here is a bunch of CheatSheets which might be useful from time to time to use as a reference:# TCP/IP and tcpdump Cheat Sheet – SANS.org# Google Hacking and Defense Cheat Sheet – SANS.org# Intrusion Discovery Cheat Sheet Windows – SANS.org# Intrusion Discovery Cheat Sheet Linux – SANS.org# SQL Injection Cheat Sheet – ha.ckers.org# Cross...
Life in (Delhi)metro !!!
I came to Delhi 2 weeks back. Wanted to write a lot but not getting enough time.Actually not getting enough time to write a blog post, twittering is still on at full speed (@rohit11) Lets divide the post into sectionsWINTER:Freak, Don’t even talk about that. I have spent my 3 years in Meerut which is...
Goodbye Pune, Stay classy Pune
I never thought I’ll be posting something long and boring like this but feeling like putting few words on this subject. I’m leaving Pune and shifting to Delhi for few years. For those who know I worked as Director Technology for the Commonwealth Youth Games held in october 2008 and same is the reason why...
UNtrusted Certificates from UNtrusted CA
Following HDMoore’s twit I stumbled on this case of Man-in-the-middle attack with a valid SSL certificate from a shady reseller. Eddy Nigg was able to buy a certificate in the name of mozilla.com from a reseller of comodo named ‘Certstar’. In response of this issue, comodo says That reseller’s ability to sell Comodo certificates has...
Indian IT Act Ammendment Bill
Yesterday on 22nd of December 2008, Lok Sabha and today on 23rd December 2008, Rajya Sabha passed the Information Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2006″ It was passed by Rajya Sabha also within one minute. See extracts from Rajya Sabha Bulletin 2-04 p.m.(3) The Information Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2008, as passed by Lok Sabha. Shri A. Raja,...
Messing with perl
Ooh not me, but thinking of doing it soon But XKCD is so true again 🙂 I’m thinking of messing with both PERL & Python.Don’t be amused, I’m OK, healthy and fine. Just want to do some dirty scritping
ClubHack on NDTV
NDTV took an interview and a few bytes on 6th December in ClubHack but somehow they telecasted it as wardriving report. Few clarifications here.1: its not a group of students-turned-hackers2: not even teenagers, butno harm if someone is reducing my age by 10 years or so
Powerstatus for Windows Mobile
I found this tiny(absolute tiny) and wonderful utility for windows mobile. It uses top 2 pixel row of your screen and shows you the battery as well as memory status. A quick look at the phone will give you an idea that how much battery is remaining and if you have enough memory free or...
ClubHack2008
One day to go for the India’s second hackers’ convention Date: 6th & 7th December 2008Place: PuneVenue: International Convention Center, SB Road. AddressSchedule: ScheduleRegistration: Registration
Wardriving Pune
On 10th November 2008, ClubHack with support of Cyber Crime Cell of Pune Police conducted a Wardriving in Pune, Maharashtra. This Wardriving aimed at analysis of wireless network security in Pune city at common places like ITparks, residential areas, market areas, hotels, airport etc. To our amaze, we found nearly 81% of Pune’s wifi to...
“Free Internet Access” “Free Public WiFi” The Viral SSID
Ever wondered what is this “Free Public WiFi” or “Free Internet Access” wireless network visible in most of the places?These are known as Viral SSID, don’t expect it to be a free access to internet 🙂 Read more about Viral SSID on ClubHack blog
No to all
Working on windows XP I have faced this problem a hunder times. While copying files from one folder to another where the some of the file already exists we see this “Confirm file replace” dialog box.At times when there are many duplicate files, it feels stupid to keep clicking “No” or pressing “N” on keyboard....
My take on OpenID
Google announced so called OpenID launch which scared me again about OpenIDI’m not totally against OpenID concept, I’m just paranoid about it at this stage. Here’s my take on Risks With OpenID
I’m back (online)
Hey Friends,I’m back online after a small pause of 10-15 days. I wished I could have gone offline like Tarun, Moksh , Harsha and many others who take a break, disconnect themselves from computer/Internet world and enjoy their non-digital life. But this pause of mine was little different. I was not away from my laptop...
unlimited hosting space
Now this is cool!I use this hosting provider called “dreamhost” which gives a lot of webspace and bandwidth. When I signed up few years back I got some 200gb space and a few TB bandwidth which is increasing weekly like your gmail account space and now my account is above 600gb and >6TB in bandwidth...
Mom’s guide to secure home wifi connection
Ok! Have been hearing a lot of noise about wifi connection getting attacked and misused. So thought of writting a small howto for securing home wifi device. Steps: # Open the configuration of your home wifi device. Generally its done by opening the IP address of your wireless router in the browser # Login to...
CHROME : Google’s new open source browser to be released today
Google announced the launch of its new browser called chrome. It will be launched in US on tuesday, thats end of the day today. Glimps of the product was released via comic (which I think is a nice way to communicate). BTW this comic was created by Scott McCloud of classic Understanding Comics fame. Comic:...
New Features in Nmap
In Fyodor’s talk at Blackhat he talked about the research he’s been doing, and the ways that research has helped him to improve Nmap with lot many enhancements. Let’s have a look at the most interesting one. Abstract: One of Fyodor’s main focuses was improving Nmap’s speed through improvedefficiency. One of the best ways to...
Horrible flight from Delhi to Jaipur
As promised in http://twitter.com/rohit11/statuses/895182069 here is the report of my flight experience from Delhi to Jaipur. The day started nicely where my driver brought me from Connaught place to airport in flat 14 minutes. Though the roads were clear at 6 in the morning, but still 14 minutes is too less for this distance. It...
Olympic opening ceremony fireworks were faked & a BSOD during performance
Its been reported that some of the Olympic opening ceremoney fireworks were faked.China is accused of faking it!!!! Why am I not surprised????? Source:http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Some-Opening-Ceremony-fireworks-were-faked?urn=oly,99745 If you watched the Opening Ceremony on Friday night, chances are you saidsomething like, “no way that’s possible” at least once. It turns out you wereright.The faked fireworks were actually set-off...
How to host a static website on Google AppEngine
Here’s a quick HOWTO on setting up your static website on Google AppEngine.I promise to keep it very simple and easy to understand for my non-geeky friends Registering an application:Firstly register an application on Google AppEngine. It doesn’t matter what you call it, for this HOWTO lets name it mysamplesite.You’ll need a regular gmail account...
Fun with Google spreadsheet
Many of you might have used Google docs and spreadsheet, but have you ever tried this “magic” trick 😉 Ok, open up a spreadsheet and enter “Google” in the top left cell, and enter “Yahoo” in the cell below. Now select both the cells you created. Hold down the Ctrl key, and drag the bottom...
The Company
Imagine a company with almost 20000 employees…… with 1 billion customers… created from scratch in less than 3 years… operating for just a few weeks 1000s journalists are in town……to capture the scoop…successes and failures With more than 200 people…… to roll out the entire IT infrastructure of the “company”… to issue passport-grade badges to...
Force Gmail to Always Use Secure Connection
On 24th July 2008, Google rolled out an option which you can use to force your communication with Gmail server over secure channel (read HTTPS). If you go to the Settings and select “always use https”, Gmail will automatically redirect to the secure version. Until now, you had to manually type https://mail.google.com/ in the address...
Sunday fun blogging: Lets Play Soccer
Let’s play soccer
Watch who is accessing your Gmail account
New feature from google allows you to monitor and control login activity. Now you can see from where all you (or someone else) logged in and which IPs are online at this moment You migh have accessed gmail from a cybercafe or a public internet terminal and forgot to log out. Now you can do...
Sunday fun blogging: Video game
Lucky me! Today I got a half sunday after so many busy weekends. So thought of doing some “Sunday fun blogging“. Video game when the teacher is outclick to enlarge Now onwards I’d try to do more sunday fun blogging 🙂
Phishing using Google Calendar
Few days ago an interesting attempt to phish for Google account credentials made it to my friend’s inbox. As you may know, phishing emails are sent out by abusers to make the recipient in some way reply with their password or click through to enter their password, but the more official looking they are, the...
soon you can buy a domain name of your choice (TLD)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/technology/27icann.html According to new rules unanimously passed by ICANN, at its meeting inParis, any company, organization or country will soon be able to apply for a newWeb address extension, called a top-level domain. That means you can buy a TLD of your own choice soon That could smooth the way for Web addresses that end...
Orkut is now faster and lighter
Google is working hard to make its sites available even to people on low bandwidth. Last they worked upon gmail & now its time for orkut.They have reworked on the code so that if the pages are taking time to load, user will get a prompt to switch over to low-bandwidth version of the same....
Let’s make a world record
Have you attempted to set a World Record with no luck? Well, now is your chance to change that!Help set a Guinness World Record by pledging to download Firefox 3 today. I’ve pledged. Have you???
Stargazing in Blogosphere
Source: http://xkcd.com
are you a search engine addict… do some ego search.
Try Addict-o-matic founded by Dave Pell [http://davenetics.com/]It searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It’s the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what’s up and what’s now.
150 days to go…
Today we are celebrating “150 days to go…” for the commonwealth youth games 2008 in Pune. Celebration includes waking up @ 6 in the morning and being at sarasbaug @ 7 to attend a painting event. It was hard getting up but when we reached sarasbaug, it was real fun Painters and prominent Pune citizens...
” एक सामान्य बनाने में सुरक्षा की भावना “
I’m loving thisToday I tried playing with “Google Hindi Translater” on my site and I’m still laughing on some of the translations. Some commonly used terms are very nicely translated, like “about us”, “contact us” etc. But the fun is to go through the uncommon sentences. Here are a few examples Making security a common...
Contingency Plan
You must have contingency plan for every thing, even for the planning 😉
Another interview in Times of India
Thanks to Deepa Gupta for the interview which got published on 27th April 2008 in “MeerutPlus”. For those who don’t know, Meerut is the city where I have done my graduation from and it’s like my second home today. contd…
my interview on Times of India
Thanks to Preeti for the interview which got published on 19th April 2008 in “Westside plus”.UPDATE: & eastsideplus on 22nd April 2008 More press coverage @ http://rohit11.com/home/news.html UPDATE: Eastsideplus version
I love geeks, they love privacy…
Geeks always find ways to protect their privacy. Maa!!! mere liye bhi ek sweater bun de… 🙂 Source: http://www.geekologie.com/2008/04/warmth_and_privacy_while_using.php
we didn’t start the fire…
A flash file is embeded here & might take time to load. Thanks Preeti for pointing me to this. She sang this with her kids for ~16 times 🙂 Thanks Ye Li for the hard work UPDATE: Edited the video size as it was hogging the screen hiding the comments.Need to change the template also,...
Internet thinks you are fat and….
[Source] http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1091.html
Can april fool kill someone?
Andrew bled to death
Now that’s what I call as April Fool Day
As we all remember, Google generally have something or the other for April fools day.I was waiting to see the one for 2008 but what I noticed that this time its not 1 or 2 jokes.Here is the list of jokes for April 2008Gmail: Custom timehttp://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.htmlGoogle Calendar: Google Wake Up Kithttp://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new_wakeup.htmlGtalk: Goes greenhttp://googletalk.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-talk-goes-green.htmlGoogle Virglehttp://www.google.com/virgle/index.htmlGoogle China:...
BarCampMumbai3 & BlogCampMumbaiStyle
Ok, here goes the 3rd barcamp of Mumbai & this time blogcamp was plugged along with it.It was a good camp, i would call it a great success. I gave a tiny talk on security related issues for those who maintain thier own installations of blogs. More photos available @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/blogcampindia/
Akshay and Swati are proud parents now…
Akshay, my grads days buddy is now a “papa”Reached Meerut today by 1400hrs, took lunch and rushed to hospital to meet Swati.Swati, the brave girl was in pain but still was wearing her lovely smile. It wasn’t late when she was taken to the labour room. It was like the angle was waiting for me...
eYoga
Nice One !!!Source: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1014.html
Songs on the code (Puzzle)
Anyone game???// song 1sleep = false;gogo(); // song 2wall += brick; // song 3var tiger[i]; // song 4for (i = 0; i < breath.length; breath++){take(breath);} // song 5var it = now never; // song 6day–; // song 7var color = new Color(0,0,0);canvas.fill(color); // song 8mine->childNode->setAttribute(NORMAL_SUGAR * 100); // song 9var year = 1980 – 1;...
PHUN with 2D physics
Though I’m not a good student of physcics but i liked these videos a lotHave a look&& I hope you’ll enjoy these
Men, Women & Donkeys Math
Human = eat + sleep + work + enjoyDonkey = eat + sleepTherefore, Human = Donkey + work + enjoyIf, Human – enjoy = Donkey + workIn other words,Human that don’t know enjoy = Donkey that work************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******Men = eat + sleep + earn moneyDonkeys = eat + sleepTherefore, Men =...
BarCampPune4 a big bang success!!!
So here ends the 4th BarCamp of Pune, the theme this time was “Love for technology” inspired by the valentines day 🙂 We saw a good crowd of real geeks this time. Low on talks about web2.0 bubble or ERship and very high on technical stuff. Thats what Pune loves. I’d put in this way:...
All set for BarCampPune4
Its 0045hrs and now I’m ready to hit the bed after doing the initial setup for BarCampPune4 in the morningToo tired to put more, see http://barcamppune.blogspot.com/ for details Catch you in the morning.
Rafting and kayaking
We always have some special way of celebrating republic day. This is it was rafting and kayakingWith four more friends, I went for river rafting on this 26th. This river kundalika is some 100km from and is a nice place to spend your day.We started little late (thanks to Avanti for coming late) at about...
Google Sari by Satya Paul
Satya Paul’s latest collection of sari is called “Oogle sari” Real Good! [Source]Image: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2211375189&size=oNews: http://seo-kolkata.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-in-fashion-or-fashion-with.html
CD / DVD lasts for 2 years only 🙁
Arvind pointed me to this & I was amazed to know the fact. My DVDs and CDs are good for few years only A quick googling gave me this… >>You know those CD-R’s and DVD-R’s that you’ve trusted your most precious memories to? They could be little more use than coasters after just two years.http://dvdplusvideo.com/petesguide12a.html...
Happy Bday TCP/IP, silver jubilee celebration
Lets raise a toast to TCP/IP for making networks so easy and popular. Happy Bday to you, Happy Bday to you, Happy Bday dear TCP/IP, Happy Bday to you…. Read more @ http://january-1-tcp-ip.blogspot.com/UPDATE: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1142766 (My comments in DNA )
Breakfast @ Tamhini, Lunch @ Dapoli & Dinner @ Mahabaleshwar
Weird! But true, this is how we celebrated our Christmas 🙂515 km just to see sunset @ Dapoli Pratik & Sabhtarsha came with this weird idea of seeing sunset at Dapoli beach (220km from Pune) and we all agreed to it. The team included six people on three bikes. My thunderbird was not in a...
Back to Camping…
Here we are, organizing the 4th BarCamp of Pune The team is little bit twisted this time, some oldies might not be physically available,Atul & Anand shifted to USDibya is on the run againKarthik is now in Bangalore But no worries, I’m here with Kiran & Tarun. With few good people supporting like Anil &...
ClubHack 2007
OK, I’m back to my blogosphere now 🙂 I was busy doing the first Hackers’ Convention of India by the name “ClubHack 2007“ The event was on 9th of December 2007 @ International Convention Center, Pune 12 quality speakers shared their knowledge with people. http://clubhack.com/2007/speakers.html We saw a good crowd of technically smart people attending...
SQL Injection @ XKCD
http://xkcd.com/327/
Where are we heading mister (bar)Camper
So finally I reached SJMSOM by 1130hrs & saw that my talk was scheduled at 1400hrs. Tarun created a good base before I reached by the catchy “gabbar” statement for my topic. Was an OK experience all together but was sorry to see the missing punch of BarCamps. All the topics of the day were...
Once a (Bar)Camper, always a camper
Very true!Attended MashupCamp yesterday in Pune & here I’m on my way to BarCampMumbai2. Thought of trying the alternate mode of commute to Mumbai & hopped on “Deccan Queen” in the morning at about 0715. Man! this is a nice train. Much comfortable than Volvo travel to Mumbai. And above all, I’m connected. Thanks to...
CSRF attack, Gmail and Adsense Hacked. How to be safe??
We all noticed a lot of noise on the CSRF attack recently unearthed in Gmail which is really dangerous & can cause harm to many other websites also. [1] [2] So the question arises, What to do to be SAFE?Here are few alternatives, select one as per your convenience. 1) POP your mails: I’ll again...
SkillsCamp @ Pune [Live Blogging]
0930: Good morning!, Here we are with yet another BarCamp. This one is specialized into training & video casting of tutorials. 0945: People are still coming. Not a very big crowd though. Now this is the actual crowd who comes for Camp & not for the free t-shirt. This time we have not kept any...
A day with fancy keyboards
When I saw few images of fancy laser keyboards online & the flexible keyboard in “Die Hard 4.0” and Yahoo! store online, I made up my mind to get my hands on the same. My friend Rohas Nagpal brought me the same on his recent trip to Singapore & I had a nice time playing...
Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Policy
[The Policy I follow] This policy outlines how I try to handle responsible disclosure of a vulnerabilityto the product vendors, security vendors and the general public. Step 1: Vulnerability detected Step 2: Inform the vendor of the product or the servce formally through email to following mail accounts/aliasessecurity@VENDOR,support@VENDOR,info@VENDOR,secure@VENDOR,admin@VENDOR,sysadmin@VENDOR Step 3: Wait for vendor’s acknowledgement for...
Yet another successful BarCamp
Here we are organizing the third sequel of BarCamp in PuneA deferred live report 🙂 0845: Reached Persistent Tower. As I entered the building the first thing I noticed was Kiran running around managing posters. This guy was the man behind the success of BarCampPune3. 0850: Started the day, managed a few posters & then...
Now this is what I call as a geek!
A funny incidence happened in BlogCampPune few days back There were 4-5 guys (read GEEKS) standing & chatting with few cute babes.While the conversation was going on, a guy came from back & said“hey, my CSS is not working fine in IE6, its working in IE7 & FF”Guess what, suddenly everyone turned their back to...
steganography, the easy way… No steganography software required
Yes you read it right – No steganography software So here is a quick howto on doing image steganography with common tools, no specialized software. 1: Compress the file you want to secure( I tried both rar & zip), say secure.zip2: Take the image file which you want to use, say image.jpg3: run the following...
Software piracy through belarc
I just got my office scanned for software inventory using a tool called belarc advisor.While going through reports I wondered how easy it can be for anyone to get license key of any software using belark report & google Just try this search & you’ll get to know by yourself http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=intitle%3A%E2%80%9DBelarc+Advisor+Current+Profile%E2%80%9D Scary, very scary…
Why my site & blog is BLACK in color 😉
Apart from the reason that black is my favorite color, I found yet another reason for background of my site & blog to be black in color # Black pages are more ergonomics# Black background saves energy (more in case of CRT than LCD)# Black is my favorite color# Black is a nice movie (India);)
INDIA POISED, Our time is now
There are two Indias in this country. One India is straining at the leash, eager to spring forth and live up to all the adjectives that the world has been recently showering upon us. The other India is the leash. One India says give me a chance and I’ll prove myself. The other India says...
Can Microsoft Defender be trusted
I was digging MS Defender (anti-malware) & found that even MS is thinking before classifying tools like EXPLORER.EXE (Windows Explorer) IEXPLORE.EXE (Internet Explorer) See that ypager.exe is classifed 🙂 MS trust yahoo but not itself.
Lessons from the Google story
Digital Samurai pointed out 14 lessons from the Google StoryMy selected few 1. Connections – human, computer, biology – are everything. Life = networks. 2. Never compromise your ideals because someone said it’s impossible, stupid, or a waste of time. 3. Do focus on changing the world, don’t focus on the money. If you provide...
ProGuy claims ‘Loan consolidation’ to be the most expensive keyword.
Casual browsing took me to a page where the page auther has claimed he know top 50 adsense keywords most of them are from “Loan Consolidation” Looking the list & the kind of compilation I don’t think it has any practicle value associated with it The list has few duplications with different CPC value of...
Anti-telemarketting
Nice blogs about how to handle those direct marketting calls I’m sure you too might have got such calls A complete hindi blog entryhttp://www.jitu.info/merapanna/?p=580 And the source of insipration, a flow chart to handle such callshttp://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html Enjoy
Google using hindi word for captcha… Globalization or sheer coincidence
While trying to reset password of a google account I came across this CaptchaIt reads CHOTA, which means small in Indian language So what you call this Captcha being decided in hyderabad office of google 😉
Spiderman Crashed The Internet…
Extracts from the latest issue of The Amazing Spider-man, #533 “I didn’t learn about the first side effect until well after the fact … Once the news hit the television networks … thirty million people went online and did simulatenous Google searches on Peter Parker … and crashed the entire internet.” “Including the porn sites.”...
Carry your website in your pocket…
“Many mobile phones today have more processing power than early Internet servers” Nokia thought why not to make use of the cellphone in everyhand today Nokia has ported the Apache webserver to Symbian, in order to enable mobile phones to serve content on the World Wide Web. The technique could also be used on Linux...
Hackers RAP
Nice One
Women More Likely to Infect PCs with Spyware….Aarghhhh
In a survey report of websense it has been revealed that $ men do more for personal surfing @ office. (like What I’m doing right now)This include weather, sports, investment/stock, and blogs$ 45% of women visits site containing spyware. (are they that much attracted towards those ads…) Web Security, Internet Filtering and Internet Security Software...
explorerdestroyer.com
I stumbled upon this site while surfing yesterdayhttp://explorerdestroyer.com/ People have found very good way to earn from google adsense.Lets attract people with firefox, lure them towards firefox(i dont say firefox is bad).People will click on the firefox ad, download, install & Kaboom, your adsense account got referal amount. But somehow IMHO its not a good...
Nice experience with 2K3 R2 Installation
I was trying to install Windows 2003 R2 on my machine (2.8Ghz, 1GB RAM, 80GB Disk) when I came across this wornderful errorIt says “Out of Virtual Memory” 🙂On a blank machine, before the installation is complete 😀 And the best part, the memory is so low for it to display a proper message on...
brain teaser
A clock shows 9 AM. After 479999999999989 hours what will it show ? More importantly, how will you solve this?
Google’s blogspot not recognizing Google
While writing my last blog I came across thisWhile doing “spell check” blogspot suggested my to correct spelling of “Google” & the suggested spellings were “Googol”, “Goggle”,etc. Have a look at the image 🙂 Other errors were in spelling of blog & blogspot 😀 I wonder google has not added its own name in the...
Want to remove URL from google’s cache
Good question!!!You want to remove your URL from google’s cache. One can change the page hosted by themselves & get it offline from internet, but we all know by now.Google is very intelligent & keeps a tab of your online activities So if you really want to remove a URL from google’s cache, this URL...
CON, PRN, AUX, NUL
Lots of stories read about folders or files with names CON, PRN, AUX, NUL etc cannot be created in Windows as these are reserved names for DOS devices.But there is a way to go around to create folders with these names.(If you REALLY REALLY want it by that name) STEP1: goto command prompt STEP2: type...
The securiteam NULL Terminated strip
A Nice One… http://blogs.securiteam.com/wp-content/null30mar06.jpg
Decipher this…
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A wonderfull blog I came across: Top 10 System Administrator Truths
These are actual truths in a life of a sysadmin Have a closer look at each pointhttp://www.misterorange.com/2005/12/top-10-system-administrator-truths.html Enjoy
mushkil hai apna mel priye, ye pyar nahin hai khel priye,
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Me Nathuram Godse Boltoy
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Swadesh
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LIBERATION OR SEXPLOITATION
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