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General Information About Facebook Security

09 August 2010

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If you want to look at the history of social networks, there has been no other social networking platform that has come close to the amount of people and hysteria that Facebook has caused. It is a worldwide phenomenon, to say the least, and it has revolutionized the way people communicate, spend their leisure time and they way they see the...

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Site Security Vs Site Performance

02 August 2010

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These days, the Internet has become the most powerful and versatile tool that the world has ever seen. People use the Internet for a myriad of different purposes. The Internet can be used for business, educational and recreational purposes. It can also be used for cultural exchange and even shopping. This is the main reason why there are websites...

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Twitter Security Dos And Don’Ts

28 July 2010

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Tags: twitter, twitter hack, twitter security

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Twitter is a social networking site that lets people update status messages within 140 characters. Microblogging, or “tweeting” as they are called by users, has dramatically changed the way people communicate, both in good ways and in bad. Twitter accounts are open to the public, but users have the option of making their accounts private....

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The Storm Botnet

27 July 2010

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The Storm Botnet, also known as the Storm worm botnet, is perhaps the biggest botnet in the world. The Storm Botnet uses a network of zombie computers that are controlled by unknown individuals for a number of different purposes. The Storm Botnet uses a Trojan Horse called the Storm worm to infect computers, further adding to the number of...

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Introduction To Phishing

24 July 2010

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Tags: phishing, security, russian hackers

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Phishing is one of the biggest dangers that computer users face. Phishing is basically an illegal act of trying to obtain someone else’s sensitive information like credit card numbers, passwords and usernames. This is usually accomplished using what is known as social engineering. The person attempting to phish usually poses as a credible entity...

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King Api Monitor

19 July 2010

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King Api Monitor, Is a software for bug tracking and Reverse Engineering with very special and rare features as compared to similar software.

This program will monitor the running software commands and allow you to use its values in a very easy to use and user friendly GUI. It also has other special features such as the capability to find...

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How To Change The Color Of The Bsod

28 May 2010

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This is quite a funny tip for me, this is how to change the color of the Blue Screen, to be a Red Screen for an example, for my knowledge, this only works with 2000/XP/2003. You can try on 7 or Vista though, post in the comments below if it worked.

To change the colors, go to the Windows folder, by going to %systemroot%, and open the system.ini...

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Inside Windows Product Activation - Algorithm Explanation

12 May 2010

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Inside Windows Product Activation

A Fully Licensed Paper

July 2001

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http://www.licenturion.com...

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Jquery + Prototype or mootools or ....

29 April 2010

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Some of you might sometimes have the need to develop using both JQuery and Prototype and this can be a true pain to figure out how to do properly so I'll share in this entry how you should do this and what problems I faced so far whilst doing it.

First of all JQuery has a "compatibility mode" called jQuery.noConflict you can read...

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10 Best Minimal / Low-Footprint Linux distros

17 March 2010

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Sometimes we all need just a barebones/lightweight linux distro for simple tasks or for embedded devices, here is a list of the Top 10 as gathered from this source: