Business Continuity Failures

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Uncategorized, Web Attacks, webdev

Everyone Loves Good Backup Systems to ensure in event of anything you are back to business ASAP. This however can be your biggest downfall if done wrong. As of Yesterday (2014-10-09),  WordPress Ready! Backup Plugin has this done wrong By Breaking two rules of the web: Logging Backup Process to a Web Viewable Interface on […]

Making Rabbits

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malware, Uncategorized

Rabbit Viruses a.k.a Fork Bombs are more of logically flawed programs than viruses though at times intentional most programmers have made this in one way or another. A common example is an infinite while loop i.e. a while loop that always returns a true condition. Looking at a couple example to put it into perspective […]

I call on thee stealth

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malware, Uncategorized

Stealth is basically acting in a covert way. As discussed previously. there could be three main kinds of stealth: Size Stealth Full Stealth Redirection Stealth Size Stealth In this case the Malware fakes the actual change in size of an infected file. What is done in the background : Saves and only shows true file […]

Malware Introduction

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malware, Uncategorized

Malware  is a broad term that refers to destructive software or that which has malicious intent. Malware can be classified based on their nature and functionality. The most common classifications are: Viruses – A program that attaches itself to another program or file to enable it to spread between different devices/ machines. Worms – This […]

Identifying Scam Sites (Payvilla Review)

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Uncategorized, Web Attacks

There have been a lot of links referring payvilla.com but are they real. This article is one to help identify scam sites. Common and Consistent Flaws No security certificate and it handles jobs and payments, well even facebook is merely a social network but they went through the trouble. Dingy ads at the bottom under […]

Extra Cleaning With CMD

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OS, Uncategorized, Windows

This article is a basic little fix for the regular windows problems. At times your flash behaves funny but when you  scan the antivirus claims it is clean. This is especially the case with new viruses. Its nice to do a quick check incase you suspect foul play for malware. So basically what we will […]

Eset Offline Updating

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OS, Uncategorized, Windows

In order to Update ESET offline. You need to gather update files for the current update version from a machine that is up to date and whose update cache has not been cleared as we will get it from the cache then transfer. This has been tested upto ESET4 Business Edition and may vary slightly […]

Installing Zurmo on Non-Apache Server

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Uncategorized, webdev

So I recently came across the zurmo CRM which is quite cool. However I noticed it only supports installation on Apache and IIS. Not all of us use this but we use similar servers like litespeed, nginx etc. So dug alittle deeper into the software , as of this writing im talking of version 2.8.2. […]

Bypass Windows 7 Activation

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OS, Uncategorized, Windows

There is usually a problem when using one of those keys that windows has black listed you get a screen as below during updates.  One method is to remove or block installation of the update Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications (KB905474). Another alternative is to download the ready made WGA removers or activators like Hazar’s windows […]

Demistifying FOPO

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Crypto Stuff, Uncategorized

What is FOPO? First of all it stands for :- Free Online PHP Obfuscator. Basically what obfuscation does is it makes Scripts or programs less friendly to the human eye to quickly understand. This particular one is available online here. To test it out and see just what it does i wrote a simple Hello […]