Why hack a calculator? So you’re a programmer deciding where to invest your energy. What’s a better idea: the latest Apple device, where hot new games can mean big bucks and millions of users, or a calculator introduced 10 years ago? Most go for iPhones and iPods. But another community thrives in its own way. […]
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You can not limit a single HTTP request’s connection speed. You can limit individual hosts to some bandwidth rate. To limit a group of hosts, then you must use a delay pool . For example: acl only128kusers src 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 delay_pools 1 delay_class 1 3 delay_access 1 allow only128kusers delay_access 1 deny […]
The massive Zbot botnet that spreads the treacherous Zeus banking Trojan has been launching a wave of relatively convincing phishing attacks during the past few days — the most recent of which is a phony warning of a mass Conficker infection from Microsoft that comes with a free “cleanup tool.” The wave of attacks began […]
Hacking the ESX 3i Server Root Password In case you every are called in to manage an ESX 3i server, but nobody know the root password, here an easy way to ‘fix’ this challange. Again when the ESX 3i server boots and is on the main boot loader screen, hit shift-O In the advanced option […]
This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for October 2009. With the release of the bulletins for October 2009, this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued October 8, 2009. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification. For information about how to receive automatic notifications […]
Registry Instructions for NoDriveTypeAutoRun One interesting feature of NoDriveTypeAutoRun is that you can set the value in either HKLM** or HKCU. If you go overboard and configure both, then the Local_Machine over-rides the Current_User. 1. Type ‘regedit’ in the Start Search dialog box. 2. Navigate to this path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer 3. If necessary create a dword […]
Block writing to USB Removable Disks To block your computer’s ability to use USB Removable Disks follow these steps: 1. Open Registry Editor. 2. In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlStorageDevicePolicies 1. Create the following value (DWORD): WriteProtect and give it a value of 1. Note: As always, before making changes to […]
Block usage of USB Removable Disks To block your computer’s ability to use USB Removable Disks follow these steps: 1. Open Registry Editor. 2. In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesUSBSTOR 1. Locate the following value (DWORD): Start and give it a value of 4. Note: As always, before making changes to […]
Recently Orkut updated it’s security feature and disabled Right-click on photos of friend’s album. So this makes it difficult to copy photos from Orkut. It’s a new security update made by Orkut to prevent people from copying photos from Orkut and misusing it. How To Copy Locked Photos From Orkut? Yes it’s still possible to […]