Monthly Archives: January 2007

How to edit any Webpage on the fly using JavaScript

OurPicks have an interesting piece of code snippet on their forums. A simple JavaScript code that lets you edit any webpage, static or dynamic on the fly
Let us try this:
Step # 1: Go to any website. Let us go to Slashdot.org
Step # 2: Delete everything in the address bar
Step # 3: Paste the following JavaScript [...]

Follow up conversation with the London based Nigerian Spammer

Spammer Watch : DAY # 1 
So, I followed up with our London based Nigerian spammer by emailing him that I am indeed interested in proceeding with this “financial transaction”. I pretend to be a Mr. Brandon Hurley based in the UK. So, here is my first email to Mr. Peter Fischer, our friendly neighbourhood spammer

Spammer [...]

Awesome redesign of MySpace

DeviantArt has created an awesome concept layout of MySpace incorporating a web 2.0 theme.
Check out the Current Design of MySpace vs

Concept layout of MySpace put forth by DeviantArt

Slot Machine suffers from the Blue Screen of Death

The supposedly indestructuctible slot machines, turns out are prone to failure like any other machine. The inquirer reports this Blue Screen of Death on a slot machine at the International Casino Exhibition in Earl’s court, London.
The machine was built by Italian Motherboard maker Zest, demonstrating its latest “high-reliability” computer designs. The machine was built on [...]

Analysis of Spam Thru botnet

Mark Sunner, Chief Security Analyst at MessageLabs was among the many security analysts watching one Trojan called “Spam Thru”, a piece of malware designed to send spam from an infected computer, at the turn of last year. Spam Thru represented an expontential jump in the level of sophistication and complexity of these botnets, harnessing a 70,000 [...]

Nigerian Scammer moves to London, England

The most visible form of fee fraud today is the Nigerian Letter or 419 fraud. A typical letter claims to come from a person needing to transfer large sums of money out of the country or from a lottery company. As the Nigerian letter has become well known to potential targets, the gangs operating the [...]

Spammers now using TinyURL to flood comments

Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages. While the most widely recognized form of spam is email spam, spam in blogs is becomming huge these days along with search engine spam and mobile phone messaging spam.
Spamming is economically viable because advertisers have no operating costs beyond the management of [...]

Software Wars: Free software, software sharing and software freedom

The current state of the free software movement by comparing it with Hackers’ Ethic
1. Always yield the Hands-On Imperative! Access to computers - and anything else which might teach you about the way the world works - should be unlimited and total.
2. All information should be free.
3. Mistrust Authority - Promote Decentralization.
4. Hackers should be [...]

Halo 3 Beta Invites on all Crackdown Copies of Xbox 360

The Xbox Live Halo 3 multiplayer public beta, which is a pre-release version is scheduled for availability in spring 2007 exclusively on Xbox 360. This beta also represents an opportunity for gamers to give information that will help in the development of Halo 3. Through the resulting feedback, Bungie will be able to further refine [...]

How to restore the Visual mode in WordPress 2.1

Wordpress.com recently released the latest and greatest version of WordPress v 2.1. The much maligned Rich Text Editor in Wordpress has been significantly upgraded with an easy tab option which allows you to switch between a Visual mode and a much more comfortable Code mode.Wordpress uses TinyMCE for text input.

Now, say you switched over to [...]