Posted on February 23rd, 2008 at 17:16 pm 4 Responses
Well, click fraud is the act of clicking on ads for the purpose of costing the advertiser money. Many web site owners are getting their Google AdSense account banned for invalid clicks or when they have done nothing wrong to deserve the punishment, or other stupid reasons as in case of such problems you would have counter-statistical information which with you could tackle the reason of your banning. Also, many AdSense folks are aware of this fraud and are sharing the same sentiment that this’s the one big problem that AdSense is facing. At this stage, a question should be present, how do we prevent being involved in this fraud? …of course, we need something like access logs or a click monitoring script to taking preventative measures against click fraud. Fortunately, there’s a couple of ads tracking scripts out there such as AdLogger, OpenAds and Asrep. Those scripts mainly generate reports so that we can see what happens with our AdSense Ads. Those scripts seems to give us considerably more information about the activity on our pages than AdSense reports do.
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Posted on February 18th, 2008 at 11:39 am One Response
There’s a ton software out there which can be used to remoting or accessing someone’s computer over the internet, using both legal and illegal way. This means, for example, that we can connect to another online computer from somewhere, and/or can copy and paste a file from a local computer to a remote computer and have access to all applications, files, and network resources as though we were in front of our computer. One of those populer tools is Virtual Network Computing (VNC) was written by AT&T Laboratories to allow a user complete control of a computer remotely. Also its can be done by using backdoors and other remote access tools suck as bo2k, sub7 and many more. Such tools are can be distributed inadvertently by users for entry into the network.
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, there’s a tool named Gmail Remote Control (GRC) to controlling a remote computer by sending remote commands or instructions via email to our Gmail account. Unfortunately, as the developer said, GRC available only for Windows XP computers, also requires a dependencies suck as msinet.ocx, but fortunately, its does not require any installation. Using GRC we can shutting down the PC, running a program and opening a webpage in our browser.
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Posted on February 5th, 2008 at 22:55 pm 4 Responses
The latest stable release of WordPress, version 2.3.3, has been released on yesterday, February 5th 2008. This release addresses an urgent security vulnerability found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog. WordPress 2.3.3 also contain some other minor bugs. Anyway, if you are interested only in the security fix, and just wanna patch your blog against the XML-RPC vulnerability, so you can overwrite the existing xmlrpc.php file of your WordPress blog with xmlrpc.php of WordPress 2.3.3 in your WordPress installation directory.
However, do a full upgrade would be better than replacing the xmlrpc.php file, it also will integrate a few minor bugs fixes implemented into our WordPress lamme weblog . Thanks you 
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Posted on February 5th, 2008 at 01:04 am 3 Responses
OpenBSD uses a tool called pkg_add(1) to update third-party software (called “ports”). Anyway, the OpenBSD base system has a different update process, and can occur in a couple of different ways, they’re Errata patches, CVS patches and Binary patches. Should be emphasized that binary patching is not supported by the OpenBSD project. However, patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as source code patches. These patches are usually applied by compiling and installing them onto the target system.
But remember, it is not always suitable for certain systems that do not have the OpenBSD compiler set installed for various reasons. Fortunately, excellent projects like Binpatch exist to fill this void. Binpatch uses the BSD make system to build binary patches. It employs a custom Makefile in order to create binary patches based on the instructions given in the OpenBSD patch files from OpenBSD Errata. In other word, Binpatch can automatically download the source patches published on www.openbsd.o..rrata.html, apply them, build them, and package the result into binary patches. A binary patch is simply a tarball (a .tar.gz or .tgz file) containing the pre-compiled files that are the result of applying the source code patch.
Posted on January 20th, 2008 at 13:49 pm 4 Responses
Snort is a lightweight open source NIDS (Network Intrusion detection system) was written over a weekend in 1998 by Martin Roesch. It is capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. Like another IDS tools suck as Tcpdump (a manual and primitive intrusion detection tool), Snort uses the libpcap library to capture packets. But Snort different from Tcpdump. Snort more focused on the security applications of packet sniffing. Some distinguishing difference between Snort and Tcpdump are Snort doesn’t lookup host names or port names, which is a function that Tcpdump can perform. Snort has the packet payload inspection feature and Tcpdump doesn’t, etc.. .
However, Snort can be operated in three primary different modes, Packet Logger mode, Sniffer mode, and Network Intrusion Detection (NIDS) mode. The Packet Logger mode will record the network traffic on a file. Then, the Sniffer mode will read the network traffic and print them to the screen. Lastly, the NIDS mode will record the network traffic matching security rules. When running in this mode, the administrator needs to specify the name of a rules file .
In the future, i will post my writing on this blog about some steps in installing and compiling Snort on OpenBSD 4.2. Yep, i am currently using OpenBSD 4.2 in a *small-lamme-server* on my stupid home network , so be patient okay? …thanks you .
