Category Archives: Web Development

The Birth of Homail

Its been 16 years since Sabeer Bhatia transformed web communication with his innovative idea of HotMail.com to free users from computer based way of accessing emails to more device free web based native access to the service with web based email via Hotmail service.

The idea was an instant hit drawing more than 8.5million users world wide promoting a $400 million deal from Microsoft to acquire the service to offered it under the Microsoft umbrella.

Since then, many more players had made it into the play ground and arrival of Google’s Gmail service has left many other providers scouting for ways to keep their profit margin high with proper user response and satisfaction.

Arrival of Gmail

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In last couple of months, various court rulings have made “The Pirate Bay” website (thepiratebay.org) the most censored website of the world. Various ISP around the world from many countries like Belgium, Denmark, Finland, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Netherland, China, and the UK is blocking access to the website.

How to unblock / unlock and access The Pirate Bay website ?

One of the most effecting ways are using proxy to bypass the blocking via ISP. You can use many method of Proxy for the same. Below are the list of ways via which you can unblock and access thepiratebay.org

• Dedicated Proxy

The easiest go around is to use external web proxy, which are dedicated to replicate the pirate bay website via their own IP and domain, thus bypassing the primary block on the specific pirate bay domain and its IP address.

List of dedicated proxy -> http://about.piratereverse.info/proxy/list.html

• Web Proxy

One can use general web proxy like Hidemyass.com to access the website. There are hundreds of such web proxy available in the internet

• Local Proxy

Application like TOR can offer local proxy solution to bypass the blocking via channeling entire internet traffic via another proxy.

Sounds funny right ? But that is the case with Syria’s governmental officials as a recent hacking event of notorious hacking group anonymous revels.

33 out of 78 hack email accounts of Syrian officials and politicians were using 1234 or 12345 as their password.

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Gamers in Need for Speed World can spend USD 100 to own an exclusive machine.

Gamers will notice a few firsts in NFS World, when they feast their eyes on the stenciled logos on the front windshield and also the burnt titanium exhaust tips!

This virtual super car is up for sale for a physical $100 in Need for Speed World.

http://world.needforspeed.com/intro

Hollywood studios & the movie making companies are the top lobbyiest in the process bringing making file sharing practice under fire and stronger piracy law. Many Torrent tracker and such websites have suffered big personal loss via this process.

In order to show how guilty the law makers them self are, Torrent tracker TorrentFreak.com published an article showing proof of many leading Hollywood studios downloading pirated content them self.

A service called youhavedownloaded.com was used to track certain IP address belonging to major HollyWood studios to check their past history in file sharing. Result is surprising since the record shows how deeply the law makers them self are involved in breaking the law.

Often its quite hard to figure out that how many other website is ran by a particular a website owner or blogger, specially if the said person wishes to stay anonymous.

eWhoIS uses an interesting method to cross reference websites using Google Analytics or Adsense publisher ID to match and figure out the similar websites.

Most of the website owners of bloggers uses single Google adsense or  analytics account to monitor or monetize their website, and eWhoIS takes advantage of this for Reverse Adsense ID Lookup and Reverse Google Analytics ID Lookup.

In the above example, I have done an eWhoIS on a popular Windows news and discussion website WinVistaClub.com to find out what other website is ran by the owner of WinVistaClub.com. The tool detected and reported a list of 5 other website using the same adsense / analytics account.

Microsoft today have lost control over their main YouTube channel and it seems that the attacker have managed to delete all videos to replace them with couple of pranks.

YouTube.com/Microsoft

The channel page looks like this (taken as screenshot)

No official statement from any of the side, YouTube or MS is yet to comment how ever the big question comes now is whom to blame for the mishap ?

• Is it a MS employee losing credential to some spoof or phishing attack
• or may be MS computer got infected with malware to lose the credential from there
• or the big question of some security laps at YouTube’s end, which allowed the attacker to exploit and compromise the account

ICANN was created to make sure the internet integrate and smooth networking between countries and their network via maintaining a standard Domain Name Server operation.

DNS services helps to translate a domain name like ChotoCheeta.com to its IP address, which takes the user to the desired website and its content. Through out these years, ICANN was the sole body approve domain extension and allow certain registrars to issue the domain names to end users but that is about to chance.

ICANN is about pass a rule via which they would open up this area and would allow end user to chose or create any domain extension of gTLD they wish. Meaning now you can book, domain.anything-you-want.

Some see this as a welcome move to help new business to grow but if thinking deeply in today’s unsafe internet world, this would just open the flood gates for the phishing attacks since there would be virtual unlimited ways to mimic a original domain.