by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jun 29, 2010 | Server Administration
DNS is for the Internet, what oxygen is for life. Though we constantly use it, we are unaware of its presence. DNS has come a long way since Stanford Research Institute’s Network Information Center (SRI-NIC) maintained a file called hosts.txt which contained...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jun 28, 2010 | Server Administration
Talk about powerful processors and the names Opteron and Xeon jump to mind. These are the processors of choice of Datacenters around the world, with specifications that sound like they belong in a sci-fi movie. All that processing power comes at a cost though. Energy....
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jun 25, 2010 | Server Management, Technical Support
Every other day, a new web-host joins the race. The numbers are kept in control, only by the fact that there are others who quit, or who are acquired by another company/person. New hosts find it harder to succeed, given the monetary investments and expertize it takes...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jun 24, 2010 | Server Administration
Many hackers prefer to design and use their own tools to search for and attack vulnerable sites, but a majority of them use various exploitation “kits”. Some of the most common ones are Zeus, Neosploit, Eleonore and Justexploit. The developers of these...
by admin | Jun 23, 2010 | Server Administration
Consider ‘Cyberspace’ as a battleground where computers and networks are saved or compromised everyday. Until recently, the struggle had been more or less equal, but now a new and a more powerful weapon is in use – The Rootkit. Rootkit is the perfect...
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