Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Monday, April 6th, 2009
Back in 2003 there was a military experiment that was intented to measure how weak is the human link in the security chain in the army.
The experiment was as the following, an experienced person was given a military phone, his mission was to find out as many details as possible ...
Posted in General | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
I ran into the wikiscanner, which I found very useful.
Using Wikiscanner you can check out who edited values on wikipedia.org while filtering on IP ranges or organization names.
Another interesting thing about Wikiscanner is the ability to add IP ranges to their list and identifying them as a specific organization.
Meaning, you ...
Posted in General | No Comments »
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Two of the most common Toolbars used by millions of people are Google Toolbar and Alexa Toolbar.
Google Toolbar offers Pagerank information of every website we visit.
That means, if we have Google toolbar installed, and we type yahoo.com in the address bar (without using google's search engine), Google will still know ...
Posted in General | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Every person that wishes to buy a Domain Name has to do it through a domain registrar.
Upon registration, the registrar asks for the following Information:
- Full Name
- Business Name
- Telephone Number
- Home/Work Address
- E-Mail Address
Almost every registrar will verify in one way or another that all of the details you ...
Posted in General | No Comments »
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
When we visit websites online, every page we see, every picture, every Media file and every script we load using Internet Explorer, is saved in a particular directory so that we could load it directly from our computer instead of reloading it online from the website.
This cache can be found ...
Posted in General | No Comments »