Successfully Blocking Ads (at OS level)
To share back with community. If you never knew how to properly block advertisements stuffed into your face, there is very efficient way to block most of ads served online. It is not really blocking, more of a circumvention: by using DNS and built-in features of our own operating system, we can re-direct ad requests [...]
Social Spying Made Easy
The latest invention in the world of Social Spying comes as a addon for your favorite browser, Mozilla’s own Firefox. Addon home-brewed by Eric Butler enables you to sniff your immediate neighbors’ activity on Social Network websites, such as Flickr, Twitter, Panoramio, and of course infamous Facebook.
What Is a BotNet and How Does It Happen
What would be a BotNet and what dangers does it impose on you, end user; where does it originate and how does it propagate? Viruses and Bots hide from anti-virus programs, Mariposa Bot Virus was discoverable / suspected by only two out of forty one anti-virus solutions at the time it originated.