Techcrunch got hacked again

TechCrunch got hacked 2nd time again within 12 hours. Yesterday TechCrunch itself posted a blog [1] confirming about the hacking, and it got again 30 minutes back as well. Hacker’s information is still unknown, and information is still being collected on how the site is compromised.

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Firefox 3.6 released

Firefox 3.6, the latest version of Mozilla’s popular browser, was released Thursday. With a lots of other improvements, this version features a 20 percent speed improvement, as Mozilla claimed. This release is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform.

“Firefox 3.6  is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development since early 2009 and contains …

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Tech Tip: SimpleHTTPServer — Simple HTTP request handler

Lots of people use web server for various tasks, but not all of them need a full-fledged web server which will take a lot of time to configure (if you are a naive) and will eat up system resources.

So, when you just need a webserver with GET and HEAD request handler, then you can use a module in python …

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Configure or Remove ETags in Apache/HTTP

There are various steps you can perform to optimize your site. One of them is to put some sort of cache/expiry mechanism so that if some client visits your site the second time then they need not to download the whole data, instead of that they just need to download the data which is changed respective of their last visit.…

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How-To : Block Anonymous Proxy sites in SQUID

Just configuring the proxy/squid and blocking few popularly known sites from your network is not just enough, because there are thousands of active anonymous proxy sites on the net, that your users can use to by-pass your proxy rules.

I too face this problem, when I configured proxy in my network using squid. I thought this is it, but to …

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