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Botnets The main drivers for botnets are for recognition and financial gain. The larger the botnet, the more ‘kudos’ the harder can claim to have among the underground community. The bot herder will also ‘rent’ the services of the botnet out to third parties, usually for sending out spam messages, or for performing a denial of service attack against a remote target. Due to the large numbers of compromised machines within the botnet huge volumes of traffic (either email or denial of service) can be generated. However,...

Htaccess File Explained Intro Hypertext Access, commonly shortened to htaccess, is a configuration file which controls the directory it is placed in and all the subdirectories underneath it. It’s an incredibly useful feature which allows webmasters to control how many aspects of their website works. You can redirect pages,...

First thing to keep in mind: If your computer hasn't crashed yet, it will in the future! So instead of waiting for fate to strike, take some precautions now: 1) BACK-UP! Buy some decent DVD-R discs and put everything useful in them. When you have more useful stuff, backup again. Do this often. 2) Keep your computer healthy. Use an...

So say somehow somewhere we ended up choosing a target to start wreaking havoc upon. All we need is an IP Address. Theres plenty of papers out there that go into how to obtain an IP Address from the preferred mark of your choice. So I'm not going to go into that subject. Alright so say we got the targets IP Address finally. What do...

How to edit meta tags of audio and video files using VLC Player. What are meta tags..?? In simple words, Audio and Video files contains some information about Title, Artist, Album, Genre, Date, Publisher, and more.. There are many meta tag editor available. But here is the way to edit them with VLC media player which is very popular...

List of Some Basic BASH Commands:- I'd like to point out to everyone before reading that this list is very far from completion and does not include all of the extendable possibilities. When I say this, nmap isn't a built-in command until you install nmap. These commands just stand for those that come with a Linux/UNIX BASH installation. A adduser...

Misconceptions About Computer Worms And An Insight Into There Creation Intro There are a few misconceptions that some members have about Internet Worms and their behavior.all too often i hear people saying "Oh it looks like you have been infected by some kind of worm" and almost 99% of the time they are completely wrong. So here goes...

Q: What is hacking? A: The terms "hack" are also used to refer to a modification of a program or device to give the user access to features that were otherwise unavailable, such as DIY circuit bending. It is from this usage that the term "hacking" is often incorrectly used to refer to more nefarious criminal uses such as identity theft,...