How to create your own private IM?

private im One might have encountered lot of private and public chat and real-time communication services like Yahoo! Messenger, IBM Lotus Sametime, eBuddy, AIM etc in the internet as well as in the corporate networks. But most of them are not opensource solutions and you need rights to customize them to suit your own needs. Openfire IM previously known as WildFire and Jive Messenger is a great opensource alternative and a highly customizable solution to those applications  which can be used in corporate environments.

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November 26th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Microsoft releases Free Security Essentials

microsoft security essentials Microsoft today released Microsoft Security Essentials anti-malware service after a long wait completing its testing. The software is completely free and provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

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September 30th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

HCL Website compromised

website-hacked Over the past few years handful of Indian websites including (.gov.in, and .org) were defaced by Chinese, Pakistani hackers and government is struggling to keep the attackers away. "Ring-Of-Fire"(R0F) today revealed that HCL Store website was defaced with some screenshots. A Turkish hacker group has taken over the site last night replacing the main page with their one.

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September 20th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Kevin Rudd’s website compromised

Kevin Rudd website hacked Yesterday Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd’s website was compromised in protest against the Government’s new policies over Internet Censorship. Australian media reports the president’s website, www.pm.gov.au, was brought down at about 7.20pm (AEST) along with that of the Australian Communications and Media Authority, but both were back online about an hour later. It has been told that the new proposal to introduce internet filtering would block legal content, and take censorship to levels like that seen in China.

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September 11th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

How to run untrusted programs in Windows? – Part I

run programs safe Virus, Malwares, Worms or Trojans have become common these days as one can find them in softwares, email attachments, scripts from the web, pirated softwares and keygen etc. One has to trust Anti-virus programs mostly to find and delete them but sometimes it doesn’t happen in the way we think and the computer gets infected. No Anti-Virus system is fool proof. Sometimes programmers and users who use pirate programs try to run keygen and others which are 99.9% unsafe and highly untrusted. I have been contemplating with this problem for quite sometime and have come back with few solutions which I have found through Internet.

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August 28th, 2009 | Leave a Comment