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ZeroDayScan in an online scanner which can scan your site for the following issues: Detects Cross Site Scripting attacks (XSS) Detects Hidden Directories and Backup Files Looks for Known Security Vulnerabilities Searches for SQL Injection Vulnerabilities Automatically detects zero day bugs Performs Website Fingerprinting Once the service finishes scanning your site for issues and vulnerabilities, [...]
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Planning on starting a project with REST webservices? You’ve gotta check out this new framework called FRAPI. This API framework built in PHP eases development of REST webservices, by allowing you to add actions, responses and even create users and assign API keys to them for accessing the services you create. Here’s a video showing [...]
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Most of us just write applications to be deployed on a webserver without thinking about what to do when the server becomes overloaded. What happens in most cases is that the application would go trying to run itself on every request, and on a heavily loaded system, it just goes on the aggravate the problem, [...]
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Just a quick heads up in case you missed out on the announcement. The Bangalore PHP Meetup’s happening this month on the 24th. For a change, I’m not involved much in the organization of this event. Indus Khaithan took care of the venue arragements and Harsha MV’s taken up co-ordinating with the potential speakers and [...]
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I had picked up a BSNL 3G connection a few weeks back hoping for a faster internet connectivity on the move on my N900. The N900 being a mobile computer, I’m able to do most of the work on that without having to boot up the computer. It’s also an advantage having a fast connectivity [...]
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I was first introduced to this service from the folks over at Mobikwik when they sent me a email about their service. I actually used this when I needed to do a quick recharge of my BSNL and Tata Docomo connections while I was travelling. The service is pretty easy to use. All you need [...]
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Google has released a Web Application Security Scanner over at Google Code. This can be used to scan you site for possible security issues which might be lurking around. Skipfish prepares an interactive site-map for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. This scanner is easy to setup on an [...]
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I’ve been tinkering around with Python on the N900 and this one one phone hackers will love. You can make the phone do almost anything you want if you know a little bit of scripting. I picked up a bit of python to try making a call blocker which was missing for the N900, and [...]
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Here’s another article from our Guest Blogger Dr. Abhishek Puri on Opera. You can read his previous article here and here Open Office has gone through various incarnations being heavily promoted by Sun. The best part is that it is a free open source software and be ported across different platforms. But that’s where the “good [...]
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Here’s another article from our Guest Blogger Dr. Abhishek Puri on Opera. You can read his previous article here. Shifting to Linux is fraught with taking a decision in the unknown many a times. This was my feeling when I first pestered with a barrage of questions on the forums as a “n00b”. We are [...]
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Vinu Thomas is the editor of My Portable World and VT's Tech Blog. As a Technical Architect, he works on PHP and opensource technologies by day and is a mobile enthusiast and blogger. You can follow him on Twitter @vinuthomas and Google+ 
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