Monthly Archive:: August 2016

Best, free, intrusive and Windows only

I happen to know a bunch of people that don’t spend money on software, even if we’re talking antivirus programs and who frankly don’t like spending money on anything computer related unless it’s really necessary for them to work with. Even their Windows is OEM so they didn’t actually think they paid for it. All

Bulk downloads using wget

I recently had to download a lot of ZIP files (14848)  that were in a txt file and which although they had the same directory path couldn’t have been downloaded using recursive wget because the server had the directory indexes disabled and trying to pull with recursive wget resulted in a 403 forbidden error. So I

Full Path Disclosure from Kaspersky

If you’d go now to the Kaspersky Cybermap website from a country other than an English speaking one, you would be prompted with a PHP notice and a PHP warning which cause a full path disclosure on Kaspersky’s website: Apparently the cybermap script is supposed to pull the verbiage related with languages other than English

There’s no war in dating

There’s a place where Russia and Ukraine will always get along despite the political differences and the war they are engaged in nowadays. And that place is the dating sites and mail-order bride sites:  Anyhow, them babes look great, but to be honest I was pretty intrigued by this site’s hookup line…

Where Android beats Windows

For quite a while Windows was seen as the worst operating system ever in terms os security. There were so many vulnerabilities in the proprietary source code built by Microsoft that in the early 2000’s in the dawn of botnets a lot of people thought Windows is doomed. And if that weren’t enough the third party