No! This is not an article to help or encourage anyone trying to hijack a domain. Rather, this is like an eye-opener and a wake-up call for all those ignorant web-masters to secure their website domains.From Wiki: Domain hijacking or domain theft is the process by which registration of a currently registered domain name is transferred without the permission of its original registrant, generally by exploiting a vulnerability in the domain name registration system.
Related Read: Difference Between Hacking and Hijacking
Any website consists of 2 parts - a Domain Name System (or DNS) and a web-hosting server (where files reside). What this means is, in reality domain name and web server are 2 completely different entities and are integrated together before the website goes live. When someone registers a domain name (say example.com) with a domain name registrar (like GoDaddy or Namecheap), he gets to use a control panel provided by the registrar. Using this control panel, he would have to point his domain to his web servers which might be hosted elsewhere. Now whenever an Internet user types “example.com”, the domain name “example.com” is resolved to the target web server...
Using any PC over a period of time means that there will be lot of addition and deletion of files to and from the hard drive. Installing and uninstalling applications, moving files around the drive and much more. What all these results in, is fragmentation of your hard disk. Fragmentation means that files and their data are stored in an unconventional manner, requiring your drive to spend longer searching for and loading the information.
DiskRescue is the effective solution...
"USA think they controlling and managing internet by their access, but they don't. We control and manage internetby our power. So do not try to stimulation Iranian people to ..... Now which country in Embargo list? Iran? USA?"There is a history between Iran and Twitter. It was well noted and covered in the media that Twitter was used as a tool during the Iranian election protests. The US government actually intervened to assure that Twitter was available to the protestors in Tehran and around the country. This attack may be an act of reprisal from groups who were not happy with the role that Twitter played during the protests. This is not the first time Twitter is facing security issues. Few months back some hacker had broken down into their Twitter admin account and even hacked their email...
VLC player has been one of the most popular media playing solution, mainly responsible to bridge the gap between the official playback solutions of Apple and Microsoft and this news comes as a shocker. The VLC Player is being developed entirely by volunteers and VideoLAN acknowledges that they lack the man-power to carry out further development of Mac version.
The most interesting part of the press release is this -
Finally, we have a few issues, since Apple doesn't want us on the Mac platform and is blocking us a lot, and refuses to explain why.This is ridiculous. Why Apple doesn't want VLC on Mac? They don't like anyone doing better job than Apple? Anyway, all we can do is hope for the development to come back on track with some funding (from...
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