Pingsweeping – Intro & usage. Assume that you are a burglar and you want to steal. Then your first goal will be to identify your targets. Similarly, in the context of hacking, the first thing a hacker needs to do is identify the target hosts. In order to do so they send ICMP requests (pings) […]
Basically, Ransomware is everywhere these days. Why I titled this post as “Running Somewhere …” is because, there is nowhere to hide and no guaranteed recovery of data to which access is denied by Ransomware. Ransomware, somewhere, everywhere, nowhere.. So many rhyming words isn’t it 😜 Anyways, I was assigned to do a literature review on […]
Recently a friend of mine (Junior batch) was finding it difficult to understand an assignment that he was given based on 3D arrays in Java. So he asked me to have a look. After looking at the question I knew that it wasn’t going to be easy. But I was able to eventually rig out […]
This blog post revolves around an OAuth 2.0 based Facebook application that I have developed. This application aims at providing users of Facebook, an idea of their own profile(Few interesting things that they themselves wouldn’t know about their profile 🙂 ). In order to build this Application, I have made use of the following technologies. […]
Encryption – what it is and what it is not. Encryption is the process of converting readable plain text into cipher text that is unreadable/meaningless. The goal of doing so is to avoid unauthorized access to data.In order to access the encrypted data, one must ‘decypt’ data. Decryption is the process of converting cipher text […]
DISCLAIMER: PHISHING IS ILLEGAL. THIS BLOG IS FOR AWARENESS, SO THAT PEOPLE CAN BE AWARE OF SUCH PHISHING ATTACKS; HOW SIMPLE IT IS, YET HOW DANGEROUS IT COULD BE. SO DO NOT USE THIS KNOWLEDGE TO DO NEFARIOUS THINGS. THERE ARE MANY WAYS HOW YOU CAN BE CAUGHT AND CONVICTED. I DON’T TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY […]
When it comes to arch installation, post installation and regular usage there may be many problems that users will have to deal with. Interestingly there are not many posts/ forums that address these problems properly or clarify the solution clearly. So I feel obliged to write a post so that maybe one day someone will […]
As part of the ST2 project on the second year first semester we were assigned to develop a system for a car rental company. My team comprised of myself, Yusra Frouz and Kashif Roshen. This project was aimed at developing standalone applications with basic database CURD functionality. The functions that were developed by me include […]
As part of an assignment given to me in my second year, I had to develop a simulator that will simulate the behaviour of 2 sorting algorithms. This simulator covers the 2 basic algorithms : Bubble Sort and the Insertion Sort. The behaviour, temporary variables and the psuedo code along with how they get executed […]