TECHNOPHILE
Technophile, meaning a person who is enthusiastic about new technology. He tries to get to know technical stuffs and most of the end up at nowhere. Here I am. I get locked off at many places while learning things. And I will post all of them here. If any of them are useful to any of you, I am more than happy.
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SSL/TLS for dummies part 1 : Ciphersuite, Hashing,Encryption
As a security enthusiast, I always fond of the working of SSL (TLS these days). It took me days to understand the very basic working of this complex protocol. But once you understand the…
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All about Robots – All you need to know about robots.txt
Today in this blog post we will discuss deeply about the Robot exclusion standard or simply robot.txt. Probably you know the definition, Robots.txt is a text file put on the website to tell…
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Cookies for dummies Part 3: Understanding security flags – Secure, HttpOnly and SameSite
In the previous articles of this series we discussed basic concepts of cookies. How to view and edit cookies, types of cookies such as session cookies and third party cookies, etc. If you…
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Cookies for dummies Part 2: Third-party tracking cookie
In the first part of the series, we have discussed the basics of a cookie. Recollecting the main points from the last blog post, we discussed: Cookies are tiny chunks of data stored…
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Cookies for dummies: Part 1 basic concepts
When I started studying about web applications, one of the topics where I spent a hell lot of time was cookies. Once you clearly understand the concept of cookies, I think you are…
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Riddling with WordPress permalink setup issues
WordPress is by far one of the best blogging platforms because of its easiness to use, easily available plug-ins and moreover the open source availability. I would later write an article on setting…
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How to fix Virtualbox error “Kernel driver not installed rc= 1908” on Ubuntu
What is virtualBox? VirtualBox is a free and open-source software currently being developed by Oracle Corporation. It is, when installed on a machine, allows you to run more than one operating system at…
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How to hide $username @ hostname in ubuntu linux terminal
Basic Linux commandline structure Basically it follows the format username @ hostname:working_directory ~:$ by default. Eg: something like: user@Ubuntu-pc:~/Desktop:~$. But sometimes you might want to hide these information, because of privacy reasons. You can actually do…
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How to fix Hashcat : clGetPlatformIDs(): CL_PLATFORM_NOT_FOUND_KHR error
What is Hashcat? Hashcat is one of the fastest password recovery tools available for free usage. It has various features such as bruteforce attack, WPA/WPA2 password cracking, md5 hash cracking and so on.…