BSNL has stopped EVDO and NIC data card booking from last one month. Myself and lot of other EVDO lovers still waiting for the booking to restart. This is more important and awaiting because new EVDO promotional offer rolling out countrywide on BSNL website offering EVDO card @750/month. This is cheapest price bsnl offering in comparison to other telecoms companies. You can expect this kind of things only with BSNL. This is how Sarkari system works. New promotional offer advertisement giving out in media but billing system no longer works from a month. Moreover, promotional offer time is ending on 31st March. It seems new system not going to work soon so nobody will be able to take advantage of this offer.

According to BSNL representative, their new DOT Software system stopped working in the first week of Feb and they have no information on when new system working again. Also, new billing software has lot of issues in billing and booking system. Myself received previous month bill two times with extended charges. It seems new system adopted without proper quality testing by authorities. BSNL employee don’t care what is happening.

Don’t experiment anything if your connection running smoothly and you don’t have specific need. Let me explain why!

There are two incidence happened with me that i never expected. You can not expect this kind of issue with a professional company.

1) I am using BSNL broadband from last 3 years and more. The  reason is i don’t have any alternative in my area. For a year, i used broadband 550 plan and quiet happy with speed and everything. After a year, i feel to change broadband 550 plan to unlimited broadband 999 (Now 750/-) plan due to large volume usage. I reached to BSNL office and give them written application for the change of plan. After one week of application submission my connection stopped working. Initially  i thought there may be a issue with DNS or temporarily server problem. Second day i called customer care and they suggest me to inquire on BSNL new market head office. I reached there and head office representative said to inquire on our area exchange office. Again, i reached my area exchange office but there were only blank chairs saying me why you came here, No body here to attend you. After three visits, i met with my local area office head and what he said was really surprising for me and may be for you too. My connection was cut. They presented me broadband termination order they received from head office. I matched termination order date with the plan change receipt i had. The dates were same. This was simply means they had released connection termination order in place of plan change order. After one week mental and physical practice i got why my connection stopped working and next one week to reconnect my connection. Till date my BSNL bills was paid and i have no due to pay BSNL. How i managed to reconnect my connection is another story. It’s much to learn how  BSNL works.

2) In Jan 2009, they launched new broadband scheme 799 that allow unlimited free calls on BSNL mobile and landline network. I finally decided to take advantage of this offer and again did a blunder mistake. After plan change i received next month bill just doubled. In inquiry, account department said they charged one month price as security deposit. My connection was booked without security deposit and without modem purchase or modem rental under a promotional scheme when i booked my connection 3 years back. The account person said, when plan change or system see any activity in account their software treat account holder as new account holder and add one month plan charge as security deposit in bill if security deposit not already paid by account holder. This is how their system works. After, three years they are charging a loyel customer security deposit even my connection was booked without security deposit. The story not stopped here. As i said, I never paid for modem till now because BSNL were giving modem free of cost at the time of my booking. Let’s see what happen.

Let’s come back to original story. If you have anything to share on BSNL EVDO please feel free to comment so other people take advantage of information.

Microsoft has released security update for all versions of Internet Explorer. According to Microsoft this release cover seven privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. These critical vulnerabilities can be dangerous. It allow execution of remove code using a web page specially designed for executing remove code on your machine. If you are using full admin rights then malicious code be more dangerous.

This security update cover all eight reported vulnerabilities and updates is released for all versions of Internet Explorer. This update is automatically installed on your machine if windows automatic update service is on otherwise you can download security update file for your OS and IE version.

Cryptography is the process of transforming digital information into an unintelligible form so that it can be sent over unsafe channel of communication.  The transformed data called cipher text that is in the form that nobody can understand.  The transformation process handled by a data key.  This key required to transform cipher text into original state. The stage of conversion of the digital data into unintelligible form is called Encrypting or Encoding.  Reconverting the encoded data back into the original form by the authorized person using the appropriate key is called decrypting or decoding. Below is basic diagram explaining encryption and decryption process.

ENCRYPTION:

Ascii Text Or Data –> Algorithm –> Secret Key –> Cipher Text

DECRYPTION:

Cipher Text  –> Algorithm –> Secret Key –> Original Data

Encryption Algorithm

• Transposition Cipher
• Code System
• Data Encryption Standard (DES)
• RSA Approach
  

I usually open adsense by typing adsense keyword in the search box rather then typing in browser address bar. Today strange behavior of google search result have been noticed. Search using key phrased “Google Adsense” result me to show google adsense on top of the result. The result appear with label “This site may harm your computer”. I guess this is due to false human update by StopBadware.org. Google uses StopBadware.org to flag search result that may harm visitor computer.

See screen shot below: (Click on the image for full view)

Suhosin is a security product released by Hardened-PHP to secure your PHP application. Hardened-PHP is founded by Stefan Esser, Christopher Kunz and Peter Prochaska from Germany with the primary goal to help php web developers, development organization to secure PHP web application. They also provide searvice to find out security holes in your php applicatn by examining application code.

Suhosin comes with two component that can work separately or in collboration. The first component called Suhosin patch that help you to secure your application from some low-lever vulnerabilities like bufferoverflows. The second component comes as PHP extension that reduce risk of other security flaws.

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Cuil ( Irish word meaning knowledge) is a new search engine launched by ex-Google engineers Anna Patterson and her husband Tom Costello on 27th July,2008. They claim that cuil have been indexed 120 billion we pages more then Google indexes and can index web pages much faster then Google. There are too much buzz in the industry related to cuil indexing algorithm and its search pattern

I tried search term (bala-krishna) and found my site already in Cuil index. All other site page that have this keyword also showing in result including social media profile page that Google does not show.

I just received “Not Acceptable Error while i tried to edit post in Word Press 2.5. Earlier, It was working fine but in the previous post i get annoying error when i tried to save and continue my article. But soon i realize cause of the error. Again, the error was due to apache web server mod-security rules SecFilterEngine On. The exact text of the error is “Error 406, Not Acceptable. An appropriate representation of the requested resource /wp-admin/post.php could not be found on this server.”

Here is the quick fix the error:

1. Download .htaccess file from your root directory or create one if not exist.
2. Add following Line in .htaccess file.
3. <IfModule mod_security.c>
   <Files post.php>
   SecFilterEngine Off
   SecFilterScanPOST Off
   </Files>
   </IfModule>
4. If <IfModule mod_security.c> line already in your .htaccess file then place only <Files..></Files> block inside if module block.
5. Save file and upload file to your host root directory.
6. All done..

What happen when you perform read/write disk operation like delete a folder, copying files. Take a closer look inside hard drive to see what exactly happen. This video show operations performed by a hard drive without cover.? Do not try to exercise this on your hard drive.? It may damage your hard disk permanently. Try at your own risk.

Two vulnerabilities has been discoverd in CubeCart 4.xx by Russ McRee that can be use by hackers to exploit website by cross-site scripting attacks. The search input string is not properly sanitised before passed to script for execution. This behaviour can be used by attacker to execute malicious script code in the browser to affect website. This may allow to hacker to acess administration by stealing cookies-based aunthentication scheme and destroy website.

Solution:

CubeCart has been released security patch to fix this problem that can be download from following location.

• CubeCart_4.1.1_pl1.zip
• CubeCart_4.2.1_pl1.zip

Also, CubeCart user can fix this manually by editing a single file. Please follow steps described below:

Open ini.inc.php and find at around line 134:

$data[$key] = $this->safety($val);
}

return true;

Replace with:

$data[$key] = $this->safety($val);
}

All done.

WordPress 2.5 RC1 available now for testing with a completely new flavor of blogging. This Release candidate will be available publicly after few days of user feedback.

New features at glance:

• Fully customizable dashboard organized in a way to provide user fresh information about the blog stats, latest post and latest comments. You are now free to use your favorite RSS News feed on dashboard.
• New fresh admin look and feel as well as user will be able to keep old classic look and feel.
• Added multi-file upload function to provide several file at once.
• One click plug-in upgrades and better tag management.
• Reorganize admin navigation for better navigation options.

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