History of Domain Names

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Yet another infographic. Well, Infographics are much better way to grasp the information, especially if they’re well made. This cool infographic from Tech King lists out some of the most important events in the history of Domain Names.

Pakistan ranks 55th with only 46 thousand domain names in Top countries for domain registration.

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History of Online Gaming

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Yet another infographic. Well, Infographics are much better way to grasp the information, especially if they’re well made. This cool infographic from Silver Oak lists out some of the most important events in the history of the internet gaming.

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Microsoft & Google Pakistan Defaced by Turkish hackers

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MarkMonitor Inc, USA based company who is responsible for over 110 domains including google.com.pk, microsoft.com.pk, paypal.pk, domain control panel hacked, last night and some sites are still down as of (24th November, 2012)

Google Pakistan’s home page (google.com.pk) is “hacked” by Turkish hackers putting a message which says “Pakistan Downed”. Paypal site is still down and showing this:-

turkeyhack

WHOIS record of those hostings point to some free hosting service as DNS providers:-

dns1.freehostia.com
dns2.freehostia.com

List of sites affected:-

  1. biofreeze.com.pk
  2. blackstone.pk
  3. blogspot.pk
  4. itunes.pk
  5. gmails.pk
  6. zynga.com.pk
  7. chrome.com.pk
  8. chrome.pk
  9. visa.com.pk
  10. bx.com.pk
  11. abbvie.com.pk
  12. abbvie.pk
  13. cgma.pk
  14. chacos.com.pk
  15. cimacpa.pk
  16. cisco.pk
  17. ciscosystems.pk
  18. blogspot.com.pk
  19. cpacima.pk
  20. cpaintl.pk
  21. cpaldglobal.pk
  22. cpalwglobal.pk
  23. drivealliance.pk
  24. eastman.biz.pk
  25. eastman.net.pk
  26. eastman.org.pk
  27. ebay.pk
  28. monatin.pk
  29. everyblock.pk
  30. youtube.pk
  31. 3com.web.pk
  32. hp.web.pk
  33. revlon.pk
  34. streetwear.pk
  35. windows7.pk
  36. windows8.pk
  37. windowsrt.pk
  38. yahoo.pk
  39. yahoomaktoob.pk
  40. zynga.pk
  41. firstdirect.com.pk
  42. flickr.pk
  43. fordgofurther.pk
  44. gbuzz.pk
  45. gmailbuzz.pk
  46. gmail.pk
  47. googlebrowser.com.pk
  48. google.pk
  49. googlebuzz.pk
  50. googlechrome.com.pk
  51. abbviepharmaceuticals.pk
  52. abbviepharmaceuticals.com.pk
  53. hewlettpackard.pk
  54. hexagon.com.pk
  55. hsbcamanah.biz.pk
  56. hotmail.com.pk
  57. hpcloud.com.pk
  58. hp.com.pk
  59. hpscalene.com.pk
  60. hsbc.biz.pk
  61. hsbcadvance.com.pk
  62. hsbc.pk
  63. hsbcpremier.com.pk
  64. hsbcprivatebank.biz.pk
  65. hsbcamanah.com.pk
  66. hsbcdirect.com.pk
  67. hsbcnet.com.pk
  68. hsbcpremier.biz.pk
  69. hsbcpremier.pk
  70. hsbcprivatebank.com.pk
  71. investdirect.biz.pk
  72. investdirect.com.pk
  73. ipod.pk
  74. jaiku.pk
  75. kellyservices.com.pk
  76. maktoob.pk
  77. markmonitor.pk
  78. microsoftsmartglass.com.pk
  79. microsoftsmartglass.pk
  80. xboxsmartglass.com.pk
  81. xboxsmartglass.pk
  82. msn.org.pk
  83. windowsstore.pk
  84. windowsstore.com.pk
  85. opteron.com.pk
  86. parkplaza.pk
  87. paypal.pk
  88. postini.pk
  89. scalene.com.pk
  90. schwab.biz.pk
  91. schwab.com.pk
  92. sonystyle.com.pk
  93. streetwear.com.pk
  94. theworldslocalbank.com.pk
  95. genapp.pk
  96. genapp.com.pk
  97. generationapp.pk
  98. generationapp.com.pk
  99. windows.com.pk
  100. windows7.com.pk
  101. windows8.com.pk
  102. 3com.biz.pk
  103. 3com.fam.pk
  104. 3com.net.pk
  105. 3com.org.pk
  106. gchrome.com.pk
  107. aicpacima.pk
  108. apple.pk
  109. google.com.pk
  110. microsoft.pk

FTP automation on Linux

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Ever wanted FTP backups and automation for keeping backups of important file on off-peak time. I always love automation, so machines can do things automatically and help humans 🙂 Read the rest of this entry


Securing Linux for Physical Access

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Physical access is everything, it is almost impossible to prevent machine access/password break if somebody else got physical access to some Linux machine.

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Mount point busy or already mounted error – CentOS

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Recently when my servers HDD dead, data center installed a new HDD keeping orginal HDD as secondary so that i can copy data back to new HDD.

I tried to mount the HDD normal way, but got the error:-

[root@server78 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/hda
 
 Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
 Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
 /dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
 /dev/hda2              14       19457   156183930   8e  Linux LVM
 
 [root@server78 ~]# mount /dev/hda2 /tmp/mnt
 mount: /dev/hda2 already mounted or /tmp/mnt busy

The old drive is lvm. you were trying to mount it like it was an ext3 filesystem. I have listed what i did below so you can see it.

Now we need to check the old disk is using LVM ? type:-

[root@server78 ~]# pvs
PV         VG         Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
/dev/hda2  VolGroup01 lvm2 a-   148.94G 32.00M
/dev/hdb2  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   114.94G 96.00M

So now we know our second hard disk VolumeGroup name is “VolGroup00”, now we can mount it like:-

[root@server78 ~]# mount /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 /mnt

That’s it, you can see the folders in /mnt/, Edit/copy as you like.