Aug 01

Guess you know what is DNS ?
If you don’t know what it is …
Its Domain Name System. All the servers will have some set of numbers to identify them (IP), to recognize them easily we give them a name (domain name) and for internet to work, DNS maps these names to numbers. (Duh, read wikipedia for more info)

For the techie folks who know whats DNS, you might have missed this news. There was a bug. It was just a bug when people din’t know. Few days before , its was a problem as bad people know that it exists. And couple of days before, it became a major problem as bad people got to know how to tame the bug and exploit it. And today, its frigging Pain in the A** as our dumb ISPs are not fixing their DNS servers.

Well, the bug is that bad people can manipulate DNS lookups. Which literally means, when you open Google.com, then can send you to Yahoo.com too. Search engines need not be a problem, but if they manipulate DNS of a bank … the answer is … somebody is gonna get hurt real badddddd

So, I request you to check (@Doxpara) whether your DNS server is vulnerable to such bug or not, and if it is, change it to OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220) and stay secure. As of today, I’ve tested BSNL and Airtel DNS servers (Chennai) and both of them are vulnerable. Guess, we need to take a huge rod and shove it up into someone’s a** and make them fix their DNS servers so that we can stay secure.

For extra-super-terrestial technical folks, I need not tell you about this, but incase you missed it, check (@Securebits) the exploiter released.

Jul 06

I love rediff. I love it a lot. I’m aware that I’m contradicting myself. There are loads of posts where I’ve accepted the fact that I hate rediff. But, come on. Do you think life would be great with no stupid thing around you to make fun of ? or atleast do you think that life would rock in monochrome ? Rediff brings lots of colors of my day, every damn day. Well, I should tell that its not rediff, but its rediff comments which do that.

If any of you guys have seen Southpark, and loved/hated the character Eric Cartman in it, yeah, trust me, You will love comments on rediff. About Cartman, You’ve to read this at Wikipedia. For the lazy folks, here are the tags for you from the content - fat, mean, immature, brat, aggressive, cunning, sociopathy, theorizing, sadistic. Each of these tags can be used to tag most (atleast 80-90%) of the comments at Rediff. Here are few examples of the comments.

  • “Power of Bhudhism! Its time India give up following Rama and follow the reformist Budha!”

Guess the context of the above comment. Take a minute and try to come up with some thoughts about it. Try to go beyond your wildest imagination. Uhmm, Dalai lama, or Tibet issue or Chinese ? Ah, no. You are completely wrong. This is a comment on India Vs Srilanka Asia Cup Final match, where India has lost. This great guy came up with theory that in match between Buddha and Rama, Buddha won.

Well, other that the above intelligent comment, the other comments include, Sachin is God. Dada is God, Dhoni is a dhobi, Uthapa Sux, Bring back Dravid, Sehwag cant become Sachin, and Karma. Yeah, you read it correct, karma. One guy thinks that Indian govt supports Srilankan govt to kill innocent people so, we lost Asia Cup final.

  • “Rajanikanth has a deep and abiding respect for human life… unless it gets in his way. There is no such thing as global warming. Rajanikanth was cold, so he turned the sun up. Rajanikanth can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night. “

Now, another comment. Guess the context of this great comment. Sivaji movie ? Tamil movie ? South Indian Movie ? South Indian Movie stars ? Hehe, Na. It was a comment on a post where Amitabh praised Smita Patil’s son for his performance in “Jaane tu .. ya jaane na”.

Few other comments on this post include, “BJP Should have supported the deal”. No wonder why he was talking about Nuclear deal on this post. And another guy thinks that Rediff dint receive money from Aamir Khan, so they are praising Smita Patil’s son here. Ultimate Genius.

I found these comments in last one hour. Now, expect the fun you can have when you read rediff comments regularly. But, do remember, over dosage of anything is not good for health. You might even lose your sense of humour because of the immature nature of the comments. So, whenever you are bored, or whenever you feel like you are dumb or stupid, you know where to go.

  • Well, for the final touch, here is a great topic in Get Ahead of Rediff titled “I love my maid - should I leave my wife ?”

And for your information, this topic made to the front page of Rediff. Dont forget to read comments on it, especially this one to know the nature of guys posting comments there. After reading few ultra-stupid comments on rediff and few ultra-ultra non-sense articles like this, now I feel like doing something like Cartman. “Screw you rediff, I’m going home !”

Feb 02

Here are the keywords for the story.

  • Bihar
  • Students
  • Angry
  • Law
  • Exams
  • Rampage
  • Boycott
  • WTF ????

Here is the story.

Hundreds of law students in Bihar went on a rampage. Because of some issues while conduction of exams.

  1. No water
  2. No shade
  3. No quiet environment
  4. No white papers
  5. No chairs
  6. No tables

None of the above is the reason for those students’ anger. The reason is …

“They are denied to carry books, copies and mobile phones into the examination hall to COPY write their exam”

Yeah, sounds crazy, but that is the reason. This sounds even more crazy when you get to know that they actually set office and classrooms on fire because of that. Want to know the craziest thing of all .. All those students who wanted “unfair” means in writing their exams are …. LAW Students. Yeah !!! They are going to deliver justice in the court of law.

God bless India.

Jan 19

Something more free from Rediff ?
Hell Yeah.

Whats that ?
URL redirection service.

Ads ?
Come on, its rediff, there will be Ads.

What makes it different from other URL redirection services ?
Other URL redirection services are created by themselves. Here, even rediff doesn’t know that it got one too !!!

What ?
okay, in clear words, yet another stupid implementation by rediff.

Where ?
here - > http://www.rediff.com/login/inredirect.php?url=http://karteek.selfdabba.com

What does it do ?
Arghh !!! Click on it !! -> K World

Wow. Anything more in it ?
Uhmm, you want more and rediff will never say No. Yeah, it got XSS in it too.

Double Wow. Show me, show me !!
Well, Neither I can tell no. Click this.

Can I use it for anything more ?
Hell, yeah. How about printing your name there on that page ?

Triple Wow. Show me, show me.
Dude, not going to show you this. But, yeah. Will give you a hint. Document.write in Javascript. And you know how to inject javascript into that page

What ? Do I know ?
Fck. Thats why I should have kept a disclaimer on the top that this post aint for everyone. XSS is Cross Site Scripting, where you would just inject javascript in to another site.

Oh. okay. What do I do now ?
Uhmm, how about one fair deal. I will show you all the bugs I/others found in rediff and you stop using it ?

Yeah. I’m in.
Just goto Xssed.com and search for rediff. Lazy guys like me, click this.