Knowledge Box

Just some time back i was trying to find some pictures, so i thought it will be good idea to find some on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/) as users on Flickr have always a very good and excellent collection of photos

When i was trying to access Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/) through my favourite browser Mozilla Firefox v2.0.0.6, it showed me an error saying that the connection to the website was reset, i thought it must be my connection problem and then once again i clicked on try again and then again on refresh button in my browser

Well now i really started to get suspicious, its not my connection, its not my browser, then is there something wrong with the website Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/) ?

So i did a Google Search to findout if there was (more…)

Prank starts 25 years of security woes

NEW YORK - What began as a ninth-grade prank, a way to trick already-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier practical jokes, has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to let loose a personal computer virus.

Although over the next 25 years, Skrenta started the online news business Topix, helped launch a collaborative Web directory now owned by Time Warner Inc.’s Netscape and wrote countless other computer programs, he is still remembered most for unleashing the "Elk Cloner" virus on the world.

"It was some dumb little practical joke," Skrenta, now 40, said in an interview. "I guess if you had to pick between being known for this and not being (more…)