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Dd is a tool that is often used in computer forensics because it is extremly low level and effecient at creating exact duplicates of hard drives. For this reason it is often the tool for which all other tools are compared to. But is it useful for us regular Joes?. Can we use dd to (…)

Fork bombs are basically a never ending loop. They open a processes that opens other processes that open even more processes exponentially. Causing any computer to lock up within a matter of seconds. Although they have to be ran from a logged in user they are still a threat. Users can unintentionally cause a complete (…)

SSH by default is very strong. It has protection against various hacks and known vulnerabilities. For instance SSH has a password retry wait time of five seconds. This makes the time for brute force attacking an SSH server very long and probably not effective. However, sometimes script kiddies will fork their hacking program making multiple (…)

1. The classic prank. Take a screen shot of their desktop and set their wallpaper to that screenshot. Then hide all the icons by doing a right click > Arrange Icons By: > Show Desktop Icons. 2. Modify C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts to redirect their favorite website to http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU