WebGoat is a deliberately insecure J2EE web application maintained by OWASP designed to teach web application security lessons. In each lesson, users must demonstrate their understanding of a security issue by exploiting a real vulnerability in the WebGoat application. For example, in one of the lessons the user must use SQL injection to steal fake credit card numbers. The application is a realistic teaching environment, providing users with hints and code to further explain the lesson.
Why the name “WebGoat”? Developers should not feel bad about not knowing security. Even the best programmers make security errors. What they need is a scapegoat, right? Just blame it on the ‘Goat!
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Today while surfing I came across KDMC online portal.
www.kdmc.gov.in is the site of the official portal of Municipal Corporation of Kalyan-Dombivli developed by ABM KNOWLEDGEWARE LTD Prabhadevi.
Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC), initiated it’s journey into e-Governance in 1999.
Objective of website is creating a system driven Municipal Corporation with highest levels of Transparency, Accountability and Citizen Servicing Standards.
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Google India server down for more than 5 min. Suddenly Gmail and google server stopped responding everyone thinking Internet is down.
But after investigating come to know Google India Server down getting error ‘Connection to server www.google.co.in failed (The server is not responding.)’
First time I have seen google server going down.All google services not working for few minutes.
After sometime it started but response is very slow…Downtime for all Google service users 
Tags: Google India Server Down, server www.google.co.in failed
Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.
To try it out:
Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers.
Why should you try Google Public DNS?
Speed up your browsing experience.
As web pages become more complex, referencing resources from numerous domains, DNS lookups can become a significant bottleneck in the browsing experience. Whenever a client needs to query a DNS resolver over the network, the latency introduced can be significant, depending on the proximity and number of nameservers the resolver has to query
Improve your security.
Because of the open, distributed design of the Domain Name System, and its use of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), DNS is vulnerable to various forms of attack. Public or “open” recursive DNS resolvers are especially at risk, since they do not restrict incoming packets to a set of allowable source IP addresses.
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Raxit Seth software guy came up with fantastic easy to use mobile application for searching bus timings(BEST).This software works with any mobiles handset which support jar files .Download application http://www.m4mum.com
Pre-Launch features
- No need to send and spend on SMS!
- No GPRS (Internet on mobile)
- User friendly
- Search bus within 10 key strokes! In less than 10 seconds
- Works on Mobile Phone of Rs. 3000/- also (j2me compatible!)
- Better than the BEST ! Get all names of small bus stops which are not available even on BEST official website !!!
- Simpler than Google,Yahoo,Rediff Maps if you are travelling using Bus !
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Bangalore: A 21-year-old engineering student Neha M, has developed a mechanism by which a cellphone can double up as a counterfeit note detector, and for this project, she won the Rs. 1 lakh prize at the Innovation Challenge, organized by Schneider Electric India, where Neha competed with 150 entries from engineering colleges across the country, reports Gayatri Nair of Bangalore Mirror.
Neha, a student of Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering and Technology in Mysore says, “The increasing number of counterfeit notes in the country prompted me to develop this device. A trained eye can detect a fake note, but not the common man.”
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WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating a hacker attack on Citigroup Inc. that led to the theft of tens of millions of dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The bank strenuously denied the report.
Citing anonymous government officials, the Journal reported that the hackers were connected to a Russian cyber gang. Two other computer systems, at least one of connected to a U.S. government agency, were also attacked.
In a statement, Citi said “any allegation that the FBI is working on a case at Citigroup involving a breach of Citi systems resulting in tens of millions of dollars of losses is false. There has been no breach and there have been no associated losses.”
Dow Jones & Co. spokesman Robert Christie said the Journal stands by the accuracy of its story.
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