Archives: Security

TechTogetherLK – Inagural Meetup – Internet of Things

February 22, 2015 | By Rakhitha | No Comments | Filed in: Tech.

Internet has changed lot of things. For some, internet was great, and for some, it meant going bankrupt. IoT is becoming a thing on the internet. It is more of an ecosystem where Things, Internet, Cloud and Big Data play their own roles. While it is great for many, there is the need for proper handling and managing • Read More »

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Got Hacked :S

July 11, 2012 | By Rakhitha | No Comments | Filed in: Tech.

Apparently some self-proclaimed Turkish Muslim hacker hacked my utterly insignificant blog. This blog gets about 30 visitors a day, on a really good day. And I don’t know what the point of hacking this one. Who ever got in, messed up the admin accounts of the blog and changed the home page saying that he/she is Muslim and from Turkey. • Read More »

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Few Tips to Protect Your Site/Blog from Attacks and Other Mishaps!

March 12, 2011 | By Rakhitha | 1 Comment | Filed in: Tech.

When you run a website or a blog, it is partly your responsibility to keep it safe. There are many ways that a web site can be attacked. Some attacks focus on infrastructure such as network and servers, and some focus on the web application itself. When it comes to attacks on infrastructure it’s service providers job • Read More »

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Is Democracy Being Flushed Down the Drain in Sri Lankan Blogosphere Or Are We Just Playing Naive?

March 9, 2011 | By Rakhitha | No Comments | Filed in: Me, Myself & I, Sri Lanka, Tech.

For many countries Internet, World Wide Web, social networks, blogs are the strongholds of democracy. In recent events in middle east they have served as the last line of defense for democracy, allowing it to fight back dictatorships and totalitarian societies. But Sri Lankan blogosphere seems a little different. It appears that some people thing that it should be more totalitarian than the Sri Lankan Society • Read More »

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No Papare Bands At Cricket World Cup 2011 Matches?

February 21, 2011 | By Rakhitha | 2 Comments | Filed in: Sri Lanka.

If you have subscribed for Ada-Derana news updates, you must have received  a message saying “Banners, parsals, musical instruments, glass bottles, crackers, laser lights, sharp instruments are not allowed in World Cup venues in SL”. And some time later you must have got the message “Following appeals by public IGP has allowed spectators to take • Read More »

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ASP.Net: Reduce Page Size, and Make Pages Load Faster by Storing View State on Server

July 6, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 3 Comments | Filed in: .Net Stuff, Tech.

View state is a mechanism which allow storing data related to the view of the web applications. That includes all data in your controls which is not yet saved to database. But the problem is this can get quite large and take  big bite out of your bandwidth and performance. When to Use View State & How • Read More »

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