Facebook was unavailable for about an hour today. Not sure what happened but this is what I found when I tried to browse FACEBOOK.COM UPDATE: From further search on this issue I came to know that the famous Lizard Squad (Black Hat Hacking Group) is responsible for the Facebook down issue. A huge DOS attack…
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Viber – WhatsApp back in service in Bangladesh
Good News! - Viber, WhatsApp, Line, Tango etc have been Unblocked. These were blocked few days back on the ground of security issues. I checked this morning and all of these were working perfectly. This has happened when people were fearing ban on Facebook on same excuse.
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GRAB YOUR JOOMLA SUBDOMAIN - BEFORE OTHERS TAKE IT AWAY. Like wordpress - Joomla.com is now offering subdomain. You can open your joomla.com subdomain with just 1 step - signup process. This is indeed a great initiative by joomla. It will help the beginners to learn Joomla on realtime hosted environment. However, if you signup…
Continue readingWhatsApp, Line and MyPeople Blocked in Bangladesh
Three more instant messaging and Internet calling software got blocked in Bangladesh - just one day after blocking another popular program Viber. From an unconfirmed source - I could learn that these are blocked till 21st January with an excuse of security concern. Although officials said these will be unblocked by 21st January - but…
Continue readingBTRC Website Hacked in protest of blocking Viber and other similar services
A group of Bangladeshi hackers have hacked the website of BTRC. They did put a logo of theirs' in BTRC website homepage. BTRC probably taken the site down immediately. The website www.btrc.gov.bd is still down ( 1am 19-01-2015). It has been referred from an unconfirmed source that - the hacking has taken place in protest…
Continue readingViber and similar Instant messaging services are blocked in Bangladesh
The Government of Bangladesh has blocked Viber and similar popular instant messaging and Internet calling services in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has sent a letter to all the mobile operators and International Internet Gateway (IIG) providers to shut the services of these services. While most of the users of Mobile operators are unable…
Continue readingWhy Google Drive is the better choice than Dropbox in Bangladesh
If you are residing in Bangladesh and you are using Dropbox as you cloud storage solution - It is good time to switch to Google Drive. There are many other reasons why Google drive is preferable - but the most important of those is the network speed issue in Bangladesh. I would not start the…
Continue readingSolution for Deprecated function iconv_set_encoding() error while Joomla Installation in php 5.6
If you are trying to install Joomla (or other CMS) in php 5.6 environment and encounter the error : Deprecated: iconv_set_encoding() - I've got a solution for you. The error may look like following: Deprecated: iconv_set_encoding(): Use of iconv.internal_encoding is deprecated in joomlaroot\libraries\joomla\string\string.php on line 27Deprecated: iconv_set_encoding(): Use of iconv.input_encoding is deprecated in joomlaroot\libraries\joomla\string\string.php on line 28Deprecated: iconv_set_encoding(): Use of iconv.output_encoding is…
Continue readingQuota Problem in WHM: Enabling second level quota on an OpenVZ node
I am talking about a very common problem in cPanel/WHM based server or VPS. Fresh WHM based server often do not show proper quota allocation for the hosting accounts. It show ZERO usage and Unlimited quota. Fixing the problem in a dedicated server is quite straight forward. The "Initial Quota Setup" in WHM or the…
Continue readingHow to block IP address in Linux – Using IPTables Rule
Using IPTables rules we can block a Single IP address or a block of IP Addresses. The following command (via ssh) will drop any packet coming from the IP address 1.2.3.4 : # iptables -I INPUT -s 1.2.3.4 -j DROP or you can use append # iptables -A INPUT -s 1.2.3.4 -j DROP How To Block Subnet…
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