cURL stands for ‘Client for URLs‘. It is a command line tool for transferring files using URL syntax and supports many internet transfer protocols. It uses a portable library called ‘libcurl’ which is compatible with many platforms. PHP provides native support for ‘libcurl’ and many functions were added to PHP 4.0.2 for this purpose.[.....]

The fourth variant of the Conficker worm, Conficker.D, failed to show up on April 1 putting a stop to the speculation that April Fool’s Day would prove to be some sort of Cyber Doomsday. However, 7 days later on April 8, another variant Conficker.E has risen. The Conficker worm started updating via p2p between[.....]

PHP provides a built-in facility to detect the IP address of the visitor using the $_SERVER superglobal array. Using the ‘REMOTE_ADDR’ element as an index value for this array, you can easily get the IP address as: $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] You can either print it, or treat it as a variable. Heck, store it in another[.....]