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WhatsApp Status For New Year 2020 Messages & Images

Happy New Year Quotes For WhatsApp & Instagram Status

Below is a list of WhatsApp Status you can use for the New Year 2020. You can use these messages as your WhatsApp status. Since these messages are present as both text and images, you can download them for free here! So without wasting any more time, let us go through these messages.

Happy New Year Quotes For WhatsApp & Instagram Status

WhatsApp Status Message #1 For New Year 2020

Let us welcome together New Year with new hopes and dreams. So wishing you a very Happy New Year 2020

So this is a simple yet straight to the point message. You can use this in your WhatsApp or Instagram stories as well!

Instagram Stories Update #2 For New Year 2020

It is time to forget the past and celebrate a new beginning. Happy New Year 2020

Since this message is not directed at anyone, it can be used by all. So you can send this message to your family members, friends or even your office colleagues. So not a bad status message to use after all, right? 😉

Happy New Year 2020 Status Message #3

May God always surprise you with great things like you always made me in life! Wish You A Very Happy New Year!

Because this status message is pointing to someone important in your life, you should use it to those who matters you a lot! So it can be used for your family members, your friends or your loved ones. But no matter what, this message will cheer them up to no end! 🙂

Are you looking for Happy New Year Images To Download In HD For Free? Then Check this post for more!

Best WhatsApp Status Message For The New Year #4

Another year has passed. Yet another year has come. I wish a very Happy New Year for that. May all your dreams come true in this year!

So short, yet so on point. That is the beauty of this status message. So no matter whom you send this to, it will for sure make their day! Do you agree with me? 😉

Instagram New Year 2020 Status Post #5

Like a gift box full of your wildest dreams, I wonder what wonders this year will bring to you! Wishing you a very Happy New Year 2020!

So this is getting rather poetic! If you have friends you know who are more romantic, then this message will hit them the most! So don’t waste your time looking for anymore messages. Just use this to let them know how much they matter to you!

Conclusion

So these were some of the status messages you can use in your WhatsApp and Instagram updates. If you liked this post, do let me know. I will be very happy to read it 🙂

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How HTML Anchor Tag Could Be Used To Perform DDOS Attacks

Chinese attackers have been using HTML Anchor tags to perform DDOS attacks across the world these days. This is one such instance where a seemingly benign feature addition done to the HTML technical specification has inadvertently opened a Pandora box of its misuse/abuse by hackers and attackers.

As mentioned in my introductory article to HTML Anchor Tags, Anchor tags are used to link documents present on the word wide web so that users of a web page can easily navigate to a new web page seamlessly from their web browsers.

An example of HTML code using anchor tags looks something like this:

<a href="https://muddoo.com" title="Muddoo Home">Muddoo</a>

While the above code is a standard way of using HTML anchor tags, there are also additional anchor tag attributes one can use to add new features to the anchor tag’s overall functionality. In our previous article we looked at the noopener attribute that ensures that when the respective anchor links are opened in a new window, they are opened in a separate thread all together and have no relationship to the parent web page in anyways. This ensured that Cross Site Script (XSS) attacks could not be made from child web page to the parent page.

Just like the noopener attribute, we have another attribute associated with the anchor tags that some hackers are misusing to perform DDOS attacks on other websites. This attribute is the “ping” attribute of the anchor tags!

What is HTML Ping Attribute?

Ping is a new attribute of an Anchor tag that was introduced in HTML5 specification. Ping attribute would list a set of one or more URLs that are pinged back whenever a user of a web page follows a hyperlink from that anchor tag.

The idea of introducing Ping attribute to anchor tags was to enable web administrators track clicks on that hyperlink. An example of how this attribute looks like is shown below:

<a href="https://google.com" ping="https://muddoo.com/tracker">Go to Google</a>

So in the above example, whenever a user clicks on “Go to Google” hyperlink, he will be taken to the Google home page, but at the same time, a ping POST message is sent back to the https://muddoo.com/tracker webpage for muddoo.com website to keep track of number of users going to Google through that hyperlink.

But the problem occurred when some of the Chinese hackers started using this innocuous feature to perform DDOS attacks on many websites. They simply created web page with links to standard websites such as Alibaba or Tabao, while using ping back links to their target websites. They specifically targeted people using QQBrowser (from Chinese giant Tencent) to use their web pages to reach standard websites. This resulted in millions of Ping request going back to targeted websites thus acting as a DDOS attack on these websites.

How to prevent Anchor Tag Ping attacks from your web pages?

With good understanding of how the attack is being performed, you must be wondering how you can prevent such DDOS attacks originating from your websites or getting attacked by one. But unfortunately, there are no clear solutions in place as the support for Ping requests are part of HTML 5 specifications so all browsers will be supporting it (well, more or less), so your only best possibilities will be to keep monitoring such activities on your web server and take appropriate action at the right moment.

Hope this article gave good introduction to the possible Ping DDOS attacks happening due to the presence of Ping attribute in the HTML Anchor tags. This article has been part of series of articles that I have been writing about HTML tags with this being the third article on HTML Anchor Tags.

If you would like to take a look at other two articles, you can follow these links:

Introduction To HTML Anchor Tag

What is noopener vulnerability found in anchor tags of HTML?

Until next time, happy coding! 🙂

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Introduction To HTML Anchor Tag

Brief structure of an HTML Anchor tag
Typical HTML Anchor tag usage in web documents

Anchor tag is an HTML tag that is used to mark the beginning and end of a hyperlink text in the HTML document.

A website is made up of one or more HTML documents that contains all the information parts of the website. But word wide web as a whole mainly works because of the ability of these HTML web documents to link (or refer) to each other. This inter-linking of web pages is achieved by using the HTML anchor tags.

A typical structure of an anchor tag looks like this:

<a href="https://muddoo.com" title="Muddoo Home">Muddoo</a>
Brief structure of an HTML Anchor tag
Typical HTML Anchor tag usage in web documents

From the above, we note that an anchor tag starts and ends between notations like <a> and </a>. In other words, HTML anchor tags have both opening and closing tags. Text between this opening and closing tags is called the anchor text and is responsible for taking the user to a new document upon being clicked. In the above example, “Muddoo” is the anchor text.

But where does the user go on clicking the Anchor text? This is determined by the href attribute of the HTML anchor tag. The url in the href attribute of anchor tag is the destination web page’s address where the user will be taken to.

In addition to href attribute, the HTML anchor tag also has another attribute called “title”. The title attribute of the HTML anchor tag holds a piece of text that the user will see upon hovered over by the mouse. It is also helpful as an accessibility feature for people using screen readers as it gets read out by the screen readers.

Finally, there are also a few other attributes such as “target” attribute which provides additional functions such as determining if the destination web page is to be opened in the same window or a new window. These type of additional attributes can be looked upon in the official w3c html specification document.

But all in all, the Anchor tags are the fundamental elements of the world wide web that weaves the inter-connected paths between various web documents that helps the web users to seamlessly navigate between various websites and documents without any hassles.

Hope this gave a brief introduction to the HTML anchor tags. HTM Anchor tags are tags that are going to be used regularly while creating a HTML web page so having a clear understanding of its structure and how it works becomes essential. In the same line, I will continue to document more about other HTML tags in the future that are bare essential for web development.

Until then, happy coding!

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What is WordPress?

WordPress is a software tool that one can use to create a website with ease. WordPress is often also called a Content Management System or CMS for short, because it provides a set of tools and user friendly interface to manage the website and its contents, like creating new posts, delete posts, add new users, remove existing users, change the style of the website etc.

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The ease at which one can create a website and manage it, without its user needing to have any technical knowledge or programming language makes WordPress one of the most popular website development and CMS software of choice.

Just how easy is it to use WordPress for website development?


In order to create a new website using WordPress, the creator is not required to have any programming background. There are several web hosting providers such as Namecheap, GoDaddy etc who provide web hosting services with One-Click WordPress installers built into their user’s Control Panel.

So, by just clicking a button, a user will be able to create a simple WordPress website. Of course a little bit of configuration needs to be done to ensure that the domain name that the user wants to use with the website is done. However, this is pretty straight forward and the web hosting providers do provide with sufficient tutorials and documentations on how to do this so it should not really be a bottleneck for non technical first time creator of a WordPress website.

How much does the WordPress software tool cost?

WordPress is an open source website development and CMS tool that is made available for free to its users. So, there is no cost one has to pay for using WordPress to create a website.

However having said that, a website needs to be stored in a web server and be made available to its users across the world. This web server will then be serving your WordPress web pages on the internet to its users throughout the day. This process is actually called as “Web Hosting“.

Theoretically, one can use your own computer to run (aka host) your website, but then you will need to ensure your computer is always switched on, connected to the internet and also not slowing down at any point in time. This means, you will not be able to use your computer for any other tasks that will slow down your computer.

So to avoid that, one will need to rent out a web server from any one of the various WordPress web hosting service providers. By doing so, the responsibility of ensuring that the website’s uptime i.e. your WordPress website’s web server is up and running 24/7 throughout the year will be taken care by those WordPress web hosting service providers.

Even though it may cost you a little bit to host your WordPress site on a 3rd party web hosting service providers, It is still considered a very good business decision to outsource such tasks to the service providers as then you can focus on your specific business growth activities knowing that your website’s uptime will never be compromised.

So now that we have a brief introduction to what a WordPress software tool is, we will just briefly discuss about some technical details of the WordPress. While a non technical person need not have to know any programming aspects of WordPress, having a little bit of introduction to what WordPress itself is made up of can be useful when he needs to get some technical help from any person in the future.

What is the Programming language used in WordPress?

WordPress is a PHP programming language based Content Management System (CMS). It is one of the most popular CMS used across the world. It powers more than 30% of the websites on the internet, and as a result of this popularity, it is often also the most targeted platform by hackers to try to find and exploit WordPress’s vulnerability. So one has to ensure that he keeps his WordPress website always updated with any security patches released by WordPress community.

What is the software stack used in WordPress?

While in the previous section, we described WordPress as a CMS written using PHP programming language, it also makes use of other additional technologies. These technologies clubbed together are often called as a software stack.

WordPressContent Management System (CMS) is primarily made of LAMP stack. LAMP stack stands for Linux, Apache, MySQl and PHP stack, where each of these components of the stack serves a specific purpose.

While we will discuss about each of these components of a WordPress stack in greater detail in future articles, here is a brief description of what each of this LAMP stack of WordPress stands for:

Linux – Linux is the Operating System that the webserver runs on.

Apache – Apache is the Web Server on which WordPress will typically run on.

MySQL – MySQL is the name of the database which is typically used by WordPress to store any website data as well as its content itself.

PHP – PHP is the programming language used to write WordPress software.

If you have read up to this point, you should now be having a decent understanding of what a WordPress software tool is, got an introduction to some new terminologies like CMS, Apache, MySQL, PHP etc.

In the future articles, we will start taking a deeper look into each of these components that make up a WordPress website, what their primary roles are in the functioning of WordPress, how their performance matters for the performance of your WordPress website as a whole and much more.

If you have any doubts after going through this article, or would like me to cover any specific point in more detail regarding WordPress, do leave a comment on this post below and I will make sure to discuss with you further on those topics.

See you in the next article!