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In this post I will present a way of creating a JavaScript based DOS attack that utilizes the bad implementation of tabs in most (if not all) web-browsers. The attack will make the browser unresponsive and force the user to kill its process. This attack is based on the following JavaScript code:
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When you track MediaWiki statistics, you usually track only internal page statistics, but tracking external links which leads out of your site is not some thing you can ignore. Unfortunately we probably can’t put actual tracking code in the pages linked to by our site’s external links. Fortunately we can track the actual clicks on those links that lead out of the site, and it’s quite easy to do when tracking statistics with Google Analytics. If you don’t already use Google Analytics with your MediaWiki site, open a new account in Google Analytics and see my previous post: Track MediaWiki Statistics using Google Analytics.