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Philippine Information Agency website defaced

Is this related to the recent hostage taking? The website is now back up but no mention of the defacing….

MANILA — The Philippines on Sunday ordered all government offices to tighten Internet security after its main information website, Philippine Information Agency, was brought down by hackers.

"We are alerting all government agencies to review and improve [...]

Is Houseonahill.net got hacked or infected with malware?

Yesterday, mella alerted me regarding her laptop acting weird. It keep triggering a virus alert while visiting one of her favorite site, houseonahill.net. She confirmed that only this site  triggered the alert. I told her to reboot the laptop and try again. I keep thinking that this might be the effect of a heuristic configuration I [...]

Google Gmail down?

Apparently, Gmail is down as it is giving me this error page when I tried opening my mail

and a bit of searching led to this post in Google help page:

the good things is that last week I enabled a new feature of Gmail from Google labs called “Offline Gmail” so I was able to access my [...]

The Website setup for the victims of Princess of the Stars ship was hacked

MV Princess of the Stars was a ferry owned by Filipino shipping company Sulpicio Lines that capsized off the coast of San Fernando, Romblon at the height of Typhoon Fengshen (PAGASA name: Frank) on June 21, 2008. (Fengshen passed directly over Romblon as a Category 2 storm.)

Built in 1984, the 23,824-ton ferry MV Princess of the [...]

More on SSH passwordless login (using RSA/DSA key)

After experimenting with my Nokia E61 and putty, I just found out a better way to add the public key to remote servers. This assume that you’re using a linux box as a client.

On your local computer, type:

$ssh-keygen -t rsa

Note: Just press “enter” for every question for truly passwordless login

Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in [...]

Secure your Gmail access with sSL

Did you noticed that when you log into your Gmail account, the default connection for user validation is via SSL, however once your Inbox is loaded, the connection is redirected to non-secure ordinary http://.

When you change the URL prefix to secure mode (https), it reconnect to your Inbox via SSL and then retain the SSL connection [...]

Google’s “Latitude”: A major security flaw in Google’s global phone tracking system

Technorati Tags: Google latitude,location awareness,mobile location privacy,mobile privacy

 

One day after the global launch of Google’s “Latitude” phone tracking system, Privacy International has identified what appears to be a fundamental design problem that could substantially endanger user privacy.

Google Latitude, a new service from Google that allows you to send your location to Google Maps and share it [...]

What is Conficker Worm and Illustration of How Does it works

The Conficker worm is a computer worm that can infect your computer and spread itself to other computers across a network automatically, without human interaction. It exploits a vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft patched in October. It is commonly known as Kido or Downadup and first appeared in November.

Conficker.B, detected in February, added the ability to [...]

Another successful hack for Department of Trade and Industry (dti.gov.ph)

Technorati Tags: dti hacked,department of labor and industry,philippines dti hacked

 

It seems that the website of DTI or Department of Labor and Industry in the Philippines has been hacked. A quick search revealed that it seems this is going on for sometimes now. Somebody calling himself “General Palestine” is claiming the hack.

 

The website is now his/their [...]

Password-less login using putty on Nokia E-Series (e61)

This document will tackle on how to set password-less SSH login on Linux (Ubuntu) using RSA key

On occasion, I have the need to establish trust relationships between Unix/Linux boxes so that I can administer the box. Because OpenSSH allows you to run commands on remote systems, showing you the results directly, as well as just logging [...]