Kramfs Tech Chronicles » Security http://kramfs.com My Daily encounter with Mobile Technology, Net Culture, Social Media, Open Source, Green Computing and everything else in between! Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:38:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Is Houseonahill.net got hacked or infected with malware? http://kramfs.com/is-houseonahill.net-got-hacked-or-infected-with-malware/ http://kramfs.com/is-houseonahill.net-got-hacked-or-infected-with-malware/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:17:16 +0000 kramfs http://kramfs.com/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 [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://kramfs.com/is-houseonahill.net-got-hacked-or-infected-with-malware/feed/ 0 Google Gmail down? http://kramfs.com/google-gmail-down-4/ http://kramfs.com/google-gmail-down-4/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:01:11 +0000 kramfs http://kramfs.com/google-gmail-down-4/ 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 [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://kramfs.com/google-gmail-down-4/feed/ 0 The Website setup for the victims of Princess of the Stars ship was hacked http://kramfs.com/the-website-setup-for-the-victims-of-princess-of-the-stars-ship-was-hacked/ http://kramfs.com/the-website-setup-for-the-victims-of-princess-of-the-stars-ship-was-hacked/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:01:10 +0000 kramfs http://kramfs.com/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 [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://kramfs.com/the-website-setup-for-the-victims-of-princess-of-the-stars-ship-was-hacked/feed/ 1 More on SSH passwordless login (using RSA/DSA key) http://kramfs.com/more-on-ssh-passwordless-login-using-rsadsa-key/ http://kramfs.com/more-on-ssh-passwordless-login-using-rsadsa-key/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:01:07 +0000 kramfs http://kramfs.com/2008/01/08/more-on-ssh-passwordless-login-using-rsadsa-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 [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://kramfs.com/more-on-ssh-passwordless-login-using-rsadsa-key/feed/ 0 Secure your Gmail access with sSL http://kramfs.com/secure-your-gmail-access-with-ssl/ http://kramfs.com/secure-your-gmail-access-with-ssl/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:01:04 +0000 kramfs http://kramfs.com/2008/09/28/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 [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://kramfs.com/secure-your-gmail-access-with-ssl/feed/ 1 Google’s “Latitude”: A major security flaw in Google’s global phone tracking system http://kramfs.com/googles-latitude-a-major-security-flaw-in-googles-global-phone-tracking-system/ http://kramfs.com/googles-latitude-a-major-security-flaw-in-googles-global-phone-tracking-system/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:01:02 +0000 kramfs http://kramfs.com/2009/02/06/googles-latitude-a-major-security-flaw-in-googles-global-phone-tracking-system/  

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 [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://kramfs.com/googles-latitude-a-major-security-flaw-in-googles-global-phone-tracking-system/feed/ 2 What is Conficker Worm and Illustration of How Does it works http://kramfs.com/what-is-conficker-worm-and-illustration-of-how-does-it-works/ http://kramfs.com/what-is-conficker-worm-and-illustration-of-how-does-it-works/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:35:00 +0000 kramfs http://kramfs.com/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 [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://kramfs.com/what-is-conficker-worm-and-illustration-of-how-does-it-works/feed/ 0 Another successful hack for Department of Trade and Industry (dti.gov.ph) http://kramfs.com/another-successful-hack-for-department-of-trade-and-industry-dti.gov.ph/ http://kramfs.com/another-successful-hack-for-department-of-trade-and-industry-dti.gov.ph/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:20:03 +0000 kramfs http://kramfs.com/2008/12/27/another-successful-hack-for-department-of-trade-and-industry-dti.gov.ph/  

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 [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://kramfs.com/another-successful-hack-for-department-of-trade-and-industry-dti.gov.ph/feed/ 1 Password-less login using putty on Nokia E-Series (e61) http://kramfs.com/password-less-login-using-putty-on-nokia-e-series-e61/ http://kramfs.com/password-less-login-using-putty-on-nokia-e-series-e61/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:19:59 +0000 kramfs http://kramfs.com/2008/02/05/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 [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://kramfs.com/password-less-login-using-putty-on-nokia-e-series-e61/feed/ 1 Tracking your Gmail account login http://kramfs.com/tracking-your-gmail-account-login/ http://kramfs.com/tracking-your-gmail-account-login/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:03:49 +0000 kramfs http://kramfs.com/2008/10/01/tracking-your-gmail-account-login/ I am waiting for an appointment last night and it is still around 2 hours away and nothing to do. The good thing is that I brought my netbook (ASUS eeePC 1000H) with me.

I plan to read my 13K+ unread emails on my gmail account. So I fired up my netbook [...] Related posts:

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