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MyOrionet hacked and lessons learned

10 September 2006 16 Comments

MyOrionet is conducting a competition which is, webmaster who can listed his website on the first rank in Google will win. Today, WTJ commented on one of my post about MyOrionet had been hacked. The hacker named himself as Hacker_Amca and s/he (I don’t know the gender :p ) put link to other website. I don’t know what language used there. I think the website is from Tukey. Here is the print screen of the hacked website:

Lessons learned
Lessons that we can learn from this situation are:

Update your website scripts when there are new updates available
This is a must because the latest updates have bugs fixed and some upgrades that can improve the security of your website.
Always backup your site and databases
Make a backup of your website everyday if you update your site contents everyday. If not, make backup at least once a week.

I’m no security expert but I have little knowledge how to prevent sites from being hacked. Hope we can learn something from what had happen to MyOrionet. [tags]hacker, hack, website[/tags]

Old posts. Don’t throw them away. Why?

10 September 2006 7 Comments

I would like to ask you bloggers, what happen with your olds posts? Old that I mean here are posts that have been leave down far at the bottom of your archives.

I start thinking about this yesterday when I glance through my own posts in my archives and thought what will happen with all of my old posts. Do people read them? Do I need to delete all of these old posts to clear my spaces? (sure I will not delete them lol…) Should I republish these posts? Many questions came into my head yesterday.

Land Walker, “Gundam Mech” in the real world

9 September 2006 3 Comments

Technology in Japan has taken step more further. This “Gundam” robot is a person-carying robot vehicle with 3.4 metres high and 1000 kg weight and is the first mechanatron ever built by human being.

The manufacturer, Sakakibara-Kikai released this mech to attract attention for the company. This heavy duty mech not only can walk but it also can shoot. Yea, shooting and fighting with mech is the best part in Gundam series. 🙂

Anyway, the bullets used by this mech are not the real one. It just shoot with rubber balls. But wonder what will happen if Land Walker equiped with real bullets? 😕

Take a look at this robot in actions:

How to send executable file in Gmail

8 September 2006 23 Comments

Yesterday my friend SMS me to send an installer (executable) file via email. So I use Gmail as my primary email account and attached the file. But when I want to send the email, Gmail warned me that it does not allow any executable file send from Gmail. I’m sure this is regarding of the security issues. So how I can send the executable file? Here is the trick. :d

Ok let say the file that you want to send name is Executable.

executablenoexe

Go to Folder Options (My Computer > Tools > Folder Options)
In View tab, uncheck “Hide extensions for known file types“.
And the file will look like this
Then rename the extension .exe with other extension like .jpg. Windows will prompt a warning message, just click “Ok”. The file icon will be changed to .jpg icon and now your executable file is in .jpg format.
Send the file to the receipent.
After the receipent recieve the file, ask them to rename the extension file with .exe or it will not work.

Note: I have try this many times in Gmail and it works and I’m sure this trick also works in other email services. Because you send an image file not executable file. :p

Found this trick useful? Please Digg the story! 😉

My article got plagiarized

8 September 2006 16 Comments

Take a look at this article. Is the article looks the same like the article that I wrote?

I don’t care if he want to copy and use my article but at least put the author name or where he got the article. Dude… I don’t know how you can earn money by submitting my article as yours on that site but anyway I hope you “happy” with what you did.

ps: Guys…sorry if I’m little bit emo in this post. I just don’t feel like it when someone do like that. Plagiarize.

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