The Danesh Project

Your Gmail Exposed

Image taken from DavidAirey

What would you do if someone hacked into your Gmail account and stole valueble information like your user name and passwords?

This happened to David Airey a logo designer from http://www.davidairey.com which is now forced back to it’s secondary URL http://www.davidairey.co.uk. His site was getting about 2000 hits a day. His business cards need to be updated and clients need to be informed.

The attacker managed to leverage a security exploit in Gmail which allowed him to inject a mail filter into Gmail which forwards all mails with attachments to the attacker. The attacker managed to obtain David’s domain account credentials.

During David’s recent holiday to India with his girlfriend, the attacker transfered “www.davidairey.com” to himself and is now holding it ransom till David decides to pay up the ransom fee of USD250 which initially was USD600.

Read the full story here.

My Advice: Google has since fixed this issue but still, make sure to check your Gmail filters. It could just save you your business and loads of time.

What would you do if this happened to you? How can we prevent this?

Yearly pilgrimage

Dropped my best friends Alan, Raja and Weesak off at the bus station last night. This is the beginning of the yearly pilgrimage we make to Langkawi. 5th year to Langkawi if memory serves me right.

Why now? Simple, new year in Langkawi!!! No jam, party with no dress code, chicks and best of all cheap BOOZE!!!!

Imagine 1 whole week without worries, phones, notebooks, city life, parents,clean rooms, schedules and every other pain in the ass reason you can find. Only us, the ocean, Mr. BEER, Mr. Liquor and reagea music….. Woo Hoo!!!!

I’m running late this year though, stuck with work so I’ll be leaving this Friday the 28th and will be there till the 1st. So wish I could leave everything behind and join them on the bus, doesn’t help that we just had some pre Lankawi beers just now.sigh……

Well, I’ll hang in there for 2 days….

Deluge BitTorrent Client 0.5.8RC2 released

My favorite BitTorrent client Deluge has a new version out. 0.5.8rc2.

The new version is available for all the major OS platforms now. Linux, Mac OS X and also Windows.

Deluge 0.5.8RC2 (25 December 2007)

• Change add torrent to ctrl+n
• Change notification plugin to not show the file list, but only the torrent name
• Allow removal of browser icon from toolbar
• Add buttons to browser to launch the main and footer frames into an external browser
• Fix removing torrents from deluge template of webui – vonck7
• Set the advanced webui template as default
• Cut down significantly on the memory usage of the blocklist plugin
• Fix some UPnP bugs
• Fix “New version” alert from freezing sometimes
• Prioritizes local peers over non-local ones when finding connect
• Wish everyone a happy holiday

O ya, see my speed? Yup I have access to a dedicated lease line now with no throttling Woo Hoo!!

Download the latest version here or use your package manager if you are running Linux.

Malaysian broadband providers

If you ever wondered just how many different broadband providers we might have here in Malaysia, then this may help.

1. eBulding – http://www.eb.net.my/
2. Airzed – http://www.airzed.com/
3. Arcnet NTT MSC Sdn Bhd – http://www.arc.net.my/
4. Atlas One Broadband Internet Provider – http://www.atlasone.net/
5. Biz Surf – Broadband Internet services – http://www.bizsurf.com/
6. Celcom – http://www.celcom.net.my/
7. Digi – http://www.digi.com.my
8. Giga Broadband VDSL – http://www.vdslnetwork.com/
9. Gold Information Systems Wireless broadband provider – http://www.gissb.com/
10. iDiGi Internet Services – http://www.idigi.com.my/
11. iZZi – Mobile wireless broadband, iBurst – http://www.izzi.com.my/
12. Jaring – http://www.jaring.my/
13. Maxis Broadband – http://www.maxis.net.my/
14. Metro FON – http://www.metrofon.com.my/
15. NasionCom – http://www.nasioncom.com.my/
16. Penang FON – http://www.penangfon.com/
17. PutraNet – http://www.putra.net.my/
18. Time Net – http://www.time.com.my/
19. Time Broadband – http://timebroadband.time.net.my/
20. TMnet – http://tm.net.my/
21. TMnet Streamyx – http://isp.tm.net.my/streamyx/
22. Webbit – Time Wireless Broadband – http://timebroadband.time.net.my/webbit/
23. ZapZone Wireless Hotspot – http://www.zapzone.com.my/
24. Netlynx by TIME dotCom Berhad – http://www.netlynx.net.my/

Updated on 27th December 2008

25. P1W1MAX – http://www.p1.com.my
26. InfoLient – http://www.infolient.com

Updated on 3rd January 2009

27. Amax – http://www.amax.my

My Opinion: MetroFon/PenangFon is the best provider I have ever used here in Malaysia. I was using them during my stay in Penang for more then a year. RM60 for 2mbps up/down. Can’t beat that now can you damn Streamyx!!

If you realize, many of the providers above only offer up to a maximum of 2mbps and the prices are ridicules. Is there a limitation to what providers can give to end users set by the gov?

Source: PlanetLOWYAT

Alan Bernard’s F’kn Mayhem featured at WSMY

My best pal Alan has always been into alternative art. I knew him when he had nothin but now over the years he has matured into a self thought web designer, graphic designer, t shirt designer and the list goes on…..
His blog, Alan Bernard’s F’kn Mayhem covers all kinds of street art. Shoes, shirts, caps, toys, grafit and much much. He has also been busy building social networks with overseas designers who share the same passion. This is clearly seen through the mountains of reviews and interviews he posts. Recently he has also been receiveing Ts, caps and other product from overseas designers asking to be reviewed on his blog. This is good!!

Today, I stumbled on to WSMY (Web Standards Malaysia). A web design best practices project for Malaysian designers. Alan’s blog was featured here for being out of the standard mold.

Every now and then we see a local website that is so rad that it makes us go ‘Why didn’t we see that earlier?�

quoted from WSMY

It’s good to see artists being appreciated for their art and given credit for it even if their art may sometimes come off as being weird or not mainstream as Alan normally says.

Thanks WSMY for the the coverage. Hope to see more reviews of grate Malaysian talents in the future.

Source: WSMY