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WordPress sites get hacked all the time, because the typical WordPress blogger install 100’s of shitty plugins and rarely updates their site.

Last Monday, I got a text message from my uncle saying his office computer was hacked, and he couldn’t access any of his files.

On the 1st of February, Malaysians experienced yet another fuel price increase.

As Malaysia slowly (but surely) migrates to Chip and Pin, some banks have taken the opportunity to issue not just new Pin-enabled cards, but contactless-enabled ones as well.

The New York Times reported this week that Facebook has ‘quitely developed’ a censorship tool, specifically for the Chinese government to suppress content on their platform.

As with all new shiny equipment, a newly installed router in your home requires a few things to be configured to properly secure it.

As a follow-up to my previous post on DDOS attacks [1,2], I’ve seen a lot of so-called ‘solutions’ to the problem, which really aren’t solutions at all.

Customers of Singaporean ISP StarHub, suffered two major disruptions to their service over the past week, in what the telco said was a result of a “intentional and likely malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks”.

Brian Krebs is the most reputable name in CyberSecurity reporting, his krebsonsecurity website is the best source of ‘real’ journalism on the subject.

Jais recently launched anew mobile app to allow the public to easily report any crimes that contravene syariah laws.

Is it wise to use an online password manager?

When I was in school, we joked about people who kept their money under the mattress, that somehow those who didn’t use banks were less intelligent than people who did.The general thinking was that smart people kept their money in the bank, where it was sa…

Some interesting points: Non-nation state actors now pose a significant threat to nation states Historical threats usually associated with bad nation states, can now be executed by non nation-states Industrial Era, was about a consolidation of power, in t…

This week, I’ll put the final touches on my move from Malaysia to Singapore.

You’ve probably heard of the hackers who almost got away with $1 billion, only to be thwarted by a typo.

A republication of my article on 2600, a hacker magazine Greetings from Malaysia.

KLANG: Two years on, the the pilot initiative to teach coding and digital security as an SPM subject has been touted as a resounding success, and the government is mulling a move to make it compulsory by 2020.

So now, only actual travellers will be allowed into airports, and everybody else from your mother to your 3rd aunty twice removed has to say their teary goodbye at home rather than at the Airport KFC.

If you haven’t listened to it already, here’s a fantastic cut-down (no bullshit) version of Jim Comey’s testimony to congress, on why he recommended Hillary Clinton not be prosecuted for hosting her own e-mail servers.

What do you do when the technology turns on you?

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Let’s start with the quote that set off the rage in my heart— “You can see today that our Internet is slow.

This will easily be the most controversial blog post I ever wrote, so consider yourself warned.

Gawker is the internet’s most slimy news organization, a online website that has no qualms disclosing people’s sexual infidelities regardless of the cost such disclosures have on their personal lives.

The last time I took a public train in Malaysia was 10 years ago.

Two weeks ago, I took my first ever Uber ride, and here’s what I think is The Good, the bad and the ugly of Uber.

Some people are fans of medieval torture, and who can blame them.

People think of the media as the powerful behemoth that’s capable of swaying public perception.

On April 2nd, 1917, the President of the United States of America addressed an extraordinary session in congress, asking them to authorize America to declare war against the central powers in World War 1.

Nobody really knows how the FBI is hacking into iPhones.

What happens when a government agency tasked with providing cybersecurity “guidance” and “expertise” gives you advice like “avoid uploading pictures of yourself to avoid the threat of black magic”?

In the online world, surveillance and censorship are two sides of the same coin, you can’t have one without the other.

Every now an again, I brush off the dust from an old laptop I have in the corner, and boot-up a couple of forgotten python scripts.

A public service announcement from our good friends at the FBI, warns that motor vehicles are increasingly vulnerable to remote exploits, which in the wake of the bad-ass research from Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller shouldn’t be shocking.

You don’t have a right to freedom of speech.

The Apple vs.

Imagine a small village of a 100 people.

A judge in the US has ordered Apple to provide ’technical assistance’ to FBI, in creating what some (but not all) cybersecurity experts call a backdoor.

Under the current hype of the FBI ordering Apple to ‘install backdoors’ on their iPhones, a bit of interesting news seems to have slid under the radar.

Today, I was on BFM talking about Hacking Team, the audio for which is below, and more comments and thoughts below that.

Our spanking new, hand-picked Attorney-General is proposing life imprisonment for journalist who refuse to reveal their sources.

Next week, I’ll be on BFM for an interview about spyware, which will be my last Hail Mary play to get a conversation started about the use of surveillance software by the Government.

Malaysian rejoiced last month when Netflix announced that they would be coming to our shores.

So the buzz around twitter is that Medium.com has been blocked by the Malaysian Authorities, and guess what?

If you believe (as I do), that the government bought spyware, then here are some pertinent questions Question 1: Do these government agencies actually have investigative powers?

[caption id=“attachment_5373” align=“aligncenter” width=“550”] E-mail from Miliserv to Hacking team stipulating the end-customer as the Prime Ministers Department[/caption] The Prime Ministers Department has denied (twice!)

The Government has denied buying spyware from hacking team, they really should have checked with me before issuing the statement.

2 weeks ago, Wan Saiful Wan Jan. the chief executive of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) penned an opinion piece in thestar claiming that there was a prevalence of anti-TPP ideologies in Malaysia.

The price of freedom is the possibility of crime, and if you’re unwilling to pay that price, don’t be surprised when your freedom is taken away from you.