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I get annoyed when parent associations insist that the Government needs to teach science and maths in English.

From: jibby@Malaysia.gov Sent: 23 Dec 2015 To: orangbawah@Malaysia.gov Subject: Cybersecurity Year end message.

3-4 weeks ago, I pimped myself an interview on BFM, and yesterday it finally aired.

[caption id=“attachment_5307” align=“aligncenter” width=“550”] Pic from TheMalaysianInsider, Tip to newsmen: Next time blur out the photos and names on the ID tags as well.

In 2016, Chip and Pin will gradually be introduced in Malaysia, that means your Credit Cards now will prompt you for a PIN instead of signature during purchases.

There’s been some controversy recently regarding the Air Pollutant Index (API) readings in Malaysia, with some even accusing the government of intentionally downplaying the readings.

Passwords have always been a problem.

By now, you either know someone that’s been a victim of nasty malware or have yourself been on the business end of nefarious software.

Google reported that 91 per cent of its Malaysian respondents are “multi-screening” with their smartphones, meaning that while watching TV, or working a laptop, Malaysians were at the VERY SAME TIME, using their phones.

Not to beat a dead horse now, (you can read my previous articles here and here)but I’ll say it one last time, internet speeds aren’t exactly what we should be debating over these days.

The simplest definition of a hacker, is someone who breaks systems.

Two weeks ago, Lowyat.net published a ‘challenge’ to their readers, one that would supposedly pay a cool RM100,000 to the winner.All you had to do was decrypt an AES-256 encoded blob of code (more accurately referred to as ciphertext).

While anonymity on the internet is slowly dying, there remain legitimate reasons for wanting to keep your online identity a secret from those meddling kids, governments or snooping criminals.

Got Maxis Fiber to your home, but want to change your WiFi passwords, then here’s how you do it.

The pipe that brings water into your home is a pretty un-sexy thing, just like the electrical cables that deliver electricity.

A notice posted on the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission’s (MCMC) Facebook page said the decision was made to block websites that “promote, spread information and encourage people to join the Bersih 4 demonstration”, on grounds that this…

Are you afraid of Hackers?

Our newly appointed Communication Minister has come out all guns blazing in directing the The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to ask social media giants such as Facebook, Google and Twitter soon to block “false information and ru…

The latest buzz in Malaysian cyberspace is the ’threat’ from Anonymous Malaysia to launch ‘internet warfare’ on the Malaysian government, singling out our poor ol’ Prime Minister, demanding that he step down or face the consequences of Anonymous actions.

I need to take this blog to somewhere it hasn’t been.

Sarawakreport, a website covering sensitive political topics in Malaysia was blocked today by the countries most prominent ISP, Telekom Malaysia (TM).

[caption id=“attachment_5085” align=“aligncenter” width=“550”] A screenshot of the RCS Software from Hacking Team[/caption] There are two types of governments in the world, Those that build complex surveillance software to spy on their citizens, and those…

First off, apologies for the lack of content on the blog.

A couple of weeks back, the guys over at infoversal loaned me a Engenius ESR600 router for a review, at first I was a bit hesitant, but my overall unhappiness with my TP-link router made me think twice.

There was a time when the internet was young, just a little fledgling network, an academic toy used only by computer scientist to try out theoretical concepts.

The new Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) in Malaysia should not be considered in isolation but rather in the context of the 6 other anti-terrorism Bills that were concurrently proposed.

What’s the price of falling in love?

Today I attended an Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) event about the TPP.

I strongly believe the Goods and Service Tax is a good idea.

Recently a court in Malaysia ruled that the newly amended evidence act could presume an IP address would uniquely identify a user of a network, and in the case of an Internet IP address, enough to tie an IP to the individual subscriber.

Last week visitors browsing to Google’s Malaysia website were greeted with a big bold image stating the website was hacked.

In case anyone needs my PGP key to send me encrypted e-mails.

The team over at the FireEye threat intelligence published a special report(pdf) detailing an long running (and still on-going) cyber-espionage operation that has targeted multiple entities in ASEAN countries, including Malaysia.

Last month, a company called MDSec released a video detailing how they manage to brute force hack an iPhone PIN lock.

Earlier this week I attended a MDeC organized private meeting with Richard Stirling from the Open Data Institute (ODI).The ODI is an institution that hopes to promote the ‘open data’ culture, and founded by a giant of the Tech world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee,…

It’s now almost two years on, since that fateful day at the Mira Hotel in Hong Kong when Edward Snowden divulged secret NSA documents detailing unlawful and on-going spying programs carried out in the name of security.

[caption id=“attachment_4859” align=“alignleft” width=“256”] Apache runs nearly 50% of all active websites[/caption] Recently I moved the hosting for keithRozario.com from a regular hosted platform called WPWebhost to my own Virtual machine on digitalOcea…

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Today I read that our beloved Education Minister is ‘SHOCKED’ that Malaysian students are not on par with their foreign counterparts.

The US Government host a really cool website called “We the People”, that let’s users petition the US Government for various things.

Last week was a pretty exciting week for me--it was my first time on TV.

As the 1MDB fiasco begins to simmer over the political stove, I wanted to inject some technical information into this discussion, specifically around emails and how they’re almost useless pieces of evidence.

I've stopped scrapping the API readings for Malaysia, as the MET department have stopped publishing historical readings on their website.

Late in January the Malaysian Airlines website was ‘supposedly’ hacked by Lizard Squad.

Got this email from the people over at Unotelly: I want to inform you that UnoTelly will allow people stream the NFL Super Bowl for free on Sunday, February 1, regardless of where they live or whether they are UnoTelly subscribers.

Step 1: Logon to your router To logon to your router, fire up your web-browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari–even Internet Explorer will do).

As we come to terms with the terrible events that occurred at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, I think we need to be cognizant of what these attacks really mean, and how our response to these events (even in far away Malaysia) has severe repercussions on our…

Yesterday I Googled something about maxis that took me to a forum.maxis.com.my link.

A couple of days back, I was at my in-laws doing some browsing on their PC.

Environment News Service, an environmental focused news website this week accused Malaysian government hackers of attacking it after it ran a story implicating Sarawak governor Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud of corruption and graft.