Maybank2u.com Phishing Email

Can you believe this? I just received an email from Maybank saying that my maybank2u account was blocked due to inactivity or 'becouse' of too many failed login attempts. They asking me to logon the link to restore my account!



Of course, i know this is a phishing email. As online banking become more popular, M2u as the Malaysia's best online banking provider also become target of criminals. For those who are using online banking apps, please be more careful and never click on a url link in email to access the online banking portal.

The term ‘phishing’ describes a scam, or fraud, designed to obtain private information like passwords and credit card numbers. Usually, criminals carry out phishing attacks by pretending to be a trusted party tricking you to reveal your online banking username & password.

Disable Read & Write to USB diskdrive/pendrive

In response to query from Bojovic based on my previous post Disable Write to USB Drive Harddisk & Pendrive



Below are steps to totally disable the use of USB harddrive and pendrive from your computer.
1) run the regedit
2) Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR

3) then locate for name 'start', type 'REG_DWORD' and set the value to 4

note: if later you decide to allow the use of USB harddrive and pendrive, just set the 'REG_DWORD' value to 3.

All About Technology's Weekly Recap

Weekly recap from 23/06 - 27/06.
1) How to snoop into google security cameras
- keywords to search in google to snoop into unsecured security cameras

2) Michael Jackson
- deepest condolences to MJ

3) Open source proxy server
- steps to setup your own proxy server for free

4) Microsoft Bing
- introduce Microsoft's latest search engine

5) Disable write to USB drive
- disclose how you can disable write to USB harddrive/pendrive from your PC

How to Snoop into Google Security Cameras

Try below keywords in Google search for hacking into Google's security cameras.
1) inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode=
2) intitle:Axis 2400 video server
3) inurl:/view.shtml
4) intitle:"Live View / - AXIS" | inurl:view/view.shtml^

After the search, open the search result in new web browser, then you can take control of the camera.
You can try below url:
1) http://125.206.34.118/cgi-bin/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Resolution=640x480&Quality=Motion&Interval=10&Size=STD&PresetOperation=Move&Language=0

2) http://www.cherrytreeinn.com:8080/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Language=0

3) http://24.39.100.161:82/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Language=1

4) http://129.125.136.20/view/index.shtml

Enjoy!

Michael Jackson: 1958-2009

'King of pop' passed away in Los Angeles, at age of 50 after suffering a cardiac arrest. for sure, he will always in our hearts. My deepeset condolences to his family.

Open Source Proxy Server

Do you know that you can setup your own proxy server on Google App Engine with GAppProxy for FREE. GAppProxy is written in Python and run on the Google App Engine. The greatest advantage of the application is you do not need a dedicated server and the speed is very fast.

Before begin, you must register a Google App Engine account and create an application as GAppProxy. Then go to http://code.google.com/p/gappproxy/downloads/list to download GAppProxy, run gui.exe, configure your web browser with HTTP proxy set to 127.0.0.1:8000. Now, you can access the internet via the proxy server.

Microsoft's BING!

Let's 'bing the world'. Microsoft introduce its latest search engine 'BING', to replace its not so popular MSN Search.

Bing has the ability to display a summary of the site that you are searching, just at the right panel of the page whenever you scroll over the list of search result. Currently the Bing is quite clear in the sense that there is no ads here and there compare to Google. See below pictures for the comparison.

Disable Write to USB drive Harddisk & Pendrive

Nowadays USB port & pendrive become very common. It creates security concern for large organizations that anyone can simply plug-in a pendrive or USB harddisk to steal the corporate data.

In fact there is a registry hack that can disable the read/write access to USB devices altogether. User cannot copy data to the USB disk storage, nor able to read any files and documents from the USB drive.



But, if you only want to disallow write access and allow read access, then there is another registry hack of WriteProtect in StorageDevicePolicies registry key that you can make use of. Just follow below few steps:
1) run the regedit
2) Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

3) Create a New Key named as StorageDevicePolicies

4) Highlight StorageDevicePolicies, and then create a New DWORD (32-bit) Value named as WriteProtect

5) Double click on WriteProtect, and set its value data to 1.

What is ChessTweets?

ChessTweets is the newest generation of correspondence chess. ChessTweets uses the Twitter API to send chess moves remotely to your opponent by using any of Twitter's versatile status update methods. With a Twitter account, play a quick game against a friend or start a correspondence game for free and without any registration required!


You need to be patient because it takes some times for the moves. Currently, moves in public games are tallied manually on a rough 24-hour basis. Once hit a critical mass, moves will be tallied by some automated time schedule, whether it be exactly once every 24 hours or after x valid move votes have been submitted.

Inactive private games are kept on ChessTweets for 10 days. If a game is inactive for longer than this period the game will be resolved in one of two ways:

• If the game has progressed less than 5 full turns (10 valid moves by both White and Black), the game will be deleted with no stat collection or elo rating changes.
• If the game has progressed more than 5 full turns (10 valid moves by both White and Black), the inactive player will be forced to resign, and the corresponding stat collection and elo rating changes will take place.

Searching the web using Yauba

Yauba is a new, experimental, Indian search engine that seeks to transform the way people find information online, while providing maximum protection for their safety, security and privacy. Launched in "early beta/late alpha" mode on March 2009 after stealth development in Bangalore, Delhi, and London, Yauba is based on over 25 years of cutting edge research from the Indian Institutes of Technology, the University of Delhi, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley. As a result, Yauba offers some of the most advanced Internet technologies, features, and innovations in the world.

Yauba do not track your cookies or store any of your information. They are truly intelligent with distributed electronic semantic intelligence (DESI) algorithms and word-sense disambiguation extraction technologies can automatically identify the referential "meanings" embedded in various search terms.

Aztech Skype Phone

The Aztech V500DS-S1 is a stand-alone Skype DECT phone that allows users to access both the PSTN and Skype network. The phone is implemented with an embedded Skype software, which incorporates most of the Skype features such as Voicemail, call forwarding and Skype-In/Skype-Out services.


There is no need to have the Skype application running on a PC (No PC is required make Skype calls). Once the base station is connected to the Internet, the handset will become an embedded Skype device, and the user can make Skype-to-Skype calls, or Skype In/Out calls with fixed-line numbers.

The Skype user contact list is shown on a 1.5” colour handset screen. The users can easily see their contacts’ status and profiles, as well as their Skype credit balances for SkypeOut. New users can be added on the handset.


There are separate call lists for both the PSTN and Skype Calls, and the users can easily identity the call lists as either from PSTN or Skype. The phone has speakerphone, keypad backlight and polyphonic ring tones as standard features.

Happy Birthday to Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky ? When i saw this front page in google search, i also wonder who is Igor Stravinsky ? According to Wikipedia, Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, considered by many to be one of the most important and influential composers of 20th century music.

He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the century. In addition to the recognition he received for his compositions, he also achieved fame as a pianist and a conductor, often at the premieres of his works.


Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Tsarist Russia on 17 June, 1882. His father, Fyodor, was a famous opera singer in the St. Petersburg Imperial Opera. Determined that his children would have more secure professional lives, he insisted that young Igor prepare for a less chancy career, so Igor began his studies in law at university in 1901. In 1902 Stravinsky met Rimsky-Korsakov (one of Russian's leading nationalist composers), and on his father's death later that same year, he began his formal musical composition studies.

Retrieve Hotmail via Google Mail

Now, you no longer need to access hotmail account in order to view your email in hotmail. What you need to do is just perform a simple account setup in Google Mail to retrieve your hotmail emails.

Technically this can be done is due to hotmail now support POP3 partly & Gmail will download the hotmail emails using POP3.

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Follow steps below:
1) Click the Setting, then Account
2) click 'add a mail account you own' in the Get mail from other accounts column (ref: pic 1)
3) then enter your hotmail address
4) then set username=hotmail username, set POP Server=pop3.live.com, and set port=995, at last, select all the three checkbox below (ref: pic 2)

URL Redirection Services - FREE

Like other link shorteners, BurnURL will shorten your long url in the form of in the form of http://burnurl.com/xxxxxxx.

The service is useful when you have a long url and need to post it at twitter or facebook. Twitter only allow 140 characters for each tweet. After you 'burned' your url, it will generate a direct link (useful in twitter, facebook), html code (useful in myspace, personal website) and BBcode (useful in web forums).

Broken Links Tracking

Tired of tracing broken links in your blog or website ? As a webmaster, it is important to always make sure there is no broken links in your site. Ignoring the broken links in your site will deteriorate the quality of the site regardless how good the content and layout of the site.



Linkpatch will solve all your headache for broken links. Also, it will trace the missing image and error page in your site and send notification to you via email. Linkpatch also able to trace the link from other sites to your outdated pages you have moved.

You can try the service free for 30 days!

Facebook Vanity URL

What is vanity url ??? is it useful for the facebooker ? Vanity url is a customized link for your profile. Currently our facebook url looks something like http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=999999999 which is meaningless to us. With the vanity url, your facebook url will be http://www.facebook.com/"your-name" which is more meaningful & easy for your friends to locate your profile.

In fact, this vanity url is not something new in the www. Twitter and LinkedIn have had this capability for quite some time.

As at now, there is no any link or button for the facebook users to set their vanity url. But, it is still possible to set your vanity url. Just go to http://facebook.com/username there you will have the option to set your vanity url. Once it's been selected, you won't be able to change or transfer it.

Nintendo wii & the internet

Experience the joys of gaming or surfing the net with Nintendo wii. Wii is not just a gaming console, it brings a revolution of interactive gaming to people of all ages.

How can you connect to internet using wii ? here are some steps to setup:
1) Choose wired or wireless connection of your broadband
2) click wii, wii setting
3) click to next page, then click 'internet'
4) click 'connection setting', then 'connection 1'
5) click 'wireless connection'
6) click 'search for an access point'
7) click ok and choose your access point and your ready to connect.

Apple iphone for USD99 only

Can u believe this? Apple slashed the entry price for an iPhone in half to only $99, announced by Philip Schiller, Apple Senior Vice President for Worldwide Product Marketing. Instead of paying $199, now you only pay $99 for the 8-gigabyte iphone 3GS. A 16-gigabyte version of the 3G S will cost $199 and a 32-gigabyte version will be $299.

The latest iphone operate with faster and more energy efficient processor. According to Apple this allows the new iPhone 3GS to run up to two times faster than the previous version.

Note: When the iphone debuted 2 years ago, a 4-gigabyte version cost $499 & 8GB cost $599.

Google Wave

What is Google Wave? Wave is Shared, Wave is Live, Wave is Collaborations. It means being on the go instantly, where you can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, and maps. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time. You can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.



The wave will be launched later this year. Let's wait for the wave.




Video: Developer's Preview at Google I/O

Terminator Salvation - The Game

Remember, now you are John Connor, Your mission is to save the world! You will assume the role of John Connor, fighting against the Terminator sent by Skynet.

The game available in PS3, Xbox 360 & PC.

Genre : 3rd person shooter
Characters : John Connor
Official Website: http://www.terminatorsalvationthegame.com

Windows XP Phone

The world's 1st mobile phone to run on windows xp was released at the Computex exhibition in Taipei. Windows XP Phone will be using chips from AMD, made by In Technology in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.

The phone has a 120GB hard disk and a 4.8 inch LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, it supports WIFI, WIMAX & GPS. Windows XP Phone will be available in China markets around 3 months times and later worldwide.

NOTE: no screenshot available for the phone yet.

Recover Deleted files

Wanted to recover deleted files after you emptying the recycle bin for FREE? You can try Recuva (pronounced "recover"), it is a freeware.

How Recuva works:
1) Scanning for deleted files
2) Results of scan shown in a list view
3) Select the files that you want to recover