Security


Ada-ada saja tingkah para scammer, sampai nama bu Sri Mulyani pun dipakai untuk memuluskan rencana mereka. Satu blog pendokumentasi para scammer melalui email, menampilkan contoh scam yang menggunakan nama Sri Mulyani. :) )

Kasus bobolnya rekening tabungan beberapa orang di Bali melalui modus skimming telah membuka mata banyak orang mengenai resiko bahaya dari kemudahan menarik uang melalui ATM.

Di Indonesia, pihak Bank dengan mudah melemparkan tanggung jawab kepada nasabah. Tetapi di Jepang, tanggung jawab mengamankan ATM adalah tanggung jawab pihak Bank. Karena area ATM adalah area yang dimilik oleh Bank, dan bukan nasabah. Karena itu di Jepang, terutama dulu, banyak ATM tidak buka 24 jam.

Sekarang pun, walau memberikan layanan 24 jam, tetap diawasi dengan berbagai macam cara. Karena itu tadi, area ATM adalah area milik Bank, dan sudah seharusnya pihak Bank bertanggung jawab penuh.

Nah, untuk yang berada di Indonesia, sangat dianjurkan agar mempersiapkan diri dengan pengetahuan-pengetahuan penting. Terutama bagi yang suka menarik uang melalui ATM, silahkan baca baik-baik penjelasan Commonwealth Bank ini. Filenya juga bisa diunduh disini

(updated) perseteruan R[S|A] in a nutshell

According to WSJ.com’s article, in term of censorship Iran can do more by doing deep packet inspection compare to China.

But it is understandable as Iran’s Internet user is 23 million, compare to China’s 300 million strong. Because of China’s geography, China’s monitoring infrastructure is decentralized, compare to Iran’s centralized policy. Because of this policy, when Iran activated deep packet inspection to monitor traffics, users felt an access slow down especially after the June 2009 election.

If your default browser is Internet Explorer, than I have to say sorry for you that you need to stop using it for the time being, until your computer was remotely rebooted by Microsoft.

For more information, read Microsoft Security Advisory about this problem, as the Zero-day IE exploit already patched.

For those of you who use Firefox, you don’t need to worry :)

Skype’s text messaging has been compromised in China. Although apparently the problem is limited within China, this incident showed us that you cannot trust anyone even to those who already made public promised.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos from Network World wrote What we don’t seem to have much is communal defense. It is very rare to find a system that is equally concerned with outgoing traffic and the impact it has on others. Actually, research trend in security is going to that direction.

In the past, we cannot do that because resource limitation on network devices. Thus, almost no one think about to empower the devices. But now, with CPU more speedier, memory more spacious, HDD more spacious, we can afford to have that capability. One small effort on that is research on Quarantine Network. Previous effort is an automatic virus reporting capability built in anti virus program installed.

I don’t know whether I should put this post in a Joke category or serious one. Anyway, I found an interesting article in The Register, about a survey that found “Women are four times more likely than men to give out ‘passwords’ in exchange for chocolate bars”.

Cukup pernyataan kecil dibawah:

“We wanted to spend as little time as possible coming up with an exploit, so we picked Mac OS X.” said Charlie Miller,

Selengkapnya silahkan dibaca di ComputerWorld

Nick Breese, memanfaatkan PS3 untuk melakukan cracking password.

Ada yg mau beliin PS3? :)

Para pemilik PS3 juga bisa membantu upaya Folding@Home di Stanford University memecahkan teka-teki dalam bioteknologi terkait hubungan protein dan penyakit. Dalam berita tertanggal 27 Maret 2007 di The Times, tercatat sudah 25ribu pemilik PS3 yg terlibat. Kemampuan pengolahan (processing powers) dari 25ribu PS3 ini setara dengan 990 teraflops atau 70% dari total kemampuan pengolahan skema Folding@Home. Sisa 30%, didapat dari 300ribu PC lain (=100 teraflops).

An interesting data reported by Washington Post:

“House Government Reform Committee Chairman Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.) and ranking Democrat Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) wrote 17 Cabinet-level departments and agencies to ask whether they had experienced any similar incidents. Of the 14 that have responded so far, either in whole or in part, the Commerce Department looks far and away the worst, owning up to the loss of more than 1,000 agency computers. But what about the three departments that have not responded? Do they have bigger problems? And these three would be . . .? Treasury, Defense, and Health and Human Services. Oh, well — none of them has sensitive information about Americans.”

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