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Paypal introduces security key texted to your mobile (SMS)

paypal logo Paypal introduces security key texted to your mobile (SMS)

Paypal has taken a security measure to the next level, maybe on par with financial institution’s internet banking with a new security feature.

Familiar with Maybank‘s TAC (transaction authorization code)?? If you’re a Maybank’s internet banking user, sure you’ll be. So, this one has almost similar concept with that.

The new feature is the extension of the Paypal Security Key token introduced earlier. Besides the key being generated from the token, there is another option where the key is now sent to your registered mobile phone.

But wait, this security feature is at present not available in most countries including Malaysia. The lucky ones are United States, Australia, Austria, Canada and Germany. Paypal account holders from these countries can register via registration page.

No second security layer to us just yet, so make sure you secured your account sufficiently.

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Admin 26 November 2008 security , , , 4 Comments

You’re too vulnerable to attack from harmful email via Facebook

Despite Facebook’s victory against spam, on which Facebook won lawsuit against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital, which slapped with massive 800 millions charge, this doesn’t seem to send a tough ‘signal’ to them.

This nut is tough to be cracked right?

It was a ‘historic day’ yesterday, when I’m among the luckiest ones who received spam from them. It’s not me alone actually, but it seems that it spreads among the circle of friends in Facebook.

At a glance, this email looks legit. Yes it does, since this email was sent from legit Facebook email adress, and it was sent by your ‘friend’.

But the truth is, this is not something that they intend to do. The account is being manipulated by ‘unauthorized’ party to fool you and hence trick you to click on the harmful links. No clue how it was done, but it could be due to the carelessness of the users, when accepting/using certain applications that require you to agree on T&C (without reading any further) and then to notify all your friends. This is just my wild guess though.

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But lucky me, Firefox prevents this page from being opened. I’m then certain on what is inside(something bad) but what will happen if I’m using Internet Explorer or Chrome, would it effectively kill this threat like Firefox??

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It is quite troublesome to identify which one is legit or otherwise. You’re vulnerable to any attacks regardless how cautious you are.

In this case, keep yourself reminded not to open any Facebook requests sent via email. And, control which email you want to receive from the setting page.

Admin 26 November 2008 spam , , , , 2 Comments

WordPress 2.6.5 release

wordpress Wordpress 2.6.5 release

WordPress 2.6.5 had just been released, to fix 1 security issue and 3 bugs.

There release is purely bug and security update, no enhancement or new features released.

More technical part can be found here

Luckily there is automated upgrade plugin, so upgrading no longer a headache.

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Admin 26 November 2008 Wordpress , 2 Comments

Experimenting Zoho

So far, Google Doc is the only web office suite that I’ve used. I don’t like the idea of signing in to different websites. I prefer all in one suite such as Windows Live but with greater web experience.

Zoho is not a new name and is among the pioneers in office suite, and in fact the first that allows editing offline by utilizing Google Gear, even before Google doc used it on its Google Doc.

Zoho allows signing in using Google ID, and that is the reason why I really want to use it. And it offers more than what Google Doc has.

Borrowing Zoho’s sentence, Zoho is a collection of collaboration & productivity tools for personal and business purposes, applicable for everybody’s usage. Screen shot below is a part of what Zoho offers.

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1. Sign Up – Accept your Google or Yahoo ID. By default, this is your main menu. You’re allocated @zoho email account.
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There are 2 versions available :

a. Zoho Personal (personal free edition, consisting of 10 free applications) – Is the default menu, where you access your personal applications.

  • Calendar
  • Documents – It is like my document
  • Desktop
  • Writer – doc
  • Sheet – excel
  • Show – power point
  • Wiki – Creating you own wiki
  • Tasks
  • Notes – It is not, but not too sure what it is, it is like what we want to be reminded of
  • Links – Bookmark tool
  • Contacts

b. Zoho Creator (business pack) – Consists of applications for business. There are bunches of applications for selection.

On the free account, you can install up to 10 applications which give you full functionality, but with limited number of projects. Go for paid version for unlimited applications and projects.

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3. Zoho Marketplace – Part of business suites. Here you can browse other business apps, what’s popular and what’s recent applications. Apart from that, if you need a new solution not in the marketplace, you can submit the request and Zoho team will help find the solution.

4. Zoho Plugin – Plugin for web browser, iPhone, Outlook, windows mobile and etc.

5. Zoho Utilities -Besides the applications and plugins mentioned above, there are also utilities which require separate registration.

  • Site 24×7 – Website monitoring tool. There is a free version.
  • Zoho Polls – To create polls.
  • Zoho Viewer – Sharing documents with your friends. Upload many types of files and share it with others with an option of setting the expiry date.
  • Zoho Challenge – Online testing tool.

My cent: Foooh!! I can’t go through each applications in detail, too much!! I’ll use Zoho Personal and few applications from Zoho Creator such as project management and customer support.

Admin 25 November 2008 Software , 3 Comments

Jobs@Lowyat.net – a new job portal in town

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Have no luck in finding jobs with the established job portals? Try Jobs@Lowyat, the new kids on the block. Lowyat.net needs no introduction to Malaysians. In the past few years, the portal which is very popular with its forum has grown tremendously. It has sub sites such as Multiplay (for gamers) and Wheels under its roof.

Jobs@Lowyat, the new addition to Lowyat.net, is still in beta, with 39 jobs posted at present, where most of them in IT related industry.

If you’re used with other job portals such as Jobstreet.com, you’ll notice how ‘lite’ this portal is. On the job listing, jobs are categorized by its industry type, and is viewable via separate tabs for ease of navigating. Each job shows how many applicants has applied for the job.

Job seeker -No registration required, thus each job applications require you to fill in a simple form and upload your resume.

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Employer – No registration required as well. Anyone can post jobs here by filling a simple form and upload the job details.

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There is also widgets to display jobs available on any web pages, but somehow it’s not working here.

With current economic crisis sprawling all over the world, job portals are among the most sought after websites on the net. If you’re one of the unlucky in this crisis, don’t let it bring you down with nonsense act like this.

Those whom are still unemployed, keep your effort up. Pay day is not the only source of income. Look around you and you’ll be suprised with other unnoticed opportunities.

Admin 24 November 2008 Jobs & Career , , , 3 Comments
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