I’m very happy to announce my latest project, the migration and restoration of Littlearchers.com. Little Archers Learning Center is a school with branches at Paranaque, Makati and MOA Pasay (Facebook page here). It’s owned by my friend Noni Odulio who I met when he would very graciously invite me to play basketball with his regular …
Here is an article re the 2000 ‘I Love You’ virus and its author Onel de Guzman from Pandacan Manila. He was only a student at the time and is now 44yo working as a phone tech. The bug is estimated to have caused US$5.5–8.7 billion in damages worldwide and had cost US$15 billion to …
Have We Really Learned Anything from ‘I Love You’? Read More »
So it’s official, after 34 weeks my gig as Technical Consultant with TIEZA has come to an end, no doubt helped by government austerity measures particularly in relation to tourism. A few days ago I received a copy of my final contract. It is not hard to explain how I feel. I feel nothing but …
Introduction: This assumes everything is normal and we wouldn’t have to implement this during a pandemic. I wrote this a while back when I was working for a government client who could actually have implemented the social engineering part of this. Later on I worked for another government client that gave me the experience to …
I haven’t explained anything in a while but today I’d like to explain the concept of the API, or Application Programming Interface. The audience are absolute beginners or people who say ‘wala akong alam sa computer’. A lot of programmers are busy these days talking about this due to the virus. So this is a …
The CPanel we offer has Web Disk functionality that allows the user to quickly upload files via drag and drop from their Windows (what I’m using here), Mac, Android or Linux computer. These can be accessed later on by yourself or anyone you share it with. Perfect for sharing files so groups can work together …
UPDATE on Jill’s blog. To recap, Jill’s Personal finance blog https://frugalhoney.com was suffering a denial of service (DOS) brought about by a Brute Force attack. A brute force attack is when the website is made so busy trying to serve pages that it essentially hangs. After I backed up the site and made it run …
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So i’ve confirmed that Jill’s site https://frugalhoney.com is going through a brute-force attack. A brute force attack is software that does two things. 1. keep trying to guess a password and 2. tie up the login page of the website disallowing anything else. Think of yourself as a bad guy and you do not want …
So jill’s Personal Finance website https://frugalhoney.com may or may not have been hacked. I say ‘may have been’ because Server logs showed classic hack signs such as brute-forcing wp-login.php and wp-admin.php, the key wordpress files to try and access the dashboard. For a site that gets only less than 200 visits a day that’s suspicious. …
Here is an attempt to explain Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Maria regularly sends and receives letters to and from Juan. Sometimes they’re Statement of Accounts and sometimes it’s just a grocery list. Regardless its between Maria and Juan and no one else’s business. Unfortunately Zhang Wei for some reason wants to see them. So he’s …
