Just received SMS from Kang Ifin telling me that batam.com got hacked! I immediately checked the website and found this:

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For those of you who are interested to see the website, BE CAREFULL as the hacker put trojan script / virus that may do harm to your computer. My Antivirus detected the trojan as “Exploit-MS06-014” & “VBS/Psyme“. That virus only got caught when I browsed the website using IE, but not Firefox

Oh man I’m a webmaster too, managing few websites that feed me and my family. Hope the hacker was kind enough that he did not delete any data from the server.

Patch – Backup – Pray

I just realized that today is my official 1st full month being Full Time “Abi”

For those of you who didn’t know the story, here is a brief one. I resigned from my previous company officially effective on Oct 15th and work at home since that time. It has been actually more than a month as I took all my leave balance, 19 days, prior my effective date and started my full day work at home.

Some said it was too “nekad“, some said it was too fast considering my age and experiences, and some other said move on and gave me encouragement on my decision. Regardless of whatever my friends told me, this decision was taken after a lot of consideration and discussions with my wife. She agreed with whatever I’m doing as long as I take full responsibility of it.

What am I doing now to get money? You guess lah …

Finally I got the time to change the theme for this a bit abandoned blog Anyway, still got a few things to check and fill in, but I’m now satisfy enough.

I’ve been so busy with Cyber Coral and its network lately. Hope I will get the time to update this blog frequently while maintaining other websites that feed me and my family

This theme has been used on my other websites like Batam Jobs, Cyber Coral, Scholarships Center & Singapore Jobs Today with a bit modification in graphics, layout and some scripts.

What do you think about my new theme?

I was just wanted to check out the latest news for my lovely city, Batam, on the internet. The first source would be from local online newspaper website, isn’t it

Hellooooo … Anybody home?

Latest buzz in Batam was about ATM Skimmer.

What is an ATM Skimmer? Thanks to Tech-Faq.

An ATM skimmer is a portable card reader that thieves attach to the front of a legitimate ATM (Automatic Teller Machine). The ATM skimmer is disguised as a normal ATM card reader.

ATM customers are tricked into inserting their ATM cards into the skimmer and entering their PIN codes on the keypads. The keypads are either replaced, or a hidden camera is placed to record the customers PIN as it is entered on the keypad.

The ATM skimmer either stores the card data, or uses a wireless transmitter to send it to a nearby receiver. Once the thieves have the data from the ATM card and the PIN, they can create a duplicate card and use it to withdraw money from the customers accounts.

Here some photos:

Camera on top of the screen:

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