Win Exciting Prizes when you participate in Beta Pogram

Participate in a very important Beta (Titanium) Program and Win Exciting Prizes!

https://www.trendbeta.com/pages/index.php#

Time to Change my Password

I try to read News in Yahoo to become updated what is happening around me. It just come to me this article about Password. Yes, most of the people in this century have at least one personal password. From their personal bank account, personal computer login to business password, email or messenger account and even the personal cellphone we have.

So if your password is as simple as 123456 or abcde to your name, birthdate or as simple as iloveyou to password then be creative in making your password. My suggesstion is for you to use the nonalphanumeric characters like @, #, $, _,* and other characters yu can find in your keyboard. The bad thing in using this characters is that you tend to forgot your password. So the key is be creative, save it to a file wherein you personally will not let anyone will get interested to look at.

Thanks for the article below who then remind me to guard my personal accounts. =)

Link:
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/108641/If-your-password-is-123456-just-make-it-hack-me.html?mod=family-love_money

Zero-day: Number 1 search Engine Attack via Internet Explorer

Everyone is talking about China because of Google's decision to reevaluate its business operations due to its attack to their systems as one of te primary reasons.
It has been reported that the said attack distinctively targets Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights advocates in the United States, Europe and China.

Other search engines have similar report cases such as Yahoo! Dow Chemicals, and Northrop Grumman.

Security researches found thattargeted attcks use several vectors. In some cases, email messages loaded with malicious file attachments were sent to users. An exploit code taking advantage of the recently-patched vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat (CVE-2009-4324) was used to drop malware on affected systems.

Some of the attack's use of previous undetected vulnerabilty of Internet Explorer except 5.01 (CVE-2010-0249). In its recent Security Advisory, Microsoft acknowledged that this bug was indeed used to launch attacks against Google and other organizations, and recommended several workaround solutions to help reduce the impact of this bug on IE users.

In some recent work-around, I guess we could try using other web browser like Firefox. So I recommend update your browser or aplications with its latest patch. As I could see most of the malware now attack users which are not yet patch.

Virus Payload

1. Installation: How the malware is able to setup itself on the system to be able to run properly

2. Propagation: An act of malware to replicate for the purpose of spreading across different computers

3. Payload: Any malicious activity being done by the malware aside from installation and propagation

Know the Basic about Malware

Before anything else we need to know the basic about malware. As my trainer said, as malware now is so complex and vey hard to detect, clean or to remove we still have to know the basic about malware so we could easily learn the best aproach how to deal with it.

Malware is malicious software or computer program that performs malicious activities

Types of Malware

1. Virus
- Infect files
- Executable codes / programs
- Inserted into another executable code / program
Examples
- Boot virus
- Binary file infectors
- Multipartite viruses
- Macro viruses
- Script viruses

2. Worm
- A form of malware that creates a copy of itself and then sends itself over the network to infect other systems
- Methods of worm propagation
Email
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Instant Messaging (IM) Applications
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Applications
Network Shares
Vulnerability Exploits

3. Trojan

- A Trojan Horse is malware that does not have the capability to spread or propagate.
- Trojan Horse malware cannot propagate by themselves because they do not have the mechanism to send their own copy to another computer
- It gets into a users machine by riding on a third-party application that is trusted by the user
- The user is unaware that the system is infected

These are just the basic types of malware. I will share more information as we go with our journey in having a free malware world. Which I hope is possible.

Hello 2010, what happened last 2009

Its already 2010. But I would like to share what happened to me for the past months of 2009. There are so many things happened but let me just pointed out the things that are meaningful to me.

August - Nothing really happens. I just spend the whole month working.

September - The month of typhoon Ondoy. I spend my 24 hrs. in the office bacuse of this typhoon. Many places in Metro Manila especially Pasig, Marikina, Cainta and even our house in Quezon City got flooded.

October- I attended the Bowling Game in Paeng's Eastwood Bowling court. This is my birthday month and I just spend a simple celebration in our house. Thanks Marge for remembering me on my birthday!!!

I also volunteered to visit and check the status of my fellow Trenders located in Marikina whose affected by typhoon Ondoy.

November- I become a studio audience of Eat Bulaga.

I become a volunteer for an event of Haribon for A Million Hectare walk. This is an event which main goal is to get donations/pledges to plant endeginous trees all over the Philippines. I was able to got not just big money and donated it to Haribon organization.

December - I participated once more for Department Christmas presentation during our company's Christmas party. The part wherein I will always remember was during the part wherein I played the role for Backstreet boys. I was highlighted during its intro. Although we did not win, I still enjoyed it because once more I know that I have the talent. =)

I would like to thank God for all the blesssings. My life, my family, my work, my friends and everything I have. Thank you Lord God for blessing me this year 2009. In this coming year, I pray that God will continually bless me, my family and my work.

I also pray for peace, good health and better government this coming year. I also pray for a colorful love life I have.

I learned a lot this year. There are times when I feel like I failed but I am still grateful for these shortcomings motivated me to become a better person.

Happy New Year!!! Welcome 2010