CSRF Router Attack

The hack, albeit simple obtains elevated permissions to access as well as change the DNS setting. The domain name system (DNS) works by translating human-friendly domain names (e.g. www.google.com) into IP addresses that applications use to access web servers.

Team Cymru, the security research group that uncovered the hack disclosed a report of the large-scale attack being made possible by a vulnerability that allows hackers to override the login web interface of TP-Link routers.

The attack was reported to be affecting routers from India, Vietnam, Italy, Thailand and Colombia. The implications of the hack is far-reaching as DNS servers serves to redirect users to the correct IP address. With a compromised DNS resolver, a hacker can easily masquerade a banking website and steal banking usernames and passwords.

Checking for the Hack

To check if you were hacked, the compromised DNS setting would spell 5.45.75.11 and 5.45.76.36. So far attempts to contact the hosting providers of these DNS servers were ignored.
A good security measure against this attack as well as to safeguard against future attacks is to disable the router’s remote management features. This way, any login through the internet will be blocked, and your router can only be accessed locally through Wi-Fi or the direct local area network (LAN) cables.

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Internet Access Here Sign (Photo credit: Steve Rhode)

Internet Speed in the Philippines

In its latest “State of the Internet” survey, Akamai ranks the Philippines in 101st place among all countries surveyed for average internet connection speeds. Recording an average rate of 1.1Mbps, it is ranked 12^th among the 13 countries surveyed in Asia Pacific.

Despite being included in the Top 20, the Philippines is the only country in the region which showed a decline in peak speed. Broadband adoption, however, rose 15% from the previous quarter, as a result of more local broadband providers offering affordable plans and bundled features. Akamai reports that 79% of Filipinos now enjoy speeds above 5Mbps.

Business Processes Depending Internet

Most businesses use the internet for a large portion of their day-to-day operations. For a regular employee, a typical day requires sending and receiving emails, online research, ordering products, doing inventories, and other similar tasks. Slow internet connection in the workplace definitely affects productivity.

Delay Product Development

How can web developers input their codes if they can’t even load the page source due to an extremely slow connection? How can the content writers do their research? How can web designers tweak Uis if they cannot even access the website host?

Tech startup companies will definitely suffer if internet is unreliable. In simpler terms, “No network connection means no work done.”

Not Achieving the Real-Time Experience

Using landlines or cellular phones to make international calls could be very expensive. Communication tools like Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, or Google Chat offer great convenience—they allow you to chat with and even call clients anywhere in the world. If your internet connection is too slow, these tools would essentially be  useless. The only way you can take advantage of them is if you have reliable and unlimited internet connection.

Internet Providers in the Philippines

Listed below are a few telecommunication companies that offer unlimited internet for business purposes. Check out their features and see what suits you best:

PLDT’s Fibr Plan

This broadband plan costs PHP20,000 with an internet TV feature. Though this plan is originally intended for home use, the 100Mbps is definitely good for business use. With such a speed, you can browse multiple websites in a matter of seconds. The plan also features fast streaming via Clickplay and My Pinoy TV, plus 87 Cignal digital TV channels.

GlOBE Business Plan

Globe offers a variety of plans in affordable prices starting from PHP799 to less than PHP5000. You may avail of the unlimited data plan that comes together with mobile devices. There are also broadband plans that offer free wireless telephone and router. Check out Globe’s website for more details.

SMART BRO

Smart BRO Enterprise Edition offers reliable LAN-to-Internet fixed wireless broadband connectivity. It uses “fixed wireless” technology, which provides a speedier connection compared to DSL (digital subscriber line) internet. This dependable internet service can support companies that require bandwidth-intensive, business-critical multimedia applications. The SMART BRO plan includes an antenna that can be mounted indoor or outdoor.

These are but a few internet plans ideal for startup businesses, as well as large corporations with remote offices or multiple branches. You can also check out more available plans from BayanTel, SUN Cellular, Sky Cable, Wi-Tribe, and a handful of other local providers.

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U Mobile Prepaid Unlimited Mobile Internet Plan

U Mobile offers 250MB Data with their new Unlimited Mobile Internet Plan for RM18/month which is called as UMI 18. For as low as RM18/month, you will get a bundle of 250MB of data, 25 minutes of free calls to all networks and 25 free SMS to all networks with 30 days validity. The unutilised minutes and SMS can be carried forward to next month but limited to a maximum of 50 minutes and 50 SMS. When you have exceeded your 250MB quota, you can still use for free but download speed will be throttled down to 64kbsp.

As for UMI28, you will be given 500MB (unlimited but download speed will be throttled down to 64kbsp after 500MB), 100 minutes of free calls and 30 SMS. Free calls are applicable to all networks, anywhere in Malaysia except for special numbers ie 1800 numbers.

Prepaid Unlimited Mobile Internet Plan UMI 18 and UMI 28

How to subscribe? All you have to do is follow the steps below :-

• STEP 1 – Dial *118#
• STEP 2 – Select 3 for ‘Mobile Services’
• STEP 3 – Select 1 for ‘Unlimited Mobile Internet’
• STEP 4 – Select the Unlimited Mobile Internet Plan that you want

For more information, you can visit U Mobile page.

DiGi Offers Free Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Check out DiGi’s webpage here for more information.

It will be launched tomorrow on the 19th October  at the venues as below :-

Blue Cube @ Publika Shopping Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (Time : 10.00am – 10.00pm)
Blue Cube @ Pavilion Kuala Lumpur (Time : 10.00am – 10.00pm)
Celcom outlet @ Taman Molek, Johor Bahru (Time : 9.00am – 5.00pm)
Celcom outlet @ Bangunan KWSP, Penang (Time : 9.00am – 5.00pm)

Best of all is you can get free flip casing worth RM149 tomorrow at the launch if you are the first 100 customers at Blue Cube Publika and Pavilion, and the first 50 customers at Taman Molek, JB and Bangunan KWSP, Penang outlets. On top of the free casing, you can also get KFC voucher worth RM40 and Free 6-month MUSICUBE subscription which apply to all customers that subscribe tomorrow. You can also stand a chance to win a Samsung Galaxy S III or exclusive tickets to watch JLo or Siti Nurhaliza live in concert by taking part in the lucky draws that will be held at the launch venue stated above.

Celcom is offering three voice plan options bundled with Samsung Galaxy Note II which include Celcom First Prime 40, Celcom First Premier 80 and Celcom First Elite 150 either with 1GB or 3GB data quota. The contract duration will be either 12 months and 18 months. Celcom is offering Galaxy Note II for RM1,498 when you sign up for 18 months contract of Celcom First Elite with 3GB data for RM150/month. You need to pay advance payment of RM250 to RM450 depending on your voice plan and it will be rebated from your first bill onwards depending on your usage. Check out the image below for detailed pricing of different plans. 

You may check out Celcom’s page here for further information.

HTC J Butterfly

While manufacturers such as HTC and Samsung have been pushing for larger and larger smartphone screens over the past few years, screen resolutions have not really caught up. This has left many larger screened phones with relatively low image qualities, despite having seemingly high resolutions.

The J Butterfly not only has a 5 inch Super LCD 3 screen but combines this with an impressive 1920 x 1080 resolution, resulting in a staggering 440 pixel per inch (ppi) quality. When Apple launched the iPhone 4 back in 2010, with its “Retina” display, it had been fairly boastful about the 326 ppi quality. While some Android phones have since surpassed this ppi, none have yet got to the impressive quality offered by the J Butterfly. Of course, anything higher than the iPhone’s ppi is impossible to detect with the human eye, Apple will tell you, but it is still a sign of things to come.

The J Butterfly will run on Android Jelly Bean with HTC Sense 4+, which looks markedly different to earlier versions of Sense. While the screen is certainly the most talked about aspect of the J Butterfly, it comes with an impressive amount of hardware at its disposal too. A 1.5GHz quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor and 2GB RAM will make this one of the most powerful phones around, in Japan at least.

Many of its features will be specifically geared towards the Japanese market, including the ability to stream special TV broadcasts, use Japan’s touch card payment system, and receive government issued national emergency warnings for earthquakes and other natural disasters.

The J Butterfly appears to be the same device that has been cropping up during the past few weeks from numerous HTC specification and image leaks. At the time, it was largely speculated that it would be released as the “HTC One X 5″, or that it would be released as a Nexus phone known as the “Nexus 5″.

HTC has confirmed that the J Butterfly will not see release outside of Japan, but that its screen will do. It is unclear if the J Butterfly will be launched globally under a different name or if there is a similar phone featuring the same display and HD screen resolution. If the former is the case, then perhaps there is some truth in the rumours that this will be one of the next Nexus phones.

It is now widely believed that LG will be releasing a Nexus phone in the coming months, known as the Nexus 4, and images recently surfaced of a highly dubious Sony phone dubbed the “Sony Nexus X”. Due to the images appearing on Picasa and having some tell-tale signs of photoshopping, it is unlikely that they are genuine, although there is a high probability that a Sony Nexus phone is in development as claimed.

Simon writes for UK phone website http://www.best-mobile-contracts.co.uk/

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The phone and the station that transform into a tablet has a total weigh of only 649g which was much lighter and slimmer as the redesigned docking system doesn’t need a cover to secure the phone inside the dock. For now, you just need to slide the phone into the top of the tablet and there will be a small vibration to indicate it has been inserted property which has been improved from the first generation of PadFone that has a in-tray docking mechanism instead. Easy slide in and out mechanism. 

Comparing the docking system between PadFone and PadFone 2 (Credit: CNET Asia)

As for the camera of PadFone 2, it comes with a 13 megapixel rear camera and 1.2 megapixel of front camera for video calls. The rear camera is capable of shooting 1080p videos at 30fps, 720p videos at 60fps and 6fps for 100 continuous shots at full 13MP resolution. Asus claims PadFone 2 has 3G talk time of 16 hours, browsing of 13 hours, video of nine hours and 3G standby of two weeks.

PadFone 2

The tablet features the same 10.1, 1280 x 800 IPS screen with smaller sized battery that has higher capacity of 6,600mAh as compared to the old version of 5,000mAh. The battery for the phone has increased its capacity from 1,520mAh in the old version to a 2,140mAh in the PadFone 2.

ASUS PadFone 2 will be on sale in Taiwan next week and will be launched in Asia before December in following  countries : Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand and also Europe. Other regions will be getting the device later on. The PadFone 2 smartphone is priced at 17,990 Taiwan dollars (US$616) for 16GB version, 19,990 Taiwan dollars (US$684) for 32GB and 21,901 Taiwan dollars (US$750) for 64GB. The PadFone Station/tablet will retail for 8,990 Taiwan dollars (US$307).

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Sony Nexus Front View Leak Photo

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