Becareful with your Data!!!
Posted on May, 9 at 5:37 pm
Today’s tech advice is brought to you by JSuresh.net free of charge. No matter what you do, do not I repeat do not bring home confidential files and in your USB and plug in to your laptop that is configured to share files using a P2P program. If you do, please oh please, make sure that you do not put those files into a folder that has been configured to share! An employee (a rookie) of Hong Kong’s Immigration’s authority did just that and now confidential files have been leaked. Hmm, it is not only a public relations nightmare but also a violation of trust. If government bodies can’t keep their data safely, than how can we as normal citizens trust them to secure our personal data (i.e. Identity Card number, Social insurance number, etc..etc..). Well, hopefully new measures are placed to prevent such an incident from happening.
Classified Hong Kong “watch-list” leaked on internet
HONGKONG (May 9, 2008): A government investigation was underway Friday after it was revealed that confidential files from the Immigration Department had been mistakenly leaked on to the internet.The list, which contained a list of the names of people for officers to watch, plus travel document information and travel records, has been available on the internet since Monday through a file-sharing programme called “Foxy.”
The blunder occurred after a newly-recruited immigration officer working at the Lok Ma Chau border point took home some old classified files to study without authorisation.
His computer contained the “Foxy” programme and when he connected to the internet, the files were distributed without his knowledge.
The security blunder is the latest in a series in Hong Kong in the last week.
Earlier this week, banking giant HSBC was forced to apologise to customers after it admitted it had lost the data of 159,000 accounts from a Hong Kong branch.
The data was held on a internet server which is understood to have gong missing in April from the Kwun Tong branch of the bank while it was undergoing renovation last month.
The Hospital Authority also admitted this week to the loss of data of thousands of patients in several incidents.
In one case, a USB flashdrive containing the files of 10,000 patients from the Prince of Wales Hospital was lost after a hospital worker who was transferring the data left it in a taxi.
Lawmaker James To, the vice-chairman of the Legislative Council security panel said the immigration department security breach was by far the most serious of all three.
“This data is more private, it gives the detailed record of people’s travelling history,” he said.
Chairman of the security panel Lau Kong-wah said the leak was unforgivable.
“The data is sensitive information. Not only the Immigration Department, but all government organisations should review their data-privacy systems to prevent similar cases,” he said.
Security Secretary Abromse Lee has said the officer concerned would face disciplinary action after an investigation. — dpa
Technorati Tags: security, hk, immigration, data
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Raja Petra
Posted on May, 8 at 11:38 am
P.S: Sorry folks, This is not an IT post. Forgive the interruption, but head over to engadget to see leaked images of the new Dell laptop
src: A Commentator at Malaysia-today posted the image. If I know the creator, I’ll put the link to his site.
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Items (Cool Stuff) I really need
Posted on May, 3 at 10:41 pm
I want to and perhaps will in the near future get this alarm clock with Bed Shaker.
$39.99
Since I have the tendency to sometime oversleep (after working late the night before), this will definitely prevent that from happening. It has the following features.
113 decibels
3 Alarm Settings (Buzz, Buzz/Bed Shake, Only Bed Shake)
- Red Display
- Two Brightness Settings
- Snooze Button
Hmm…I must really re consider, get up on time with a danger of loss of hearing if I placed the bell near my bed…allright, I’ll put it a few metres away from my bed, danger to my hearing will be lessened, and the bed shaker will still get me up. I need to get a job to pay for this. Hope I’ll get a job offer soon.
Second Cool Thing I also really, really,really want
$29.99
A cube that glows in the dark! It just looks cool at night!.
That’s all for now. What do you guys like?, paste the link to the product(s) you like by submitting a comment below.
Have a good weekend everyone.
P.S: One more result remaining!!! Wooott
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Ubuntu Hardy Heron
Posted on April, 30 at 11:34 pm
Current Mood:
Cool
I have finally installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron on my old laptop. Nope, I did not use WUBI, I installed the WHOLE Ubuntu on my old laptop that was running Windows XP 2.
I’m gently moving into unknown territory here, been a Windows guy all my young life, now am finally branching to the exciting world of Linux.
Installation was a breeze. No problem whatsoever. Now, just need to play with it!
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Want to know the difference between Web 2.0 XML and Plaintext?
Posted on April, 29 at 11:31 pm
An excellent video for tutorial purposes.
Web 2.0 … The Machine Is Us/ing Us - The most amazing bloopers are here
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A Digression
Posted on April, 27 at 5:11 pm
Current Mood:
Happy
I know I mentioned that this blog is exclusively for IT related news, but I can not help but post this link. I got it from from stumble upon. Enjoy ladies and gentlemen. The message in this video is potent. Let’s heed it.
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I’m Back
Posted on April, 27 at 4:22 pm
Current Mood:
Esctatic
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It’s been a while since I wrote anything. I just want you all to know that I’m back. Finished all my exams. Will be graduating on the 29th of May 2008! Actively looking for a job right now. Hope to get something before I leave.
And the redirection from my main page (i.e. http://jsuresh.net) is working right now. I will also be links to projects that I have done on my main page. Thank you visitors (I can’t believe that so many of you actually visited my page)
Regards,
Suresh! aka Great Baron.
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A Reminiscence
Posted on February, 9 at 9:10 pm
I used google to search up an old science fiction story I posted at SFFWorld. I wrote that story when I was in the last year of my secondary school in 2000. (i.e when I was 17 years of age). You can view it here:
There seems to be 5 errors that I’m receiving on this page. It appears that plugins that used to work are now not working. I’ll remove them when time permits.
I think I’m ready to unveil my web application that I developed for my technical report. It uses GoogleMaps, AJAX, Javascript (I know that Google Maps uses Ajax but I’m talking about using Ajax and Javascript in other portions of the site). I hope to improve it even more before the final deadline (look and feel). I’m learning a lot of web based technologies from this TR. I just hope that my profs will like what I did in the Geomatics part (i.e. visualizing the location of soundings and displaying of processed data online). I still have a bit more to do, i.e. allowing users to download the raw datasets. I’m also thinking of allowing online modification of the database. But all that will be done in due course. I believe I’ve finished what my supervisor from the Ocean Mapping Group wanted me to do. So now, all I have to do is just improve the look and feel.
Just use the sample data sets that has been inputted in the text boxes. And click query (just below the large Map of Eastern Canada). You will be confronted with 2 baloons displaying the location of soundings. I’ll upload more data sets if I have the time.
Why I did this application? Currently the ocean mapping group has tons of data lying about. This application serves to demonstrate the usage of a database as a central repository of those datasets. This application also enables online viewing of these datasets and semi-’offline’ viewing (using Google Earth). The web application had to have the ability to query different facets of data (date/depth/cordinates). All this have been implemented and are working well.
I used MySQL as the database backend. As for scripting, I used PHP and Javascript.
I also used GoogleMaps.
Other relevant technologies:
CSS (I hope to extend my CSS knowledge by making the layout even better than what it is now. To be honest, yes you don’t have to tell me, the layout is too simple. But perhaps this has its own advantages).
Ajax - I managed to display the images in the same page by making calls to a php file on the server! Wahoo!
There’s a lot for me to learn, but I’m glad I have started the process of self discovery. Before, I was totally clueless on web based scripting and server (& client) side scripting. I was a computer science student (and also a Geomatics Engineering student) who had only theoretical knowledge of programming and no industrial experience. This project has given me the ability to harmonize not only what I’ve learned in Geomatics Engineering but also in computer Science. And it has also allowed me to develop an application that will solve an existing real life problem.
So, I’m accepting suggestions and constructive criticisms. Please send them to me at
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Another Look at the stats & Update About myself
Posted on January, 26 at 11:11 pm
Current Mood:
Flirtatious
Okay, I had another look at my stats. This time not with the wordpress plugin but the one that was provided by my host. It looks like I have indeed been getting a fair amount of visitors. This is indeed surprising to me. most of them appear to be commercial agents (I suppose bots are also labeled as ‘commercial’ agents).
I’ve not been updating this blog for quite a while. I have a lot of reasons and all of them are good!
First, I’m currently in my final semester so there’s a lot of thing that I have to do. I’m currently working on my Technical Report. It consists of 2 parts; 1st suggest a replacement data format for the Moving Vessel Profiler Data. 2nd; Create a web application that will enable Oceanographic datasets for an organization in my university to be accessible from the web. I’ve used PHP, Javascript, GoogleMap and Google Earth for this project. I learnt a lot about new technologies from the project. I hope it would enable companies to see me in a new light. I’ll post the link to the project site once it’s done. the prototype is fully functional but I would like to see how I can improve it further. I did not use ‘pure’ computer science techniques of development when I was doing this project. I suppose I should have done it at the beginning but I was in a hurry to understand all of the related technologies since I started with near zero knowledge of Web based scripting languages like PHP, Javascript and newer technologies such as GoogleMap and Google Earth.
This project has certainly taught me a lot! I’m glad that I was given the opportunity to do this. In the mean time, Please comment. I know….I want to be needed…lol….ok..jokes aside. It’s end of January so all the best for the remainder of the year!
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Settled
Posted on January, 26 at 10:58 pm
Looks like the problem that I was having earlier has dissipated. An upgrade to the next version of wordpress fixed it. I’m however still noticing the following error. Anyone know what this means? “Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0″
Everything used to work well before. And I’m getting huge amount of visitors. Is my statistics package wrong? I find it difficult to believe that my page can be gathering so many views. It is inconceivable to have that many visitors and not commenting! So I suppose the visitors being reported are phantom visitors. I’ll worry about that later though. If there are indeed visitors out there, could you please comment on my blog?
Thank you very much!
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