Tech a byte

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) was the 5th victim of the continuous government website vandalism after its home page defaced by a hacker, leaving a message of sympathy to a certain "Kimay" addressed to abusive police officers and a picture of a man showing a nasty dirty finger.



This defacement follows the attack on other agencies like Department of Health (DOH), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

Philippines dot ph (.ph) domain was recently listed this year by the virus company McAfee as one of the Top Ten Most Risky Domains using its SiteAdvisor and TrustedSource technologies. As summarized on below reports, dot ph (.ph) ranked 6th (overall worldwide risk) and ranked 4th (by country) with 2,272 risky domains.

http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/local/docs/Mapping_Mal_Web.pdf
http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/local/docs/Mapping_Mal_Web_Summary.pdf

Computerworld.com.ph website has been tagged as 'harmful' in Google SERP.


Update:
(11/5/2009): Computerworld.com.ph is unlisted in Google SERP as a 'suspicious' site.

Twitter introduces a new feature to block spammers. This can be done by clicking the 'Report [profile name] for Spam' button under Actions section of a profile's sidebar. With this, suspicious profile will be blocked on following or replying you.

This feature has not been applied automatically so that it will not be abused by twitterers who will intentionally report profiles as spam for those they don't like. Besides, reported spam profiles will be scrutinized manually by Twitter's Trust and Safety team for authentication.