In the era of information technology, the use of the Internet has provided a great influence on various aspects of life. This technology allows people to work or run a business from home, get information, download music, movies, and even communicating and exploring favorite sites can be done easily. In fact, those who are able to adapt in utilizing the proliferation of the Internet will be more ready to enter the era of global economic competition where the Internet is one of the backbone of the users.

As the most complete library in the world, the Internet is the transforming media of science for students and educators. They no longer need to wak the extra mile to a public library. Simply by using the computer equipment and internet access, they can find the information needed.

In general, the problems in accessing the internet involve the connection speed where Dial-up internet often causes headaches, especially for rural communities. However, relying on dial up has become something obsolete. This is the time where the internet users switch to high speed wild blue satellite internet. more…

Almost same with a dial up connection system (new IP address assigned at each connection), a broadband connection (DSL connection) system makes our network IP address to be assigned dynamically. Therefore, it will be a big problem when we want to make a private web server in our house or a small email server in our office. Even though we can get a static IP, but it needs extra money for upgrading the DSL to a small business account.

Another possibility is to create ddns (dynamic domain name system) that enables a fixed domain names to be assigned to dynamic IP address. Besides that, a ddns can also be used to map a long URL to a new shorter domain name / sub-domain name, which called as URL forwarding service. more…

The longest alphabetical email address is now offered to you for free! Look at the features of your mailbox. It’s so interesting that:

Some Web forms do not work with your email
Due to the length of the email address, some web forms are not setup to handle such a long email address, and as such, they may deem your email address as invalid or even fraudulent! This is the only email address that would allow you to fail an online web form!

Some Email Software Cannot be configured
Again some email software may throw you an error message stating that the email address you enter is invalid simply because the email address is too long.

People Cannot Remember your email address
It will be extremely hard for your friends or your coworkers to actually remember your email address because it is just too long. more…

A worm spread evil code to Facebook users. Representative Facebook, Barry Schnitt said that the worm is not new, these worms have been present in August, and this worm variants is only to target Facebook users.

Meanwhile, Craig Schmugar, virus researchers and the threat of worms from McAfee Avert Labs, Koobfaces confirm that the worm is usually only attack to the social networking site. However, the Facebook site is another incident, he added. When users receive messages in Facebook inbox, there is a message titled, “You look funny in this new video” or other same things, and the recipient of the message you are encouraged to click on the link provided. If the link is clicked, it will go to a video site, which has a message that says that the update is required before Flash can play video files, and call execution of flash_player.exe. more…

According to MessageLabs, virus writers are likely to increase the tension of the malware in the next year in order to accelerate business botnet from the year 2008. MessageLabs predicted that hackers will release a new malware attack, such as virtualization layer that runs directly on the hardware and will not be found by the operating system.

“System operation will not know where the malware is located. The main problem is how to delete them, because malware is in the low-level, and can damage the system. Cyber Criminal will concentrate on computer infection with malware that hides in the task that is done by user. For example, when the malware knows that deliver spam that has been blocked the author of the malware will send DoS Denial-of-Service) in it. more…

Based on observations from the independent research company comScore, about 81 percent of online video has been enjoyed by the entire world by using Adobe Flash technology, and create a Flash format for number one video player on the web. Adobe Flash Player software has been installed in 98 percent of the desktop connected to the Internet and growth in every mobile device. Adobe has released two key components of the Adobe Flash platform.

Two platforms provided the software is Adobe Interactive Media Server 3.5 and Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3.5. Adobe Flash Platform provides interactive content, applications and video on the web. New server also have the option of sending the new media, such as dynamic streaming, H.264 video, and audio support High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC), also the ability to pause and view the live streaming. more…

Firewall is an application installed on a computer or computer network and work to prevent them from piercing access interference from entitled outside parties. The firewall also works to protect the data that exists in a computer or computer network, protect from data theft or spying. All access activities that enter or exit in a network must be through this firewall. Firewalls also be used for detecting and monitoring all in out network data. Firewall tasks are monitoring and maintaining network elements such as source (the source of the data packet originated), destination, the protocol that is used and the content of the package the data itself.

So, the firewall can be used by Internet users to protect the network from interference outside parties with a way to block the transmission of data from a particular address, prevent the exchange of data between certain units of the computer, reject the package with certain contents of data, and prevent the using of certain protocols in data exchange. While some techniques on the firewall such as: more…

Joomla application is often used as a content management system at various sites, which are known to have enough critical vaunerability. Government sites especially, need to be cautious of this vulnerability.

The bug that allows irresponsible parties access the site administrator based Joomla. Not only access, the administrator password that is used can be changed.
And so, information on how to exploit this weakness has been spread on the internet. Thus, many irresponsible parties can easily use exploit it with the provision information search engine such as Google or yahoo. Some references said the weakness lies in the Joomla version 1.5. Specifically, the files used to reset (reset) password. more…

Wikia Search engine was created of Wikia Inc. Commercial profit company Wikia Inc. is a company that works separately with Wikipedia Inc., the company that created non-profit Wikipedia, but established by the same person, Jimmy Wales. Wikia Search has been providing facilities to anyone who wants to use as add, delete, and rating the Web page. During the period in the beginning of the launch of the alpha version of January ago, Wikia Search has been enthralling visitors as much as 20,000 users have signed up, which has created around 25,000 mini articles.

However, whether the user is registered or not, does not have right to modify content of Wikia Search Index, which can be used to measure rating the quality of web. For users, only have right to edit the content of a URL (Uniform Resource Locator URL), both modifications to the headline or details. Users can also take a portion of the index, such as Web page or add text directly back to index Search Wikia, a wiki search feature called Annotation. more…

When surfing to websites that are secure, different domain has different security. McAfee Inc. antivirus, anti-virus software vendor, says that companies have the address listed on the website seems to have undergone security crisis when a company as owner of an address registered in a particular domain. McAfee found that there are some domains that are considered dangerous to navigation users, such as, “.hk” (Hong Kong), “.cn” (China), and “.info” (information). more…