Saturday, November 7, 2009
Why MCA - by Comedy Court
The 12th Malaysian General Elections brought about some shocking defeats but none as devastating as the results obtained by Barisan National's main Chinese component party, political and business partner.... M.C.A. The loss of many seats including their President's Dato Seri Ong Ka Ting has caused the party to stir up new ways to bring back into its fold, the departure of so many Chinese voters, who in the past years could easily be convinced by a simple song and dance such as this ...
Chinaman become Ali Baba Man
With UMNO man who get bumiputra plan
The work the Indian man
He sub to illegal immigrant
And everybody's happy
So the Chinaman, from the opposition
Take over government, and cause the frustration
And now the UMNO man, with the contract in hand
He turn around to Ali Baba
And said what lah! man
How can this happen, tell me
Why MCA?
How can you lose your seat now
Why MCA?
You know election has come,
You should have paid more up front
Now we all bang balls!
Opposition has won
So CHai So Now So How?
So Why MCA?
So CHai So Now So How?
So why MCA?
Last time it's Mou Tak Teng
with Ong Ka Ting
Now all got open tender
how to Kao Tim?
So CHai So Now So How?
So BYE MCA
So CHai So Now So How?
YOu LIE MAC
You say that transparency
Will lead to bankruptcy
Chinese got straight hair
How much straighter can we be?
We are the ones who started HALA money
We are the trusted nominated proxies
Say you, we change policies
Tell people don't see the KERIS
Let Ali Baba do his business and his deals
So CHai So Now So How?
That's how you LIE MCA
So CHai So Now So How?
if not you DIE MCA
So CHai So Now So How?
So that is WHY MCA
So CHai So Now So How?
You have to CRY MCA
So CHai So Now So How?
That's how you LIE MCA
So CHai So Now So How?
If not you DIE MCA
So CHai So Now So How?
So that is WHY MCA
So CHai So Now So How?
You have to TRY MCA
Hey turn down the music
Don't know what the So Chai singing
Aiiyah! Traffuc jam agian
They give new road so that we can cut time
Suddenly they put the toll there
now all jam behind the toll!
Aiyah!
Hey Ong! You heard this one or not?
Who do you kill when you see a Chinaman and a snake?
Ar!...
You kill the Indian fella singing this song lah!
Ha ha ha ha
Ho ho ho ho
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Response to Hussein Abdul Hamid "politicians all same"
Hussein Abdul Hamid's blog SteadyAku47 contains lots of wisdom and deserve more than a mention here. His latest post cakap cakap...bloggers steady lah!!! tells of why we should continue to support Anwar Ibrahim and Pakatan Rakyat which you should not only read, but also helps to pass the message around. However, I feel his statement
can do with some elaboration, as it is very common to hear this response when one talks about Malaysian politics. I myself have heard this a few times and I will like to tell of how I responded to such remarks.
Insurance sales manager and schoolmate: Ah, all the politicians are the same lah. When they get into power, they will also become corrupt.
Me: Tell me, do all insurance people use unethical methods to sell insurance? Does everyone have the same motivation (money, power) for doing something?
She had to agree with me that not everyone is the same. I then asked, so is it not possible that not all the politicians are the same, in the game only for money and power? This again she had to agree with me.
This technique of responding to statements or questions with more questions can be quite effective. Let me tell of another situation who complained that (Pakatan Rakyat politicians) don't bother to serve the people after they get elected. He was referring to things like dirty drains and meeting the voters, and wonder of wonder, visit him.
I asked: If I elect you ADUN, would you visit me in my house?
The obvious response - no.
maybe it is better that we stick to the devil that we know then the devil that we don’t. After all these Politicians are all-alike!
can do with some elaboration, as it is very common to hear this response when one talks about Malaysian politics. I myself have heard this a few times and I will like to tell of how I responded to such remarks.
Insurance sales manager and schoolmate: Ah, all the politicians are the same lah. When they get into power, they will also become corrupt.
Me: Tell me, do all insurance people use unethical methods to sell insurance? Does everyone have the same motivation (money, power) for doing something?
She had to agree with me that not everyone is the same. I then asked, so is it not possible that not all the politicians are the same, in the game only for money and power? This again she had to agree with me.
This technique of responding to statements or questions with more questions can be quite effective. Let me tell of another situation who complained that (Pakatan Rakyat politicians) don't bother to serve the people after they get elected. He was referring to things like dirty drains and meeting the voters, and wonder of wonder, visit him.
I asked: If I elect you ADUN, would you visit me in my house?
The obvious response - no.
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Hussein Hamid
Monday, October 5, 2009
Crime alert - Kuala Lumpur hotspots
Dear Kawan2,
This info was send to me by an ex- journalist of The Sun Newspaper who cover Crime news in KL.
Do inform your loves one. Especially from kampong.
Please take note of this few HOT SPOT CRIME AREAS IN KL
1 Lebuh Ampang Bus Stop Near The Indian Restaurants - Snatch Thief Area, victims are normally Malay and Indian girls who are alone and not aware.Sexy Indian Girls, please be extra careful if you are to say a word, they will insult you with vulgar words or even slap your face if you put up a fight.
2 Jalan Ampang - Menara Great Eastern / Great Eastern Mall - If you are approaced by anyone - men or women asking for direction or time, please be ALERT if any cars or motobike that comes near you. Stop your conversation and run for your for your life, if not be ready to scream or if you have a spray get it ready. Tag Team Ahli Gusti Jahat Gang will either snatch your handbag / handphone or sepak you if they can't get anything from you. If you are too sexy - they will bundle you into their car or molest you on the spot.
Hehehe... Kuam lelaki jangan tergoda / noda dengan kecantikan / seksi gadis tersebut - padah teruk akan menanti anda, nak muka anda pecah cubalah!!,
melainkan anda pun ada gang to fight back [ They work in a team of 4 to 6 person]. THE GIRL IS THEIR DECOY [UMPAN] to rob their unsuspecting victims.
3 Changkat Thambi Dollah Off Jalan Pudu - Bus Stop and Wisma Shaw Areas. Lots of Mat Rempits who hang around the bus stop area to snatch your handbag. Those who drive to this area and to Wisma Shaw for shopping or Cari Makan, Please park your car at a safe parking area. Tepi Jalan parking areas can be not safe - Taiko Tai might force you to remove your car or they will park to block your car. Any words you say to them might end-up you getting a good bash -up. [They have areas whereby only gang leaders can park their cars]
4 Jalan Pudu From Swiss Garden Hotel to Hentian Pudu Raya and Menara Maybank
4.1 Ladies please takecare of your handbag and your handphone when you place it near your ears - Mat Rempit Gang will Zoooom near you and roughly snatch it from you. You might just fall down due to the impact of it and hurt your head by hitting the ground.
4.2 When withdrawing cash from the banks ATM [Ambank or Maybank] Please look around first b4 you do your withdrawal, IF YOU NOTICE someone looking at you or suspicious to you, then you have to be extra careful k !. There is this GERAK KILAT gang who in a split second would be near you and snatch or point a knife at you to handover the money, some even force their victims to withdraw from their victims other ATM banks.[Acording to my not so reliable source - they were one or two female victims who were raped and dumped at Setapak and Kepong area]
4.3 Boarding of Taxi or Unkown Person Car - Please take note of the route the drivers is taking you, was told if you are taken to a wrong road then you would end-up as a Rape victim or if you are a guy, hehehe... you would be cash strip / burnt in a car.[My best friend lately was a victim, lost his Rolex Watch, Wedding ring and ATM's Card ].
4.4 Ok, Ladies if you think that its safe to be on a motorbike with your Macho Guy that fine, but be ware of motorbikes beside you, they might be snatchers who will snatch your bag and Zoom away
5 Wangsa Maju Putra LRT and TAR College Area A New Gangster Area this area have now become worst than Jinjang, Balakong or Puchong .Groups of youths will do anything to harm you for just a matter of cents or dislike personality. Dont stare or look at them, all you will know is that they will just simply stab you with a penknife or a dagger.
6 Kepong, Selayang, Sentul Timur LRT and Wangsa Maju - Unknown Part Time Taxi Drivers or Stolen Taxi Waiting for You To Be Their Victims - Ladies if you are alone, please DO NOT board a taxi if you think the driver is not pleasant. If you have withdrawn money from the bank or that you are sexy please ENSURE that the driver doesn't use the central locking of his taxi and driving you to a right route.[You have the full rights to ask the taxi driver not to use the central locking - Wind down the windows if he does not obey you].
Macho Guy you too can be a victim of cash and valuables.
This info was send to me by an ex- journalist of The Sun Newspaper who cover Crime news in KL.
Do inform your loves one. Especially from kampong.
Please take note of this few HOT SPOT CRIME AREAS IN KL
1 Lebuh Ampang Bus Stop Near The Indian Restaurants - Snatch Thief Area, victims are normally Malay and Indian girls who are alone and not aware.Sexy Indian Girls, please be extra careful if you are to say a word, they will insult you with vulgar words or even slap your face if you put up a fight.
2 Jalan Ampang - Menara Great Eastern / Great Eastern Mall - If you are approaced by anyone - men or women asking for direction or time, please be ALERT if any cars or motobike that comes near you. Stop your conversation and run for your for your life, if not be ready to scream or if you have a spray get it ready. Tag Team Ahli Gusti Jahat Gang will either snatch your handbag / handphone or sepak you if they can't get anything from you. If you are too sexy - they will bundle you into their car or molest you on the spot.
Hehehe... Kuam lelaki jangan tergoda / noda dengan kecantikan / seksi gadis tersebut - padah teruk akan menanti anda, nak muka anda pecah cubalah!!,
melainkan anda pun ada gang to fight back [ They work in a team of 4 to 6 person]. THE GIRL IS THEIR DECOY [UMPAN] to rob their unsuspecting victims.
3 Changkat Thambi Dollah Off Jalan Pudu - Bus Stop and Wisma Shaw Areas. Lots of Mat Rempits who hang around the bus stop area to snatch your handbag. Those who drive to this area and to Wisma Shaw for shopping or Cari Makan, Please park your car at a safe parking area. Tepi Jalan parking areas can be not safe - Taiko Tai might force you to remove your car or they will park to block your car. Any words you say to them might end-up you getting a good bash -up. [They have areas whereby only gang leaders can park their cars]
4 Jalan Pudu From Swiss Garden Hotel to Hentian Pudu Raya and Menara Maybank
4.1 Ladies please takecare of your handbag and your handphone when you place it near your ears - Mat Rempit Gang will Zoooom near you and roughly snatch it from you. You might just fall down due to the impact of it and hurt your head by hitting the ground.
4.2 When withdrawing cash from the banks ATM [Ambank or Maybank] Please look around first b4 you do your withdrawal, IF YOU NOTICE someone looking at you or suspicious to you, then you have to be extra careful k !. There is this GERAK KILAT gang who in a split second would be near you and snatch or point a knife at you to handover the money, some even force their victims to withdraw from their victims other ATM banks.[Acording to my not so reliable source - they were one or two female victims who were raped and dumped at Setapak and Kepong area]
4.3 Boarding of Taxi or Unkown Person Car - Please take note of the route the drivers is taking you, was told if you are taken to a wrong road then you would end-up as a Rape victim or if you are a guy, hehehe... you would be cash strip / burnt in a car.[My best friend lately was a victim, lost his Rolex Watch, Wedding ring and ATM's Card ].
4.4 Ok, Ladies if you think that its safe to be on a motorbike with your Macho Guy that fine, but be ware of motorbikes beside you, they might be snatchers who will snatch your bag and Zoom away
5 Wangsa Maju Putra LRT and TAR College Area A New Gangster Area this area have now become worst than Jinjang, Balakong or Puchong .Groups of youths will do anything to harm you for just a matter of cents or dislike personality. Dont stare or look at them, all you will know is that they will just simply stab you with a penknife or a dagger.
6 Kepong, Selayang, Sentul Timur LRT and Wangsa Maju - Unknown Part Time Taxi Drivers or Stolen Taxi Waiting for You To Be Their Victims - Ladies if you are alone, please DO NOT board a taxi if you think the driver is not pleasant. If you have withdrawn money from the bank or that you are sexy please ENSURE that the driver doesn't use the central locking of his taxi and driving you to a right route.[You have the full rights to ask the taxi driver not to use the central locking - Wind down the windows if he does not obey you].
Macho Guy you too can be a victim of cash and valuables.
Labels:
crime,
scam alert
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Bagan Pinang By-Election Moooo rugiah

Photo of Moooo rugiah courtesy of Zorro Unmasked
Mr Moooorugiah said no talk of that what... moo head incident. So we are not allowed to talk about the mooo... head incident, but we can moooo... all we want until we are satisfied.
AND HERE IS THE REAL COW. IS THERE ANY MOOOO... FROM THIS COW?

Photo of Murugiah the cow courtesy of Malaysiakini
Does this one look like a cow too, I wonder. I think all those in Barisan Neraka are cows (and no bull):

Photo of another cow courtesy of Malaysiakini
Labels:
election
Why is Malaysia so unsafe nowadays? Must be that Barisan Neraka's fault
Just repeating what was sent to my mailbox:
WGM3391(Toyota Avanza) in champagne coloured van,two Indian males in their 30's .. they just robbed a maid in ss3 on MY street some 10 mins ago. Tore her ears ...off to take her g...old earrings. -- Just got news they attemped mugging another person just up the road from here an hour ago. Pls copy paste into ur status n help nab these buggers
WGM3391(Toyota Avanza) in champagne coloured van,two Indian males in their 30's .. they just robbed a maid in ss3 on MY street some 10 mins ago. Tore her ears ...off to take her g...old earrings. -- Just got news they attemped mugging another person just up the road from here an hour ago. Pls copy paste into ur status n help nab these buggers
Labels:
announcement,
scam alert
Monday, September 28, 2009
How much Barisan Nasional taken from Malaysia
Who still want to vote UMNO/BN needs to have their heads examined
This is taken from SteadyAK47: I know U know UMNO don't know plus fill-ins from comments as a permanent record of the pillage by this BN (Barisan Neraka) of our nation Malaysia:
Bank Bumiputra 3.2 Billion
Maminco attempt to corner the world
tin market in 1980's
1.6 Billion
Betting in Foreign Exchange cost
Bank Negara in 1990's
30 Billion
Perwaja Steel resulted in losses
2.56 Billion
Valuecap Sdn Bhd - operation to
shore up stock market with public
funds
10 Billion
Bank Islam banking scandal - losses
700 Million
Sale of M.V. Agusta by Proton
for One Euro making a loss of :
348 Million
Wang Ehsan from Trengganu Oil
Royalty - 2004 -2007
7.4 Billion
Philharmonic Orchestra - since it
estabalished has swallowed:
500 Million
Advisors Fees per year
Mahathir
180,000.00
Sahrizat
406,726.00
Abdul Hamid Othman (religious)
549,675.00
Teaching Maths and Science in English over the past five
years
3.2 Billion
Of this money 2.21 Billion spent
on purchase of Information and
computer Technology - no breakdown.
Commission paid: Perimekar
and IMT Defence Sdn. Bhd.
910,000.00
Compensation Gerbang Perdana
for "Crooked Scenic Half-Bridge
1.1 Billion
CIQ Building - wasted building-
cancellation of the above bridge
1.3 Billion
Renovation of Parliament building
and leaks
100 Million
National Astronaut Programme
40 Million
National Service Training. Yearly estimate is approximately
500 Million
Eye on Malaysia
30 Million
Free tickets - Eye on Malaysia
5.7 million.
Soft Loan to PKFZ
4.63 Billion
Indelible Ink - Election Commission
2.4 Million.
Compensation to 20 highway co.
announced by Samy Velu in Sept 2006
38.5 Billion
Windfall for 9 toll concessionaries
soley from toll hikes in 2008 alone:
380 Million
Timber export kickbacks involving
companies belonging to Sarawak
Chief Minister & Family
32 Million
Bailout of Malaysian Airlines System
7.9 Billion
MAS buying painting for
Office (Munir)
1.55Million
Putra Transport system bailout
4.486Billion
Star LRT bailout
192.54 Million
National Sewerage System bailout
192.54 Million
Seremban-Port Dickson Highway bailout
142 Million
Kuching Prison bailout
135 Million
Kajian Makanan &Gunaan Orang
Islam
8.3 Million
Le Tour Langkawi bailout
3.5 Million
Others:
AP’s scandal have been going on year after year for more then thirty years involving a total mind boggling sum of tens of billions of Ringgits.
Alienation of tens of thousands of hectares of commercial land and forestry concessions to children and relatives of Barisan National leaders and Ministers worth tens of billions of Ringgits.
Travel around Malaysia and see for yourself how many white elephants like majestic arches, roads paved with fanciful bricks, designer lamp posts, clock towers, Municipal buildings that look like Istanas, extravagant places of worships, refurbishment of residences of VIP’s, abandoned or under-utilized government sports complexes and buildings etc etc. The combined costs of all these will easily amount to the hundreds of billions of Ringgits.
Since 1997, Petronas has handed out a staggering 30 Billion Ringgit in natural gas subsides to IPPs who are already making massive profits. In addition there were much wastages and forward trading of Petronas oil in the 1990’s based on the low price of oil then. The accounts of Petronas are for the eyes of the Prime Minster only we have absolutely no idea of the amount!
From comments:
Still some more:
Monsoon Cup RM800 million
Collapse stadium & swimming complex in Trengganu.
Sime UMBC Bank RM800 million total loss by UMNO cronies
KTM bleeding RM100 million annualy
Malaysia Airports RM1 billion subsidy by BN govt
Sepang F1 circuit loss annualy
Corruption loss annualy RM10 billion
Scorpione submarine commission to Perimaker is RM500 million la.
What bout the collapsed stadium in Trengganu?
Labels:
Barisan Nasional,
scandals,
UMNO
THE ATTACKS ON MALAYSIA TODAY
Access blocked websites through proxy servers
This is a copy-paste of an article in Malaysia Today which is facing attacks and sometimes impossible to access. I hope there will be duplicate sites all over the web so that when Malaysia Today is down, there will be other duplicate sites where Malaysia Today's articles can be read:
THE ATTACKS ON MALAYSIA TODAY
Posted by admin
Monday, 28 September 2009 16:21
The MCMC has in the past failed to silence Malaysia Today officially through blocking it in August 2008. Now, with even more revelations of various scandals of the government exposed through this site, we can't help but suspect that there is a more significant force, a hidden hand at play aimed at bringing down Malaysia Today.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
First of all, I have received tons of happy birthday messages via SMS, Facebook, e-mails and postings on this site. Initially, I tried to reply to all these messages one by one but as the messages flooded in I found it impossible to reply to each and every message individually. Therefore, I would like to say thank you and at the same time apologise to all those I was not able to personally reply to.
Now, you may have noticed that of late Malaysia Today has been ‘off the air’ almost every day, sometimes for a stretch of many hours. This has been going on for more than a week. The man leading our technical team thought that maybe we should inform our readers what is happening so that you can be kept abreast of the developments. Rest assured we are doing everything we can to solve this problem.
Nevertheless, there is just so much we can do. Money, of course, is one issue that we have to address, as what would be required does cost us quite a sum. Money aside, though, if they choose to continue the attacks, even money can’t solve the problem. We just have to pick ourselves up and start all over again whenever we are hit and bear the disruptions to the site with a stiff upper lip.
Anyway, let our technical team explain what is the problem we have been facing.
What happened to Malaysia Today
By Malaysia Today’s technical team
With so much confusion and speculation making its rounds about what is happening to Malaysia Today over more than a week, we are compelled to offer our explanation so that the record can be set straight. Only limited technical details will be mentioned to allow you to appreciate the scale of challenge the site is facing.
You may now be aware that the site has been up and down since Friday, 17 September 2009. This was due to malicious activities by those behind the effort to cripple Malaysia Today. This is just one of the many rounds of cyber-attacks that we at Malaysia Today have had to face for more than a year now.
Coincidentally, this latest round of attacks started immediately after RPK’s explosive expose two weeks ago on Tuesday regarding the Malaysian Cabinet's knowledge and 'approval' of the PKFZ scandal long before it became public knowledge. Suspicious activities against the site happened as early as Wednesday, but the first damage was done in the afternoon of Thursday, which brought the site down.
The site was quickly recovered and by 6.00pm we were up and running again although with some loss of data. The attack revolved around the long-time problem faced by the site - a rather old version of Joomla content management system and the use of third-party components.
Lack of resources (financial, manpower, etc.) has always been a challenge faced by Malaysia Today, which affected the maintenance and operations of the site. During the recovery process, we locked down the site to reduce the danger of further compromises.
The next wave of attacks came the following day on Friday. This time it was in a wave of DDoS traffic crippling one of our nodes at Singapore. The Singapore node operates with about 30Mbps of bandwidth, a luxury by Malaysian standards but far short if we need to match any serious DDoS attacks. The node was basically choked with illegitimate traffic. Typical of DDoS network attacks, the origin of the attacks is difficult to pinpoint and sometimes pointless as the attack agents/zombies are likely compromised systems themselves.
We then activated our resources at our US node to recover the site. The process required optimisation on the site to cope with demand. (The demand on the site seemed much higher, possibly due to the interest on the PKFZ expose.) Hence the intermittent site outage, due to either overloading or optimisation process.
Being a service provider of a larger scale and sophistication, the US node has a higher capability of sustaining the attacks. Still, the attacks persisted on a daily basis and we tried deflecting them as far as we could. The DDoS traffic we suffered ranged from 227Mbps to 835Mbps, a mammoth scale for anyone familiar with maintaining Internet sites. The attacker does not appear interested in defacing the website, typical of self-styled college hackers. He/she just deleted articles published on Malaysia Today, literally one by one, with the single-minded aim of erasing all the explosive stuff on the site.
Further complicating the trace of attacks is the use of free proxy servers, on random basis, by the attackers. This is an irony, as we have been advising our users to use such proxy servers to overcome any potential content filtering by the government.
All the malicious activities and behaviours bear the hallmark of professional, for-hire hackers. These are certainly no amateurs, judging from the persistence and frequency of the attacks, with the main objective of making the content of Malaysia Today inaccessible to the public.
We believe that there is NO explicit blocking of the site by the various Malaysian ISPs. The inconsistent and intermittent accessibility of the site in the past many days are the result of the situation described above, although we must caution that it is almost impossible to detect any clandestine censorship.
The MCMC has in the past failed to silence Malaysia Today officially through blocking it in August 2008. Now, with even more revelations of various scandals of the government exposed through this site, we can't help but suspect that there is a more significant force, a hidden hand at play aimed at bringing down Malaysia Today.
This is a copy-paste of an article in Malaysia Today which is facing attacks and sometimes impossible to access. I hope there will be duplicate sites all over the web so that when Malaysia Today is down, there will be other duplicate sites where Malaysia Today's articles can be read:
THE ATTACKS ON MALAYSIA TODAY
Posted by admin
Monday, 28 September 2009 16:21
The MCMC has in the past failed to silence Malaysia Today officially through blocking it in August 2008. Now, with even more revelations of various scandals of the government exposed through this site, we can't help but suspect that there is a more significant force, a hidden hand at play aimed at bringing down Malaysia Today.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
First of all, I have received tons of happy birthday messages via SMS, Facebook, e-mails and postings on this site. Initially, I tried to reply to all these messages one by one but as the messages flooded in I found it impossible to reply to each and every message individually. Therefore, I would like to say thank you and at the same time apologise to all those I was not able to personally reply to.
Now, you may have noticed that of late Malaysia Today has been ‘off the air’ almost every day, sometimes for a stretch of many hours. This has been going on for more than a week. The man leading our technical team thought that maybe we should inform our readers what is happening so that you can be kept abreast of the developments. Rest assured we are doing everything we can to solve this problem.
Nevertheless, there is just so much we can do. Money, of course, is one issue that we have to address, as what would be required does cost us quite a sum. Money aside, though, if they choose to continue the attacks, even money can’t solve the problem. We just have to pick ourselves up and start all over again whenever we are hit and bear the disruptions to the site with a stiff upper lip.
Anyway, let our technical team explain what is the problem we have been facing.
What happened to Malaysia Today
By Malaysia Today’s technical team
With so much confusion and speculation making its rounds about what is happening to Malaysia Today over more than a week, we are compelled to offer our explanation so that the record can be set straight. Only limited technical details will be mentioned to allow you to appreciate the scale of challenge the site is facing.
You may now be aware that the site has been up and down since Friday, 17 September 2009. This was due to malicious activities by those behind the effort to cripple Malaysia Today. This is just one of the many rounds of cyber-attacks that we at Malaysia Today have had to face for more than a year now.
Coincidentally, this latest round of attacks started immediately after RPK’s explosive expose two weeks ago on Tuesday regarding the Malaysian Cabinet's knowledge and 'approval' of the PKFZ scandal long before it became public knowledge. Suspicious activities against the site happened as early as Wednesday, but the first damage was done in the afternoon of Thursday, which brought the site down.
The site was quickly recovered and by 6.00pm we were up and running again although with some loss of data. The attack revolved around the long-time problem faced by the site - a rather old version of Joomla content management system and the use of third-party components.
Lack of resources (financial, manpower, etc.) has always been a challenge faced by Malaysia Today, which affected the maintenance and operations of the site. During the recovery process, we locked down the site to reduce the danger of further compromises.
The next wave of attacks came the following day on Friday. This time it was in a wave of DDoS traffic crippling one of our nodes at Singapore. The Singapore node operates with about 30Mbps of bandwidth, a luxury by Malaysian standards but far short if we need to match any serious DDoS attacks. The node was basically choked with illegitimate traffic. Typical of DDoS network attacks, the origin of the attacks is difficult to pinpoint and sometimes pointless as the attack agents/zombies are likely compromised systems themselves.
We then activated our resources at our US node to recover the site. The process required optimisation on the site to cope with demand. (The demand on the site seemed much higher, possibly due to the interest on the PKFZ expose.) Hence the intermittent site outage, due to either overloading or optimisation process.
Being a service provider of a larger scale and sophistication, the US node has a higher capability of sustaining the attacks. Still, the attacks persisted on a daily basis and we tried deflecting them as far as we could. The DDoS traffic we suffered ranged from 227Mbps to 835Mbps, a mammoth scale for anyone familiar with maintaining Internet sites. The attacker does not appear interested in defacing the website, typical of self-styled college hackers. He/she just deleted articles published on Malaysia Today, literally one by one, with the single-minded aim of erasing all the explosive stuff on the site.
Further complicating the trace of attacks is the use of free proxy servers, on random basis, by the attackers. This is an irony, as we have been advising our users to use such proxy servers to overcome any potential content filtering by the government.
All the malicious activities and behaviours bear the hallmark of professional, for-hire hackers. These are certainly no amateurs, judging from the persistence and frequency of the attacks, with the main objective of making the content of Malaysia Today inaccessible to the public.
We believe that there is NO explicit blocking of the site by the various Malaysian ISPs. The inconsistent and intermittent accessibility of the site in the past many days are the result of the situation described above, although we must caution that it is almost impossible to detect any clandestine censorship.
The MCMC has in the past failed to silence Malaysia Today officially through blocking it in August 2008. Now, with even more revelations of various scandals of the government exposed through this site, we can't help but suspect that there is a more significant force, a hidden hand at play aimed at bringing down Malaysia Today.
Labels:
Malaysia Today
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