Getting Access to Malaysia Today (revised)

Below has been copied-paste from Malaysia Today low bandwidth version (which was taken from UpperCaise) giving instructions on how to get access to Malaysia Today which is still under DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks by professionals most probably paid by UMNO/BN or related to deny Malaysians a source of information:

Getting access to Malaysia Today (revised)
Posted on 11 September 2010
Getting access to Malaysia Today (revised)
by uppercaise

Three ways to read MT if it’s blocked
Try using a proxy server. Go to one of these sites:
1. http://hidemyass.com (Hide my Ass!)
2. http://zend2.com (Freedom of Speech)
3. http://browsesafely.co.uk (Browse safely)
4. http://no3s.info (Pumpkin Proxy
5. Or choose from a list of public proxy servers

There will be a box where you can type in the address of the site:
Malaysia Today’s site address (URL):
http://www.malaysia-today.net/
Free Malaysia Today's URL:
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com



If there’s only a local block on Malaysia Today, the proxy should get you around it, and you can read Malaysia Today normally and even post comments.

But if the site is being attacked, then proxy servers won’t get access either.
Go to No 2.

2. Look up the Google cache for Malaysia Today. It may be several hours or a day old, but at least you can see what was posted. Go to one of these addresses:

» Click here for Google cache of ‘Corridors of Power’
When the Google page opens look for the link as shown.

Click on the word ‘cache’ as shown above

» Click here for Google cache of ‘No Holds Barred’
When the Google page opens look for the link as shown.

Click on the word ‘cache’ as shown above

» Click here for Google cache of ‘Guest Columnists’
When the Google page opens look for the link as shown.

Click on the word ‘cache’ as shown above

» Click here for Google cache of ‘Around the Blogs’
When the Google page opens look for the link as shown.
Click on the word ‘cache’ as shown above

Look up a mirror blog of RPK’s postings.
Mirror blog by Mustapha Kamal Abdullah of RPK’s postings
«Malaysians must know the truth»
If you know of others, please post a link in the comments box below

Read more at: UpperCaise.wordpress.com

Malaysia Today - low bandwidth version

Looks like RPK's Malaysia Today is still having problems with DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) and as a temporary version is pushing its low bandwidth version as a temporary measure to overcome the attacks from those who wants crucial news and information reaching Malaysians.

Good also to check if Malaysians must know the truth if there is any updates.

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.

Mirror site for Malaysia Today

Raja Petra Kamaruddin's blog Malaysia Today which URL is mt.m2day.org/2008/ was attacked and became unavailable after RPK posted an expose of PKFZ cabinet documents.

Thankfully, Malaysia Today is accessible again, but just in case, here is Malaysia Today's mirror site which have the URL www.freeanonymizer.co.uk/anonurl.php?r=on&u=http://mt.m2day.org//2008/.

Please copy and save the link in a safe place in case the powers give problems again. I think I will put the links in my sidebar.