While Aidilfitri is a time for forgiveness, we are not in the mood to forgive MYNIC for their latest blunder, given the sheer arrogance of their press release almost 24 hours after literally wiping ou…
MYNIC services experiencing disruption, all .my domain names affected
Something isn’t right at MYNIC over this long Hari Raya weekend. DNS servers responsible for resolving the .my domain names seems to have gone offline earlier today. At time of writing, some sit…
TM’s big ‘bawang’ announcement is just a Hari Raya ad
Telekom Malaysia (TM)’s much anticipated 8th June ‘big announcement’ has turned out to be a massive let down, and just like the bawang (onion), it has left a very bad taste in everyo…
Leaked customer data limited to only Astro IPTV subscribers provisioned by Maxis, two police reports lodged – Astro
In reference to our report this morning on the sale of customer information, Astro, has confirmed via an official media statement that only IPTV customers provisioned by Maxis are affected. The statem…
Personal data of Astro customers offered for sale online
Update: Astro has released an official statement in response to this report. Last year, when we first reported on the massive 46.2 million telco data breach, we cautioned that if strict measures are n…
Why Crowdfunding Is NOT Going To Help Solve Malaysia’s National Debt Issue
Crowdfunding is an excellent online initiative which has helped countless people and organisations reach their goals, and dreams, simply by harnessing the spending power of the masses to contribute to…
Newly Revamped CIMBclicks Portal Virtually Inaccessible, Customers Not Impressed
All is not well with the newly revamped CIMB Clicks online banking portal which was upgraded over the weekend. The upgrade which was schedule to take place between 16th and 17th March is still experie…
Personal details of 220,000 Malaysian organ donors and their next of kin leaked online
Organ or tissue donation is a noble practice, one that has not exactly picked up in Malaysia. In fact, according to this report, Malaysia has one of the lowest percentages of pledged organ donors in t…
TNB outage takes down DiGi network in Klang Valley – all services affected
Update [11.41AM]: DiGi has confirmed that the power outage has been rectified. Those who are still experiencing network issues are advised to restart their devices. DiGi has also clarified with us dir…
You can now buy a Proton car with Bitcoin and Ethereum Cryptocurrency
A car showroom in Seri Kembangan, belonging to national automaker Proton, is now accepting both Bitcoin and Ethereum as a form of payment for your next car. A promo banner from outside the Proton show…
Data Breach Fallout – Time To Review The Malaysian MyKad Number
It has now been over a month since we first reported of the massive Malaysian data breach that involved almost every Malaysian who owned a mobile phone number up to 2014. Since then we have spent coun…
MCMC blocks Sayakenahack.com
Update : 8:05pm MCMC have confirmed that the site has been blocked on request from the Jabatan Perlindungan Data Peribadi Malaysia (PDP). Sayakenahack.com, a micro site set up by tech blogger Keith Ro…