Maxis Introduces New Mobile Internet Data Plan for 100MB/month at RM18

Salam and hello everyone. After a long wait, finally Maxis is going to introduce new mobile internet data plan for both its postpaid and prepaid customers, but you have to wait until this 16 August to get register with this new data plan. Pretty affordable in my opinion since the current cheapest mobile internet data plan is at RM58/month for 500MB of monthly bandwidth. Well, I think most of us is not going to use it up to this 500MB of bandwidth, hence 100MB per month looks quiet reasonable offer. Plus, its only cost you RM18/month!

Anyway, I hope this will solve my problem with my phone right now. During my first month of using it, I have used 50MB of total data transfer and the charge was about RM3xx! It may sound crazy, but that it is. The reason behind this is I’m not subscribed to any data plan.

Okay, if you want to subscribe to this data plan, wait until this 16 August 2010. I’ll consider too to subscribe to this data plan. I hope my dad don’t mind. *Because he is the one who pay my bill, poor me *

p/s: I heard DiGi also is going to introduce the same type of data plan, anyone with any info?

DDOS Attack on My Hosting

Salam and hello everyone. If you notice yesterday, the connection to this website quite slow and sometimes got internal server error message. At first, I didn’t know what the cause of this matter but last night, while chatting with Sam (Serverfreak Support), he said the servers have been attacked by DDOS attack hence cause the network and connection to the server becomes slow.

What is DDOS attack? Mr. Wiki got the answer.

A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted, malevolent efforts of a person or persons to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even DNS root servers.

I didn’t chat too long with Sam since at the time I chat with him, there’s another DDOS attack. But anyway, hope this problem can be solve asap. Anyway, sorry for any inconveniences for those who are surfing this blog.

But I think the attacks already stopped since the connection to the blog quite fast right now, maybe need time to fully recover from the attack. Anyway, thanks for Sam for his hard work. He already didn’t sleep for 5 days. Ok, that just for your information.

I also noticed that some of other blogs which are hosted at Serverfreak also inaccessible such as Knizam.com and Topotato.com. I don’t know if the problem is cause by the same reason but it seems I can’t access their website in the past few days. I already tried to connect to their blog using both UMobile and Maxis Broadband but still I got the page tells the page can’t be viewed. At first I thought it might be because of the ISP itself, but trying on another ISP also come out with the same result. Till now I still can’t access their blog.

p/s: have you experienced ddos attack before?

UPDATE: IzzatRuslan.com was down for 3 hour 30 minutes from 7.35am today, so sorry for any incoveniences. But, the connection seems going back to normal already. (3.34PM)

Beware! Another SCAM sms

Salam and hello all. I received another SCAM sms last Friday which somehow same as what I was posted before. Anyway this time it was from PETRONAS as it was said in the sms. As I expected, the spammer also used PETRONAS name to send the scam sms. The detail of the sms is as follow.

From:  +60178908327 (Hey! Maxis subscriber again!)

PENGUMUMAN dari PETRONAS Mlys, TAHNIAH! No’ simcard anda tlh memenangi Undian bertuah Cek tunai RM15,000.00 Sila Hubungi: 012 201 5627 / 012 201 8657 Terima Kasih.

I checked Petronas official website, they still don’t have any announcement regarding this issue. Maybe they know but they just ignore it.

So please don’t fell into this trap. Just a simple reminder from me. If you curious to know more, you can call that number above. But, I won’t be responsible for any loss.

p/s: Did Maxis Anti-Spam Protection really works? Lols..

Beware! SCAM & SPAM sms!

Hello all, recently I had read some blogs that wrote about what we called unwanted sms or maybe we can call it spam sms. Guess what, I got it too about few days ago. Something similar with others but little bit different but still, the message in the sms is the same. Another annoying sms is called scam sms. These type of sms should be ignored and never ever follow what you asked to do in that sms. Otherwise, there’ll be something for you.. and I’m sure its not a good for you. And for sure I won’t believe these sms.

Anyway, the thing that keeps me wondering is, how the senders (sms spammers) know my phone number? Because, I have never ever reveal or mention my phone number to any 3rd-party peoples except for something that I really and pretty sure that my phone number won’t be reveal to anybody such as for my university application, scholarship application and etc. Then, how they get it? *thinking..hmmm
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