Nuffnang Malaysia has been Hacked by Gaysec

Salam and hello everyone. I just got a news from Amanz regarding Nuffnang Malaysia website which has been hacked by Gaysec. Gaysec is probably a group of hacker or an individual which recently has leaked several users database from several well known websites such as TM Streamyx, Geng Blogger, CIMB and the latest one is Nuffnang Malaysia. Nuffnang Malaysia website is currently inaccessible and it has been placed into maintenance mode. If you didn’t know, Nuffnang is one of the largest blog advertising network in Malaysia and south east Asia, hence this incident would be great challenge for Nuffnang to ensure their website’s security is always at optimum level as well as to ensure their customers and users’ privacy are protected properly. This incident should be a good lesson to Nuffnang.

There is no official announcement from Nuffnang regarding this issue.

Update by Nuffnang Malaysia.

Update: Official community announcement by Nuffnang Malaysia regarding last night security breach.

It seems it takes a long time for Nuffnang ads in this blog to load and this ads loading issue has caused slow page loading for this blog. Hence, I’ve disabled all Nuffnang ads in this blog for a while.

p/s: It is good to know that Gaysec’s objective is not more than just to pointing out the security holes of the websites they have hacked, rather than damaging the system.

April and A Beginning to New Challenge

Salam and hello everyone. Sorry, I still not able to reply all of your comments. But, I’m facing something weird with this blog currently. Starting from 1st April 2010, this blog traffic going down drastically from hundreds uniques visitors daily to less than 20 uniques visitors daily. I don’t know what is happening. I’ve checked hosting server status, it is running without any down time since 1st April 2010. It is ridiculous the traffic is going down like that in less than a day. More weird is that, it is starting from 1st April until today. Seriously, it make me crazy to think about it. Don’t tell me this is a kind of April Fool jokes. Huhu. See the screenshot for details.

Seriously, this is really weird for me. Looks like my blog main source of traffic, which is most of it from search engine; is gone. Do you have any ideas how this thing could happen? If before this I have not updated this blog about weeks, but still, the traffic still okay, around 30-40 uniques visitors daily, but this time, I can’t figure out what’s the problem. Either the problem is from this blog or really from the visitors itself. You think?

I have compared this blog’s traffic with several others traffic analytic tools, such as Nuffnang and Awstats. The result is quiet the same. These results drive me crazy to think how this could happen.

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End of Final Exam and Nuffnang’s Cheque

Salam and hello everyone. Finally, after 2 weeks, my final exam now ends. I feel a bit relief right now and I’m just thinking of getting a great rest for this limited 3 weeks of holiday. Well, I’m still planning what to do in this holiday period.

My final exam ends on last Thursday and luckily, I got my first Nuffnang cheque into my mailbox one day before. Haha! What a great timing! If you ask about the amount, actually not too much. Hehe. But, plus minus, it is equivalently with two times of cash out. So, you may guest how much it is.

Ok, not much of things I want to write right now and above is the picture of Nuffnang’s cheque that I got. Well, for those who didn’t reach the minimum amount to cash out, don’t give up. Keep working on increasing your blog traffic and please, don’t ever ask your blog visitors and readers to click on your Nuffnang ads. It is such unethical to force others to click the ads that they are not interested. I’m saying this because I have seen several blogs do this, so please stop. Because it does not give you much. You better keep your blog traffic up and get those CPM and MCPM ads for more earning.

Ok, till next entry. Bye!

Thanks Nuffnang for 2 Weeks of Advertisement

Hello, I would like to say thank you to Nuffnang for these 2 weeks of advertisement. I know there are lot of bloggers out there already got their first CPM ads so many times before. But since this is the first ever CPM ads for me, so I want to write something about it. LOLS..

Yesterday, I checked my email inbox using my phone. I really shutdown my computer on 3rd May 2008 okay. Hoho.. At least I’m trying to avoid to use computer for the whole day. Haha. But after I checked my email inbox, I found an unusual email in my inbox.. from marketing@______________. Then, I’m thinking.. err.. marketing? Ok2, I know I never received any CPM ads before this so I don’t know this email is actually from Nuffnang. Then I opened the email..and this is what viewed on my phone..

Hi, Muhamad Izzat Bin Ruslan,
Congratulations!
An advertiser has chosen to advertise on izzatruslan.com.
The advertisement details are as follows:
Campaign:
JetStar CPUV Leaderboard
Week(s):
1. 04 May 2008 to 10 May 2008
Ad Unit:
Leaderboard
Please do not remove the Ad Unit from your blog during the period(s) of time above or you will not be paid the full amount for the ad.
If you have a Skyscraper Ad Unit, please ensure that it is placed high up in the sidebar or the advertiser may choose to withdraw the ad.
Thank you.
The Nuffnang Team

Then, I think for a while.. err.. is it means that my blog will advertise CPM ads soon? Yeehaa..!!! ( actually I’m not shouting because at that time I’m in McD, so to avoid any compilation and other peoples around me to say “Gila ka budak ni” so.. I’m just shouting in my heart) wtf. Then, I signing off and continue enjoyed my meal.

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Do You ‘Nang’ Your Own Post? Yes! Why not?

Hello to all, this post is a respond to a post by one of the nuffnangers. I’m not trying to insult or start a flame war or what so ever. But I just want to express my own view and opinion from my own perspective. At first I know Nuffnang, I didn’t really know how to get such an immediate traffic to my blog. Before this I’m just hope that my blog will be listed on the first page of the search result which somehow sound impossible such for a new comer in this blogsphere. But after Nuffnang introduced a system called Innit, everything changed. At least, I still got an amount of visitors in a day even I didn’t post anything new on my blog. It’s better than no visitor right?

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