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28
May

Suka Duka Menyebar Kuisioner Thesis

Hufhhhhhh hampir setiap mahasiswa yang sedang mengalami ujian pasti mengalami masa-masa berat penuh tantangan *tsahh* Apalagi kalau berkaitan dengan Tugas Akhir atau Thesis. Pasti banting tulangnya sudah dari jauh-jauh hari :-D hihihi

Saya nih berasa banget sekarang pada saat harus menyebarkan kuisioner. Tantangannya adalah, target pengisi kuisioner saya adalah yang familiar dengan kampanye #SoyjoyHealthylicious yang diselenggarakan oleh @SoyjoyID di Twitter! HIhihi Kenapa harus responden yang familiar dengan kampanye tersebut? Karena saya mau mengukur dampak kampanye itu terhadap brand Soyjoy :-)

Jadi kebayang ya saya harus muka tebel minta tolong ke temen-temen di Twitter yang gak saya kenal secara personal. Tapi syukur Alhamdulillah responsnya positif dan banyak yang mau bantu! :-) Hihihi Tadinya sih survey menggunakan online survey gitu supaya respondennya dimudahkan. Tapi ternyata data dari online survey tersebut kurang sesuai dengan kebutuhan penelitian. Jadilahh terpaksa minta tolong kuisionernya di download dulu :’( Hikss… Pasti menyusahkan…

Terima kasih ya yang sudah bantu isi kuisioner sayaaaa :-) Oh iya! Ada 3 flash disk Kingston 4GB lhoo untuk 3 responden yang beruntung :-)

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9
May

Still about Sri Mulyani

The twitterworld is still amused by the news of #SMI leaving ministry of finance position to become one of the managing director for World Bank. I was awed, totally! And again, I found an interesting comment about her, leaving the ministry position (and No, you won’t find any accusing comments about her leaving, from me. I’m a drop dead fans).

The article can be read at AsianNetNews site. Below, I highlighted the comment from an inner source I like.

“Personally, I think she is doing this for her family,” says one finance ministry source, referring to her two teenage sons and a daughter attending Monash University in Australia. “The toll on them has been far too high.”

Despite her great controversial figure, we forget that she also a mother of a daughter and two sons. And also a wife, a child, a sister, a cousin, a niece, a close relative for her family. People forget that any accusations on her, will also hurt her entire family. Maybe her moving out wasn’t for herself, maybe it was for her children’s sake. And she has come to her motherhood root, that is to protect her children.

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8
May

Internet Banking security in South Korea

I came across this interesting article that said Korean bank uses PKI mechanism to ensure security on their Internet Banking system. Which means, they’re not using SSL (for those whose not familiar with SSL, notice the Verisign sign on your online banking system? That’s SSL certificate provider. Meaning your online banking site use SSL).

However, the growing usage of smartphones such as Blackberry and iPhone has made the Korean people to plea over the change of the current laws that enforce the usage of PKI-based mechanism on their online banking system. Here’s what the article says:

The Security of Internet Banking in South Korea

For those of you who have followed my blog, you know that it has been 3 years since I first reported on the fact that Korea does not use SSL for secure transactions over the Interent but instead a PKI mechanism that limits users to the Windows OS and Internet Explorer as a browser. Nothing fundamentally has changed but there are new pressures on the status quo that may break open South Korean for competition in the browser market in the future.

In fact, one of the new pressures on the status quo has been the popularity of the iPhone in South Korea, which wasn’t available officially until late 2009 due to a different Korean software middle-ware requirement, WIPI, which has since been deprecated. With WIPI dead and buried, Apple released the iPhone to great fanfare in the Korean market and Blackberry has also launched in the Korean market.

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5
May

Sri Mulyani named Managing Director of WB

A shocking news today that has made it to Twitter trending topic (even Justin Bieber can’t compete with this) is that our one and only Minister of Finance is resigning and becoming a managing director of World Bank, one level below the president of world bank. My lecturer said that it’s the highest position any non US-citizen can become, well because non US-citizen can’t become the US president, rite? :-D

News Excerpt

May 5 (Bloomberg) — Indonesia’s Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who has been a candidate to head her nation’s central bank, was selected to be a top adviser to World Bank President Robert Zoellick.

Sri Mulyani, 47, will start June 1 as one of the Washington-based bank’s three managing directors, the highest rank under Zoellick, the World Bank said in a statement. Indonesia’s stocks tumbled after the announcement left it unclear who will be the next finance minister.

via Bloomberg.com

I hope she’ll be doing good on her future endeavour. I know she will. So proud of her :) what a sweet revenge :D hihi (eat that you Pan**s morons).

Google more here.

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5
May

IPS & IDS

More about firewall, they also mention something about IPS/IDS. Which I had no idea what they were all about. Here’s the cheat sheet from Wikipedia.org.

Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)

An Intrusion prevention system (IPS) is a network security device that monitors network and/or system activities for malicious or unwanted behavior and can react, in real-time, to block or prevent those activities. Network-based IPS, for example, may operate in-line to monitor all network traffic for malicious code or attacks . When an attack is detected, it can drop the offending packets while still allowing all other traffic to pass. Intrusion prevention technology is considered by some to be an extension of intrusion detection (IDS) technology .

Intrusion prevention systems evolved in the late 1990s to resolve ambiguities in passive network monitoring by placing detection systems in-line. Early IPS were IDS that were able to implement prevention commands to firewalls and access control changes to routers. This technique fell short operationally for it created a race condition between the IDS and the exploit as it passed through the control mechanism. Inline IPS can be seen as an improvement upon firewall technologies, IPS can make access control decisions based on application content, rather than IP address or ports as traditional firewalls had done. However, in order to improve performance and accuracy of classification mapping, most IPS use destination port in their signature format. As intrusion prevention systems were originally a literal extension of intrusion detection systems, they continue to be related.

Intrusion prevention systems may also serve secondarily at the host level to deny potentially malicious activity. There are advantages and disadvantages to host-based IPS compared with network-based IPS. In many cases, the technologies are thought to be complementary.

An Intrusion Prevention system must also be a very good Intrusion Detection system to enable a low rate of false positives. Some IPS systems can also prevent yet to be discovered attacks, such as those caused by a buffer overflow.

more at Wikipedia.org.

Intrusion Detection System (IDS)

An IDS is a device (or application) that monitors network and/or system activities for malicious activities or policy violations and produces reports to a Management Station. Intrusion detection is the process of monitoring the events occurring in a computer system or network and analyzing them for signs of possible incidents, which are violations or imminent threats of violation of computer security policies, acceptable use policies, or standard security practices.[1] Intrusion prevention is the process of performing intrusion detection and attempting to stop detected possible incidents.[1] Intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) are primarily focused on identifying possible incidents, logging information about them, attempting to stop them, and reporting them to security administrators.[1] In addition, organizations use IDPSs for other purposes, such as identifying problems with security policies, documenting existing threats, and deterring individuals from violating security policies.[1] IDPSs have become a necessary addition to the security infrastructure of nearly every organization.[1]

IDPSs typically record information related to observed events, notify security administrators of important observed events, and produce reports.[1] Many IDPSs can also respond to a detected threat by attempting to prevent it from succeeding.[1] They use several response techniques, which involve the IDPS stopping the attack itself, changing the security environment (e.g., reconfiguring a firewall), or changing the attack’s content.[1]

More at Wikipedia.org.