CYBERBOFH's Blog » 2009

How the 140 was born

cyberbofh — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:10:53 +0000

Problem with Facebook for Windows Mobile

cyberbofh — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:21:00 +0000

When I go to Wall I can’t read what my friends have written (or what I did write myself..)

All shows up is:

:a:0"{}.

I did an uninstall and a reinstall of Facebook for Windows Mobile but that didn’t help

So… Now I wonder what this could be. Maybe one of you know the answer to this problem?

Here is how it shows on my phone:

Me posting a test message

Using a web browser all looks fine

But on the Windows Mobile Phone it doesn’t look fine… Weird…

Anyone out there who can help me here?

I’ll have what he’s having

cyberbofh — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:21:18 +0000

Need I say more? I want the same!

Twitter lists

cyberbofh — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:30:41 +0000

Some of us have the Twitter lists now and of course, now people want to be on “your” list.

This cartoon is about the Twitter lists

Trust, but verify!

cyberbofh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:00:28 +0000

Everyone of you knows this..- “Trust, but verify!” – but only a few of you follow this golden rule.

I follow a couple (of hundred) of people on Twitter and on Saturday night I did see this Tweet:

So… I clicked on the link and… WTF?? I got this window popping up

Sure… NOT!

This is a classic case of malware

Why? An Ethiopian goverment site would never ever link to some commercial site to check “your” computer.

Now we are going to investigate this. I changed browser – I was so lazy to use Google’s Chrome because it is fast (but insecure!) – to Firefox because it’s has some nice (security) plug ins

I visited the url again and this is what I got

URL moved? Hmm let me check that..

Linked to sellbit.cn Hey? A clue! Let me (temporarily) allow this to happen…

Look! A link to… traflab.cn Hmm we will follow this one too..

Another one! A link to whale-tale.cn this time.. Again we will follow this one to see where we get..

WATCH IT!! NOSCRIPT is blocking all this and as you can see, again we are linked to some other site. This time it’s 009antivirus.com and they try to run a program

Who and/or what is 009antivirus.com? We check this and see the following info

Hmmm Created 2009-10-28 ?? Just 3 days ago!

We could e-mail Mr Foi M Summer and ask him to explain all this, because it is weird that a link to his site is placed on an Ethiopian goverment site.

But.. we don’t have to… malwareurl.com has some nice info about 009antivirus.com and what do we see?

009antivirus.com is a well know malware site!!

I will not contact him.

What I will do is publish all this info, to share this with you. So you can see that even trustworthy links can be bad.

And… of course… contact the webmaster of http://www.addisababacity.gov.et

and… remember… “Trust, but verify!”

The things that System Admins have to put up with

cyberbofh — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:54:36 +0000

Just one of the things we System Admins have to put up with..

System Administrator Appreciation Day – Gift Idea

cyberbofh — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:07:12 +0000

Friday July 31 it is the 10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day or Sysadmin Day and this is a little suggestion for a gift:

And for the smart ass out there…. I don’t mean the picture!

Sensation 2009 "Wicked Wonderland" – Opening at Friday July 3rd

cyberbofh — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:17:19 +0000

Opening of Sensation 2009 “Wicked Wonderland”…
This was why I couldn’t Tweet you

Blue ribbon to show support for Gilad Shalit

cyberbofh — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:41:37 +0000

Like the green avatar or green ribbon to show support for the people in Iran, there is a BLUE ribbon to show support with Gilad Shalit

Gilad Shalit (born 28 August 1986) is an Israeli soldier who was kidnapped on 25 June 2006 by Palestinian militants in a cross border raid from the Gaza Strip on the crossing Kerem Shalom (in Israel) and has been held hostage by Hamas since.

June 25^th marks 3 YEARS that Gilad Shalit has been herd captive by Hamas

What can YOU do about this? Make sure he is not forgotten!

@arikfr (Arik Fraimovich) made it possible to put a blue ribbon on your Twitter avatar

Follow the instructions on his page: http://twcauses.com/gilad1095

Free Gilad Shalit

cyberbofh — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:15:16 +0000

Gilad Shalit (born 28 August 1986) is an Israeli soldier who was kidnapped on 25 June 2006 by Palestinian militants in a cross border raid from the Gaza Strip on the crossing Kerem Shalom (in Israel) and has been held hostage by Hamas since.

Shalit, a soldier of the IDF’s Armor Corps, held the rank of corporal at the time of the incident but has since been promoted to staff sergeant.

He became the first Israeli soldier captured by militant Palestinian forces since Nachshon Wachsman in 1994. His abduction and the following cross border raid by Hezbollah, resulting in the abduction of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev into Lebanon, occurred prior to the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon during summer 2006.

Shalit holds French citizenship, a fact that encouraged France and the European Union to be involved to some extent in the efforts to release him. Hamas has barred the International Red Cross from seeing him, and demands the release of 450 Palestinian prisoners.
source: wikipedia

What can YOU do about this? Make sure he is not forgotten!

June 25^th marks 3 YEARS that Gilad Shalit has been held captive by Hamas

This Thursday there is a Twitter protest.

Make #Gilad #Shalit a trending topic on TWITTER.

Sign the petition – Free Gilad Shalit

Twitter about him, using the hashtag #Gilad

More info about him at: