PM’s Office Website is Hacked

A business partner sent me a page of a defaced PM’s Office website. The loophole allows any page to be appended to the URL which will display it in the content area (frame) of the webpage. Click here to enjoy!

malaysian pm office website hacked because petrol increase

Magento Shopping Cart Installation

When MagentoCommerce was finally released for production use on 31’st March 2008, open source e-commerce has finally evolved. The long wait for a bespoke open source shopping cart software is finally over.

I have installed several preview versions in a few Linux servers which are located mainly in Malaysia or the US. From my experience, installation of Magento version 1.0 is a breeze. Despite being a newly-launched product and written from the ground up, Magento’s features in both [Read more →]

Adsense is Buying Me a Holiday

I love Google Adsense. Adsense has always make me excited when the clicks and income just keep increasing. Part of the reason, I love statistics and $$. Despite the recent Google smack of my Page Rank, I will be receiving my Adsense income again next month! Woohooo!

Most of this income will be used for my upcoming Mount Kinabalu and white-water rafting in Sabah. Care to donate to my Sabah trip fund raising programme? :D

Maybank Visa Debit Card will be E-commerce Ready

Maybank Visa Debit Card
Around June 2008, Maybank is scheduled to enable online transactions for their Visa Debit card. I am keeping my fingers crossed after receiving the following email from Maybank.

At present, we don’t allow e-commerce transaction for Visa Debit. This facility will be introduced in the near future. We are targeting June 2008, to enable the e-commerce acceptance for Visa Debit.

Maybank Rejects PayPal Funds Withdrawal to Visa Debit Card

Maybank Visa Debit CardNot all credit or debit card issuers will allow PayPal funds withdrawal to their credit or debit cards. The newly launched Visa Debit card by Maybank is of no exception. Maybank as the card issuer has not allowed this activity.

When we tried to add this Visa Debit card for PayPal funds withdrawal, the following error message is displayed:

This credit card has been denied by the bank that issued your credit card. For details on why your card was denied, please contact your credit card issuer’s customer service department. Or, you may want to try adding a different credit card.

Even their customer service department does not seem to know what PayPal is!