Category: Technical Resources

Information Security Event

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With Internet use becoming a more popular activity among Filipinos today, we recognize the need to have a secure environment that will protect the corporate and user environment. In this regard, DigitalFilipino Club and Posh Marketing Services presents the InfoSec Conference 2010 that gathers top practitioners who will share best practices on Information and Technology security.

Speakers from global enterprises, technology leaders, certified security professionals and law enforcers will identify risks, threats and vulnerabilities your companies are facing today. Expect speakers to provide preventions and solutions to protect your business.
Date: August 25, 2010 Time: 9am to 5pm Venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Makati City

OpenDNS issue raised by ASTI

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ASTI shared OpenDNS workaround to an issue with Asia Pacific users hitting their west coast servers and consequently not getting optimal DNS results.

We are actively spending resources on both of these to increase performance and connectivity for users such as yourself. In addition, we do a have workaround that will allow you to gain better performance from the major CDN providers. While the specifics vary depending on your DNS server, the short description is that we will need to configure your DNS server to not send certain requests to OpenDNS directly. Doing so will not affect your Content or Security filtering as these zones are exclusively used for Geo location and content distribution. The zones are as follows:

akamai.net
akadns.org
akadns.net
akamaiedge.net
akamaitech.net
edgesuite.net
edgekey.net
nsatc.net
llnwd.net
l.google.com
b.yahoo.com
yahoodns.com

If you would like instructions on how to do this for your DNS server, please let me know and I’d be happy to provide those for you. We’ll be notifing all of our customers as we press forward on this and continue to deliver better service optimized for all of our users globally.

If you have any questions, please let me know!

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***Solution for Windows DNS***
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Open the DNS Server management console and follow these steps:

1. Left click on the DNS server you wish to manage
2. In the right hand pane, double click Forwarders
3. Add a zone that you do not wish to forward to OpenDNS by clicking the New button

4. Set the Forwarders to either your ISP or another DNS server that does not forward to OpenDNS.

5. Click Apply

You’ll want to repeat those steps for each zone listed below:

akamai.net
akadns.org
akadns.net
akamaiedge.net
akamaitech.net
edgesuite.net
edgekey.net
nsatc.net
llnwd.net
l.google.com
b.yahoo.com
yahoodns.com

For the domains listed above, try using 202.12.27.33 and 199.7.83.42

Sharepoint 2010 Event of the Year in Singapore

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This is is the conference to learn about SharePoint 2010 with expert local and international speakers presenting on topics that will help you understand and succeed with your SharePoint implementations and add real value to your organisation and businesses.

In addition to the session content you’ll have ample opportunities to network with your peers in the community and technical and industry experts including local and international Microsoft Most Valued Professionals and Southeast Asia’s top Certified Partners.

Don’t miss out on Southeast Asia’s biggest SharePoint event of the year! Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore, October 26 and 27 2010. Group Registrations for 5 or more participants are available and will receive a 20% discount. Please note the person arranging the Group Booking (Group Leader) is responsible for all credit card fees and agenda updates for all people registered in the group. Group members cannot individually update their agendas.

Early Bird Registrations of $SGD300.00 will apply to the first 275 delegates who register. Regular Registration fee is $SGD400.00.
To register: http://www.regonline.com/register/checkin.aspx?EventId=877870

Check Out Microsoft’s IIS SEO Toolkit

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The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit helps Web developers, hosting providers, and Web server administrators to improve their Web site’s relevance in search results by recommending how to make the site content more search engine-friendly.

The IIS SEO Toolkit includes the Site Analysis module, the Robots Exclusion module, and the Sitemaps and Site Indexes module, which let you perform detailed analysis and offer recommendations and editing tools for managing your Robots and Sitemaps files.

To install, click this: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9695987

DNS Cache Problems

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BNSHosting has recently coordinated with several larger ISPs and Telcos in the Philippines to correct some possible DNS spoofing issues. The symptoms are that the targetted website is not being resolved properly by other ISP’s DNS.

This article from US CERT on DNS vulnerability (http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113) may shed some light. Some excerpts are reproduced below:

Caching DNS resolvers are primarily at risk–both those that are open (a DNS resolver is open if it provides recursive name resolution for clients outside of its administrative domain), and those that are not. These caching resolvers are the most common target for attackers; however, stub resolvers are also at risk.

An attacker with the ability to conduct a successful cache poisoning attack can cause a nameserver’s clients to contact the incorrect, and possibly malicious, hosts for particular services. Consequently, web traffic, email, and other important network data can be redirected to systems under the attacker’s control

SEM 2009 conference

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For the 3rd year in a row, the Search Engine Marketing Conference 2009 (SEMCON 2009) is all set to happen this October 1-2, 2009 at the Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City, Philippines. We’ll have a whole new line-up of search marketing topics to fill the 2-day conference shared by practicing internet marketing and SEO experts.

Hard-core topics include SEO Ranking Factors for 2009, Writing Killer PPC Ad Copy, Twisted Twitter Tactics, Video SEO and Extreme Local SEO Tactics.

For marketing and agency professionals, we have sessions like — See the Big and the Small Picture using Web Analytics, How to Measure Online Media Values, 20 Ways to Build Your Brand Online, and How to Run a Successful Internet Marketing Agency.

If you want to register or learn more about the conference, please call Fiera de Manila Inc. at the following numbers: +632 896.06.39, 896.06.37, 899.62.16 or email fiera@info.com.ph or log to http://www.imvsolutions.com

SemCon 2009 is brought to you by IMVSolutions , Fiera de Manila and YugaTech. Follow them on Twitter: @SemConPH

Intership for Web Designer at Exotic Resort

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Banyan Tree Hotels and Resort Pte Ltd has open opportunity for Web Design Internship.

Job scope of the Internship:
To design interactive, user-friendly and attractive web pages from concept to final product of the Web 2.0 websites. Assist the Application Manager in gathering user requirements, design, implementation, user acceptance testing and post implementation of web projects.

Web designer essential job skill:
Proficient in using Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash
Good in HTML and CSS
Creative design to ensure website remains attractive and user-friendly with the goal to increase visits & conversion
Active in the usage of new media tools such as social network and blogs
Understanding in AJAX and Web 2.0 technologies is essential

SEO and web analytics knowledge will be a plus
Reporting line: Enterprise Application Manager
Internship for 6 months
CVs routed to: adrian.teo@banyantree.com

Bayan Tree is a leading manager and developer of premium resorts, hotels and spas in the Asia Pacific. They manage and/or have ownership interests in niche resorts and hotels. The resorts each typically has between 50 and 100 rooms and commands room rates at the high end of each property’s particular market.

They operate six business segments – hotel investment, hotel management, spa operations, gallery operations, property sales and design fees and others

APCN Fiber Cut traced to Japan Earthquake?

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Info from PLDT about the Double Fault on the APCN2 fiber cut:

We wish to advise that as of this time, we are affected by an unfortunate incident of multiple international cable faults, particularly in the APCN2 cable system. While the exact cause is still to be confirmed, it is likely that the Japan earthquake which occurred yesterday, August 11, 2009 is the reason for the international cable faults. We would like to assure you, our valued customer, that PLDT is exerting all efforts in mitigating the effect of this outage, including the procurement of additional cable capacity from unaffected international cable systems.

Details of the outage can be found below:
APCN2 Faults:
1: Singapore-Malaysia Fault
Repair is estimated to be completed on August 14, 2009

2: China-Taiwan Fault
Cable fault occurred this morning at 10:45 am;
APCN2 consortium is now trying to implement the APCN2 catastrophic plan for dual failure in these segments
APCN2 NOC is now doing the mapping and manual patching in concerned stations

We shall provide regular updates on these outages. Rest assured that we at PLDT remain strongly committed to our relationship with your company.

Web Writing that Works!

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Effective Web Writing Technics
Taken from the book with the same title “Hot Text -Web Writing that Works”, offers a huge treasure trove of tips to web developers in making body text that help their clients achieve their goals.

Some of the tips include:

    Dont Make me Read. Write 50% Less Text
    Put Conclusions in the 1st paragraph
    Simplicity Saves Attention
    Be Direct. Delete marketing fluff
    Move comparative Data into tables, not into text
    Use the Same titles everywhere
    Write Links that Dont have to be Followed
    Offer Outbound Links- It adds value to your site
    Minimize Scrollilng

Resources to Learn more:
Subscribe: HotText-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Visit: http://www.webwritingthatworks.com