Published by Preethi on 30th July 2008
Ahh another couple of weeks have gone by so fast, without me posting anything! Well the truth is I was writing but not publishing some of my posts! Just wanted more content in them!
So to add to my “Just Launched” section, I have been working on Tivo Project for Yahoo!7 that lets the Yahoo!7 TV-Guide users to remotely record the programs onto their tivo boxes and its just been launched a couple of hours ago! Check it out at Yahoo!7 TV-Guide Its an amazing project which has seen lots of team effort and also big support from the top management here!
Tivo lets the users record free to air programs onto their boxes! This can be done directly on the box or by using the tv-guide and I personally think its amazing! The underlying technology is a lot of PHP 5, using webservices and its awesome!
So go get your tivo boxes and enjoy it 
Published by Preethi on 3rd July 2008
Yahoo!7 has just launched the new redesigned News and HomePage
The news has been launched last night and I love it for its nice whitish look now and no flashy colours! Its so much nicer and cleaner when compared to the previous site and is emphasising more on the content! The content is amazing with more than 20 providers and 4 bloggers feeding it with worldclass stories and articles. I just find the interface more user friendly and is easier to find the specific content! With much better navigation and more videos on it I think its definitely one of the best news sites!
And the new homepage!! Have you had a look at it yet? If not you should be jumping straight onto it! Its got loads of personalised and localised content on it! The one-stop for the Australian Users! I personally think its a sign that Yahoo! is improving on its cross-property integration problems! The integration of movies, maps, news, entertainment into home page speaks a lot!
So enjoy the whole new personalised experience!!
Published by Preethi on 29th May 2008
I was reading this article Phishing ANZ customers and so I started to think more about phishing and doing a bit of research on the past “phishing classics”.
Now, I am not a security engineer, so dont expect me to give you all the security tips and tricks. When I was in my first days of college, I always wanted to become one. May be one day I will get there. I was very much impressed by firewalls. Infact I even did a tech-talk on that topic.
So, to keep ourselves restricted to the scope of this post 
‘phishing’ , which the term might have arised from fishing + phreaking, means impersonating something/someone else and tricking customers for financial advantages or to obtain user credentials.
Phishing can be done in different ways, for example the news article that I have referred to in SMH speaks about a technique where the users get an email with some text and a link. The email content usually will give a legitimate impression to the user. The link will be to a site that impersonates the original site (in this case ANZ) and might request the user to login and thus can get the user credentials. In ANZ instance, the email went around to the bank customers and it contained a link to a site whose url, look and feel and content was very similar to the ANZ’s. It had login prompt where the users entered their customer number and their pin. So the phishers now got access to this sensitive data!!
Phishing techniques include using a seemingly legitimate link text or impersonating the look and feel of the site along with its url. After a few anti-phishing techniques have been developed to identify the most common phishing link text, many of the ‘phishers’ started using images to overcome them.
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