My dear website deserves more than just a short post’s mention, but I’m afraid this event comes amidst an extremely busy time of my life…

But anyway ladies and gentlemen, it is my tremendous pleasure to announce – the fifth anniversary of James-Chow.com! YAY!

Yes, it’s already been 5 years!

I wouldn’t say that I didn’t expect my blog to survive this long. I have always committed myself to maintaining this website as a personal diary of the important events that I’ve gone through… but STILL – this is great milestone to be celebrated!

It all began in the first month of my first year in university – June 2006 – when I finally registered the domain name – James-Chow.com. 

It was more of a fun experiment back then. A housemate of mine and I had been doing some simple websites and hosting a forum board back in my foundation year (2005), to cater to an online game private server that was hosted on my computer.

The administration of this forum board gave me the inspiration and know-how to create a blog of my own and before I know it… it’s five years old now! *teary eyes*  

Let’s look forward to lasting another memorable five years.

LOL Just minutes ago at 3.30AM, international hacking group Anonymous commenced their planned attack on the websites of numerous Malaysian government and government-linked agencies.

Dubbed ‘Operation malaysia’, the operation is seen as an international response towards the government’s recent announcement to increase internet censorship.

So far (4.13AM Malaysian time) 24 sites have been successfully exploited, according to this website which has been tracking the entire hacking operation.

I made some quick checks and holla! Those government websites ending with a “.gov.my’ are either defaced, DoS’ed (not responding), or temporarily shut down.

Check out these sites knocked out by DoS attacks:

Official Malaysian Government Website: www.malaysia.gov.my:

Malaysian Parliament: www.parlimen.gov.my:

Malaysian Treasury: www.treasury.gov.my

Information Ministry: www.kpkk.gov.my

Election Commission: www.sprm.gov.my

Ministry of Education: www.moe.gov.my

… and some that are switched off by their own webmasters and a temporary site down message was put up, such as the Sabah Tourism website:

Land Public Transport Commission:

Some other unluckier agencies’ websites are even defaced!

Such as the Social Welfare Department: www.jkm.gov.my

Johor Biotech Corporation: www.jbiotech.gov.my

Poor UiTM Penang’s website has a very funny birthday song!

The Sabah Tourism website is probably hit worst because not only did they hack the website, they leaked all the internal server information and private user information!

Peoples’ names and emails all laid bare!

So far, the three government ‘stronghold’ websites, internet watchdog Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (www.skmm.gov.my), Prime Minister Najib’s www.1malaysia.com.my, and state broadband provider (www.tm.net.my) are the only three survivors of the internet carnage, although the 1Malaysia site is already snapping under the HUGE amount of ‘visitors’ from DoS attacks and I have seen it gone inaccessible several times in the past one hour or so.