SECURITY RESEARCH AND DATA PRIVACY
Always Rambling on about Games and Security
Support Agent observations in Tom Clancy’s The Division 2; an online RPG from Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment.
Exploits and Mistrust chronicles
There does come a time when you need to make like a tree and “leaf”. Yeah I know, terrible old joke but pretty true for me right now.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. I want to go fast.”
Jadis – AMC’s The Walking Dead
Vienna Airport opens today so there is hope.
Any fan of AMC’s original series The Walking Dead will be taking note of the parallels to our current lockdown state. Restricted travel is bad enough but travel docs are now more critical than ever. From tomorrow, additional clearance is needed for anyone returning to the UK whether you are a National or Visitor. You are greeted by a horrendous warning if you try to renew your UK Passport from outside the country.
Normal service standards are currently suspended. We cannot confirm when a passport will be received, or when documents provided in support of an application will be returned.
Sunday 7th June 2020 UK Government – Passport renewals
Like the The Walking Dead we do not know the root cause of the outbreak and do not have a cure or vaccine….just don’t get bitten.
Re-inventing your character is a daunting yet a pleasure to re-boot. Let’s see who wins. For the first time in ages, I’ll need to rapidly assess people.
Truth is we all show these traits and they revolve and mutant depending on the season, circumstances and the environment. I’ve officially had to all clear…COVID-19 Negative. Now it’s time to pick up and prepare for the next season.
I’m as uncertain as ever with what is meant to be my “new normal” but a rapid deletion of 1.5GB Tom Clancy’s The Division 1 & 2 severed me from my Clan and gaming buddies for now. My gym is open again and free movement of the people is happening albeit through masked up faces.
Time to move the body, my body
Season 1 is completed and I’ve stashed 3 exotic caches ready for my return after the summer. Last of Us 2 is due for release but I won’t get to play this titles until the autumn which is a pity after waiting years for the sequel.
So, we are finally in the era of borderless networks and 90%+ using VPN and working from remote locations most likely residential homes. How does the user know when work/business activity is separate from private/personal? How does the enterprise know or control this separation? We are now dependent on cloud services; how do you enforce data classification; data leakage or audit activities.
Today’s High Level Targets are sat comfortably in their home office or more often on their dining table with a laptop protected by a domestic router with default security settings.
If EasyJet’s breach from 17th October 2019 and 4th March 2020 has only just been revealed to us, how long would it take to even detect, treat and reveal the breach of a high-level target in their home?
Oh wait, we are all high-level targets now.
