SECURITY RESEARCH AND DATA PRIVACY
Always Rambling on about Games and Security
Always learning
17 days ago, I was washing and splashing about with an elephant…yes, a real adult elephant in Indonesia. Today, I am trying to work out how to tackle my well-overdue CCAK exam.
So my tactic is to do a little bit of daily work and build up my exam readiness muscle memory.
This is by no means easy as my struggle is distraction avoidance. With my PS5 secured and stored in my garage, there will be no game time just a second-hand view on Twitch.
A stark picture was painted by CheckPoint founder Gil Shwed who stated very clearly how the landscape is getting more and more complex with a monster of 16 attack vectors with countermeasures of 26+ security technologies ramping up to a complexity rating of 416 just to stand still.
An absolute nightmare for any Security Analyst responsible for the organisation’s controls.
In the meantime, new threat actors are born everyday.
My professional life involves constant deep dives into Other Peoples’ Problems (OPP)….taking on the same ethos in my private life is truly a different matter.
Today, getting intimate with peoples’ digital life is way too risky and a very Thankless endeavour. Taking on any private system admin task means exposing yourself as a technician to unwarranted criticism and abuse; get it a wrong and you’re a snooping idiot IT guy, get it right and nothing is said.
It’s a constant catch 22 scenario especially when you can see friends and family making familiar tactical and operation errors i.e. never ever backing up their data, never encrypting their data and never changing their passwords.
Here are 10 things that people don’t change often.
Change bank account or card Change email address Change passwords Change phone device Erase or reset phone device Change phone number Change social media accounts Change inner friend circles Change ISP or Geolocations Change public IP address
Tactical Reconnaissance: Basics for profiling, tracking or snooping.