Tag: risk

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So you think you’ve been hacked

As an individual, where do you turn if you think you’ve been breached and your antivirus software tells you nothing?

Your Internet Service providers? Your bank?
Your email provider?
The techie friend of a friend who can find a job in the industry?
Your insurance company?
Your IT department at work?

…or your friendly neighbourhood CISSP® – Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Generally, though, it’s down to you and Google to figure it out.

Take your life offline if you get hacked.

In the meantime, you stumble around telling friends you’ve been hacked or that your tech is crap.

Naturally, social media is a massive help to find out if someone else has the same problem.  In my experience, the emotional pressure is one of the biggest issues.  Feelings of WTF and “why are they doing this to me” cloud your judgement and objectivity.

Don’t be a victim, be a warrior. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
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Re-directing the bad guys

According to key Internet players, over 90% of bad request use DNS.

Cisco recently acquired OpenDNS probably for this main reason.  Messing with DNS is not even on the radar for most end-users but OpenDNS actually makes it easy.

Problem: Your 11-year old has a brand-new Smartphone and you realise they have access to ANY content on the internet.

Most of us don’t like to turn off Data

Solution: change to DNS from Google to OpenDNS

End result: no more phone confiscation arguments

This is a typical solution that should not be explained to non-technical or tech scared parents.  Just get the most tech savvy adult in the family to configure it and forget about it, no nerd discussions or debates.

Downside: This is only a partial solution as most phones do not allow you to mess with the DNS settings for cellular.

So we can change stuff for WiFi only.  Unfortunately, most of us are using cellular networks for internet access even when we are home.

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Attempting to get it wrong

Need for Speed™ Rivals is a thing of beauty that never gets old.  I first played it way back in 2014 gaining a trophy on 2-December.  I picked up the game again hitting Rank 5 on 1-November 2015 and reached Rank 10 on the 25-January 2016.

I figured out a nice sweet spot and nearly fully upgraded a nice Porsche.  Feels great hitting top speed into traffic and smashing up cop cars trying to get away from pursuit.  Pure mindless Hand to Eye arcade fun.

Need for Speed™ Rivals – No loans needed

I’m planning a Super car real life circuit drive with my girl on my birthday.  She’s an excellent driver and will be aiming at the road instead of other cars.

Need for Speed™ Rivals – I Love driving in America

This is how I quenched my thirst for a real world Porsche

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Isolation mode

Massive titles like Star Wars Battlefront 2 and the Last of Us 2 are set to cause some major disruption to my life this winter.   This is something to plan for.

Almost no calf pain today, not that anyone is asking.

Anyhow, no medication needed.  Decluttering is a constant battle in my life, efforts to create simplicity are complicated daily.  Makes me want to climb up a mountain and find a seat.

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!

Michael Corleone GodFather III 1990

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We told you

It’s not so long ago that the IT sector told the world to get connected or cease to exist.

Now we are telling the world that there is no option but to use the Gigaflops of computing power available in Cloud computing.  Everything is now connected to everything and we are finally globally vulnerable with multiple conflicting privacy, data availability and security issues.

Now what?

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The Cancer Car

Borrowed a friend’s car today and got a little taste of what life used to be like.

The freedom of the road is unparalleled, this little bubble of metal on wheels gives you power and control over self and space to think.

Anyhow, it was just for a few hours but tasty.

The owner is a smoker so it was like driving an ashtray….my eyes, mouth and lungs were crying out for fresh air.

Amazing how smokers are immune to this side effect.  I think I murdered half my taste buds just by sitting in the Cancer Car.

120mg today