iSD in the Tech Age!



Net-self-defense, we spend an exorbitant amount of time on our physical defense training and then we forget that our lives are in just as much danger of "Grave Financial Harm" or Financial ruin (Death) as if we are attacked by a street predator. Research and studies show, from the security experts in this field, that Anti-virus and Firewall suites only catch about 5% of the threats out there and those same folks tell us that it is in all probability worse at the Enterprise levels.


My goal here is to educate myself, and by proxy, pass on what I learn to others so that each individual who is connected at any level can take steps to achieve some semblance of security in their electronic on-line lives. We are so deeply imbedded in modern technology that to not take appropriate actions to learn iSD or internet self-defense in the technological age is just foolishness.


My goal is to provide enough of a foundation that readers, like me, can take the appropriate actions, i.e., apply those fundamental principles of technological methodologies to safeguard one of the more important, actually critical, strategies and tactics to defend ourselves from grave economical harm or even economical/financial death or ruin from nefarious predatory hacking processes.


Nothing in this blog is definitive, it is meant to set a foundation of knowledge, understanding and awareness so that you are not one day blindsided by some effort to steal your very life out from underneath you so fast you feel like you have been hit behind the ear and knocked into a daze of confusion, fear and finally anger where your tech-life falls apart and ruins your real life utterly, completely and with no light in sight down that dark, empty and black hole.


Tuesday, February 23, 2016

World War III is Here

Blog Article/Post Caveat (Read First Please: Click the Link)

We can’t see it, we can’t touch it and we can’t feel it - yet. It is here and all around us but unlike the older conventional ways humans conducted war this one is not apparent until the individual is effected. 

You won’t get killed (but that is possible too) but your death will be catastrophic to say the least because in essence you can become a form of the “Walking Dead.” Your electron life will come to a sudden and abrupt end, your economic status will cease to exist and the very technology that took it will keep humans from believing you lost it, and they will assume you never had it to begin with. 

You don’t believe it do you? Because you have not personally felt the bullet, you have not personally seen it happen to you - yet, and you have not personally seen the adversary, heard the adversary or felt the adversary attack it must not be true. You are so busy feeling that feeling of satisfaction when you click the links or press the send button or type out that tweet, Facebook like or text - it just can’t happen can it?

You assume and feel that the company that provides your service and data is secure; you feel strongly that because you update frequently to stay with the pushes and patches  that secure your stuff you are safe; you assume that all those web sites, programs and apps are created securely and are updated and patched almost every week you are safe. You are not actually all that safe. 

WWIII is out there and going on as you type that text, enter that Facebook personal information about your day, and sending out those minute-by-minute tweets and just because the Shelling of bombs has not hit you yet and just because the bullets have not hit you does not mean the war is not in full swing. 

This is the nature of the Cyber Wars, WWIII, the fact that you don’t think it can happen to you and that you are fully and completely protected by the AV programs, the firewalls and the encryptions does not mean the war is not on right this very moment. You just have not as yet become a casualty of that war but the time will come and sooner than you think when your screens and electronic life will suddenly go black. 

If you don’t believe me and if you don’t believe that all the information out there has not indicated this then take a moment to seek out the answers for, “The information is out there, you just have to let it in!”

It is so much easier to ignore it, you can’t see it, feel it, or hear it like conventional wars where humans are facing one another across a battle field firing weapons and feeling, hearing and seeing the bullets, rockets and mortars whizzing, whistling and exploding all around you until that, “One bullet or fragment” hits you and you bleed out. It is easy as heck because the Cyber War is one that is fought silently, swiftly and most deadly. Do you really want to wait till that adversary you will never see, “Clicks that mouse just once” to trigger that silent but deadly weaponized code? 

Now, you expect me to say, “There is still time to safeguard yourself, your data, your personal life and welfare, etc.,” but there isn’t, it is all just LUCK that we have not yet succumbed to the predatory nature and actions of those who would see us all dead, destitute and economically destroyed. Start NOW, Start HERE: Goodman, Marc. “Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It.” Doubleday. New York. 24 February 2015. 


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