An Original Online Bad Boy is Canadian – Mafiaboy

Mar 29 2011

Mafiaboy – A Portrait of the Hacker as a Young Man

by Michael Calce
with Craig Silverman
2008

In 2000 the hacker Mafiaboy brought down eBay, CNN, Amazon, Dell, E*TRADE and Yahoo!. Woah, I know. Big deal legal ramifications ensued, he’s totally white hat now, really great story.

Here’s the book’s website and here’s the Amazon link.

The @ symbol was used all the way back then 10+ years ago, preceding your name just like today: @KeriBlog

I’m kinda amazed that DDoS attacks are still the most effective, after all this time… but when I think more about it ,makes complete sense, but isn’t that funny in itself? All that advancement and still one of original tricks is the best.

Did you know Estonia is VERY wired, and the government declared internet a human right.

Just finished this book tonight.

I’ve got a list here of Just a Minute videos to do about online safety. Note the word safety, not security. I’m not an expert. Do not take my word for it, look it up.

Your online security is only as good as you make it.

It’s a big internet out there!

Change your passwords… because when was the last time you did?

Here’s a video about that.

Talking on my Bluetooth Headset

Mar 24 2011

Sometimes I answer the phone like this.

I spend a good chunk of everyday on the phone.

Yes, I’m “that girl” walking around wearing a bluetooth headset, talking.

Laugh it up, I’ll laugh later at your ear tumour, and meanwhile get 50% more accomplished with my TWO free hands.

Cause I wear a fanny pack remember.

Just for 5 minutes.

If You’ve Never Blogged…

Mar 1 2011

There are 3 things to know:

1 – Bloggers have good work ethics and problem-solving brains

2 – They spend a lot of time alone; it’s a solitary endeavour, blogging

3 – It’s the invisible in-between stuff that is most frustrating

If ever you see two people finding out the other also blogs, and they exchange a sort of nod, this is what they’re nodding about.

What’s the invisible in-between stuff?

Kay, let’s post a slideshow. I need one for my new professional photos, thanks Suzy.

First, I need some software to make one. Start researching what works best with WordPress.

Looks like, of all the internet, there’s two real contenders. So choose one, download then upload the plugin, learn it, insert the code.

You might break your own site:

Back and forth between the help file, Google searches and the software. We’re over an hour by now.

Now the photos are too giant and need resizing.

They won’t open in your budget Photoshop version, so find a workaround, which no way will support batch-editing that would be ‘catching a break’, so one by one here we go…

By now you’ll likely look and feel like this.

Oh what? YouTube has stopped working?

Set the slideshow aside, this needs to be fixed right now… (go ‘Get Info’ on Safari in your Finder and choose 32-bit, restart Safari).

Back to the slideshow… check test refresh…. check test refresh….. check test refresh….

All to post photos and talk about …. yourself.

This is what’s behind the blogs you visit, so now you have a better idea of what it takes to post whatever it is you’re looking at.

The end.

PS – don’t forget… that’s great your post is done and looking good, but if no one sees it, what’s the point? And and aaaaannnndddd………

PPS – I lost the edited draft of this post and had to write it twice. Oh irony.

This is THE Marketing Conference to Attend

Feb 21 2011

It’s the Art of Marketing at the MTCC March 7.

I’ve been invited to attend, and click here for the KeriBlog $50 off promo so you can come, too! We can hang out with other marketing people and trade tips.

I’m most excited to hear these three speak:

Guy Kawasaki because hellooooo Cheif Evangelist of Apple, and specifically, he’ll discuss, “how to influence what people will do while maintaining the highest standards of ethics”.

Avinash Kaushik because analytics and are so interesting, and something I would like to be better at. And Avinash’s thing is you can do it in a hour/day, which is great because there is never enough time. Oh time.

And oooooof course Gary Vaynerchuk.

Remember that time I interviewed Gary? Love him.