An Original Online Bad Boy is Canadian – Mafiaboy

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

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…

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.

Happy #pcto2011 To You

I’ve enjoyed #PodCamp Toronto every year I go. Know how you know it’s a nice crowd? I’ll bet all the jackets were there at the end of the day.

I toured through several pods…that’s Lauren O’nizzle waxing eloquently on social media…that’s good advice about sub-titling your YouTube videos.

He’s totally right, YouTube is right behind Google as a top-used search-engine. I’m the WORST for all that stuff. Ever seen my Canadian Explorer YouTube? Good luck finding anything… I can’t, and I own it.

It’s the between-the-sessions stuff and meet ups that are always the best part of these things, and thanks to all the volunteers for putting on a great event.

You’d think I’d have-self-portraits down by now.  I took two to avoid this.

This is THE Marketing Conference to Attend

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.

Hope to see you there, learning is fun and if you see me yell hi!!

(don’t forget to use this code to register and save 50 bucks).