#vulnerablities

“Energetically, the body’s accumulated fat cells are our protection from the outside world – a physical forcefield built between the inner you and the exterior to create some padding or buffer. This physical boundary acts as a useful defence-barrier when we are feeling exceptionally sensitive, easily hurt, prone to being bullied, mentally, physically or sexually abused, or feel unsafe but are not equipped with adequate self-defence skills and mechanisms.

Our environment is filled with abrasive energies that can trigger our worst fears and deepest anxieties. Other people’s energy and even ‘society’ (as a mass of collective influences and opinions) can affect our drive in a multitude of ways. Our apprehensions towards a scary or intimidating exterior can leave us feeling very defenceless, diminished, or off-balance.

If you’re feeling the effects of inertia, the storing of unexpressed assertiveness and holding in anger and pain, or suffering from inertia and procrastination, this Full Moon will have highlighted what needs to be worked on. In the absence of our usual activities and busy lives, social restrictions and lockdowns may have meant that food consumption may feel like the only thing you can control, especially if you obsess about staying in control and holding your own space.

Over the next few weeks, the Aries Sun indicates that our focus and attention will be on placing more conscious intent on defining the boundaries of safety and protection we need, as well as recalibrating how we will stand up and assert ourselves out there. 

2021 is a completely different year with many social challenges, and it behoves each of us to stay mentally fit and healthy if we are to defend our deepest vulnerabilities and most precious sensibilities against the slings and arrows of the world of stupid, rude and crude.”

-Ang Stoic-

This week the hacker news brought to light how simple is it to use an image to compromise someone’s computer. Dubbed Stegano, it is derived from the word Steganography, which is a technique of hiding messages and content inside a digital graphic image, making the content impossible to spot with the naked eye. 

Video on Steganography:

Stegano takes effect once a user visits a site hosting malicious advertisement, the malicious script is embedded in the ad which then compromises information about the victim's computer and then sends the information to the attacker's remote server without any user interaction. The malicious code inserted then uses the CVE-2016-0162 vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser in order to scan the target computer to see if it is running on a malware analyst's machine. After verifying the targeted browser, the malicious script redirects the browser to a website that hosts Flash Player exploits for three now-patched Adobe Flash vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-8651, CVE-2016-1019, and CVE-2016-4117. Thus, with the vulnerable Adobe Flash installed the hacker can now exploit these vulnerabilities and use that to gain root access to the victim’s computer. With root access the hacker can access any files on the victim’s computer and use it as a bot in an DDOS attack.

Stegano-Attack Diagram:

New Post has been published on http://citizensjournal.us/bracing-for-a-big-power-grid-attack-one-is-too-many/

Bracing for a big power grid attack: 'One is too many'

Editor’s Note: In light of the recent hacking of every Federal employees’ personal information, including their social security numbers, this possibility is worth looking at.

By Steve Reilly, USA Today

About once every four days, part of the nation’s power grid — a system whose failure could leave millions in the dark — is struck by a cyber or physical attack, a USA TODAY analysis of federal energy records finds.

Although the repeated security breaches have never resulted in the type of cascading outage that swept across the Northeast in 2003, they have sharpened concerns about vulnerabilities in the electric system. A widespread outage lasting even a few days could disable devices ranging from ATMs to cellphones to traffic lights, and could threaten lives if heating, air conditioning and health care systems exhaust their backup power supplies.

Some experts and officials fear the rash of smaller-scale incidents may point to broader security problems, raising questions about what can be done to safeguard the electrical grid from an attack that could leave millions without power for days or weeks, with potentially devastating consequences.

Read the rest of the article on USA Today: HERE

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