It is amazing how popular you can become once you put yourself out on the internet. Keep in mind this is a warning to all those on Blog, Facebook, Linkedin, and other forms or “Social” interaction. I had been reading from some other Blogs that I follow that they were constantly under attack. Attack by means of false access to what ever little piece of the internet they might have or keep or use? I was not so naive to think that my little website and blog was being missed by all those SCUM types. I just was not aware of how much they were trying… I had been hacked last summer and that was a password issues on the main access to the “backend” of my site. That has been improved… but am sure I need to swap out the difficult password on periodic time intervals… I have also change the passwords on my blogs and other access points as well to some that are … for lack of better description… random letters, characters, etc…
As a side note here, it would be well worth everyone’s time to invest in some quality password generators, keepers, encryption software, etc… the days of simple stuff are probably long gone… until we are all implanted with specific codes that only we our our eyes or fingers can pass, and even then I would guess hackers will find ways to figure out what those codes are and how to use them… anyway get a good password keeper and use it… and do not use the same password for multiple accounts, unless you want them hacked…
some weeks ago I put some extra levels or security on my simple blog site… it ID’s those trying to gain access by IP address and if they fail 3 times they are shut out… I set that for 36 hours so maybe they will go away. I also get emails to the fact that some IP failed 3 times… and many of those I do a “whois” search and find they are from some odd place but lately I have been getting a lot that list “AMAZON” as the IP owner… I guess amazon has a lot of IP’s and sells or rents or ? what ever those IP’s It is now interesting to see where they are from… before I permanently lock it out… Recently the emails of failed attempts have increased… for weeks I didn’t get maybe one ever few days but this week it is 10 a day or more… so , I spent today adding even more levels of security to the simple website… more notices and more blocks and controls as well as other things that some of that security stuff does… Not sure it will do any better job of protection but at least now it will take the “CRACKBOTS = CRACKPOTS” more attempts to find the holes…Anyway it was cold out, I didn’t want to start something else, and it was interesting , for awhile.
Todays activities were to meet with my advisor, make a trip to town for lunch with my lovely wife… pick up a few things and I failed to get one thing I wanted (simple fuses for a radio project) and then finish up that web stuff and fix dinner… tonight dinner… left over chicken tender grills and more of those easy Crispy Parmesan Potatoes on the grill…
Potatoes ready for grill..
Potatoes done…
Chicken tenders, wrapped in bacon, with hot pepper in the center… actually these are out of the freezer, and rewarmed but still great… I did put them on the grill for about 15 minutes to re-do the bacon to a proper crispy…
Then out to the shack for some radio time…
WD0AJG
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