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Just a heads up!! I've decided to move all of my non canon verses for my canon characters to another blog. As of right now, that only pertains to Jordi, Dusan, Josh, and RK900. All threads with non canon/human verses will be moved over to the new blog!

If you would like to interact with the OC versions of these 4, the blog is @stvrlyte !!! Sorry for any inconvenience - this is just easier on me!

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How can we stop being cyber idiots?

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Picture caption Are you responsible of poor cyber-security habits?

People are sometimes the weakest hyperlink within the chain in relation to laptop safety. So how can we cease doing foolish issues that play into the fingers of cyber criminals?

While you ring IT assist, the geek on the opposite finish of the road thinks you are an fool. It is the heavy sigh and patronising tone that give it away.

In reality, they’ve an acronym for us – PEBKAC. It stands for Downside Exists Between Keyboard And Chair. That is you and me.

And earlier than you get in your excessive horse filled with indignation, ask your self: when did I final again up my knowledge? What number of on-line accounts do I exploit the identical password for? What number of occasions have I clicked on a hyperlink in an e-mail with out actually understanding who despatched it?

Porn-loving US official spreads malware to authorities community

Yearly we’re reminded how dumb we’re in relation to selecting passwords.

These vary from the clearly unhealthy “123456” and “password”, to the one marginally improved “12345678” and “admin”.

Different in style ones, in line with an inventory drawn up from these present in breaches, are “letmein”, “iloveyou”, “welcome” and “monkey”.

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Picture caption Admit it, you have usually written down your password in a spot anybody might see it, have not you?

With passwords like these, a baby of two might in all probability break in to your account after bashing on the keyboard with a toy hammer for a number of hours.

The very fact is we’re lazy.

“Lots of people neglect their password after which simply use the non permanent password the IT division gave them,” says Thomas Pedersen from OneLogin, an identification and entry administration firm.

“The issue is that these non permanent passwords can typically final a month.”

So in a big organisation, there are doubtlessly a whole bunch of individuals utilizing the identical password.

“This makes them weak to a password scrape assault – taking the most typical passwords and attempting them on thousands and thousands of accounts,” says Mr Pedersen.

“The hackers will get successful each 5,000 to six,000 occasions.”

As soon as contained in the system, the hackers may cause havoc.

How to not be a password poodle

Use as lengthy a password as you’ll be able to address – no less than greater than eight characters

Combine higher case and decrease case characters with symbols and numbers

Attempt to not use simply guessable phrases – the names of your kids, partner, pets, favorite sports activities groups and so forth

Keep away from sharing passwords with different individuals

Use totally different passwords for various websites and companies

Use two-factor authentication

Think about using a password supervisor reminiscent of Dashlane, Sticky Password or Roboform

Main knowledge breaches have gotten nearly weekly occurrences, with Fb, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, Reddit, Wonga, and Dixons Carphone becoming a member of an extended record of company victims in current months.

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Two-factor authentication – utilizing your smartphone or a separate dongle to offer an additional layer of safety on prime of your principal log-in particulars – is turning into extra frequent, particularly utilizing biometrics reminiscent of voice, fingerprint, and facial recognition.

However these are much less suited to the company setting as a result of desktops do not often include fingerprint readers or video cameras inbuilt, Mr Pedersen factors out.

We’re additionally fairly dumb in relation to clicking on hyperlinks and downloading content material we should not, says Ian Pratt, co-founder of cyber-security agency Bromium.

Loads of these hyperlinks are loaded with malware – applications designed to burrow although company safety techniques, steal knowledge and even take distant management of machines.

“Greater than 99% of [malicious links] are run-of-the-mill felony malware that aren’t focused,” he says. “That malware is attempting to unfold fairly aggressively, however they don’t use any intelligent methods.”

The straightforward stuff works.

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Picture caption Many cyber-attacks had been profitable as a result of we clicked on one thing we should not have

“Greater than 70% of the breaches that we hear about have began on a PC with some hapless consumer clicking on one thing that lets attackers get on to the community,” says Mr Pratt.

And hard-pressed IT departments have had their lives made much more troublesome in recent times by the surge in cell phones, laptops and tablets we use for work in addition to for personal functions.

So, many giant companies are specializing in making the desktop PC idiot-proof.

Bromium’s tech works by isolating every motion that takes place on a PC – sandboxing to make use of the jargon.

“Virtually each process carried out successfully will get its personal laptop,” explains Mr Pratt. “As quickly as you end that process we successfully throw that laptop computer away and get out a brand new one.”

Which means that should you click on on a malicious hyperlink, the malware is remoted and might’t escape to contaminate the remainder of the community.

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Picture caption Would face recognition and different biometrics enhance safety within the office?

However keeping track of what we’re doing throughout a sprawling IT community could be very onerous, says Paul Farrington, a former chief know-how officer for Barclays and now a advisor at safety agency Veracode.

Giant organisations being clueless concerning the extent and attain of their IT belongings is “quite common”, he says.

A venture Veracode carried out for one excessive avenue financial institution found 1,800 web sites the organisation had not logged.

“Their perimeter may be 50% bigger than they initially thought it was,” says Mr Farrington.

And this ignorance also can prolong to the variety of computer systems – or “endpoints”, within the jargon – sitting on a company community, says Nathan Dornbrook, founder and head of safety agency ECS.

One in all his purchasers has greater than 400,000 machines to handle, and several other different clients have comparable numbers.

“The machines include substantial quantities of knowledge and buyer knowledge, passwords to inner techniques, and all types of bits and items within the simple single sign-on functions that cache credentials domestically,” he says.

In different phrases, simply one in all these PCs is an Aladdin’s cave to a hacker.

“If one assault will get inside,” says Mr Dornbrook, “you lose the entire enterprise.”

Extra Expertise of Enterprise

So provided that we’re PEBKACs and IT departments are overloaded, automated techniques have gotten more and more mandatory, cyber-security consultants say.

For instance, ECS makes use of the Tachyon instrument from safety agency 1E to assist monitor thousands and thousands of PCs and preserve them up to date with the newest software program patches and safety updates.

“In any other case you simply haven’t got time to react,” says Mr Dornbrook.

Many different cyber-security firms are transferring from a firewall method to automated real-time site visitors monitoring, on the lookout for unusual behaviour on the community.

However it will actually assist if all of us did not behave like PEBKACs at work and casually give away the keys to the dominion.

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URL CHANGE

exploratorymuses >>> dvrklyte

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MAJOR UPDATE

After some consideration, I’ve decided to move my other Detroit: Become Human muses here so everyone is in one place instead of their dead blogs. Those include:

Elijah Kamski

Simon

RK900

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Hyperfixations bring me back here..... I mean, I never have a whole lot going on here anyway, but I like it that way! That being said... There may be some roster change coming up. One for sure is being added...

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Now, officially, everyone has a faceclaim or alternate faceclaim I can use for aesthetics and such. It’s taken time to find the perfect ones for each of them since I tried to match game models or had to really figure out the look in my head. BUT I have finally done it. Here is a quick rundown of everyone:

Jordi Chin - Donnie Yen

(Specifically this one look from one movie he did, Chasing the Dragon)

Dusan Nemec - Nitin Chauhan

Zenyatta, human alt -  Will Devaughn

Five -  Aidan Gallagher 

Elias Bouchard / Jonah Magnus - George Young / Emun Elliott

Emun specifically the look from The Paradise

Josh - Parker Sawyers

Oliver Banks - Nicholas Pinnock

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My muse page has been updated to be much nicer than it was!

Most of the graphics are temporary and some connections and links still need to be added, but... its done!! next step is the mobile one.

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hey - long time no see. Yeah I went away for a bit, but I really hope to get back into this. I never really had a chance to get things off the ground before I just fell to low muse. I’m still really low activity, but I am still open for threads. I just ask for patience!

Also today is the first time Jordi is being dethroned as the highest muse because I’m feeling Elias a bit more right now. Wow. 

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URL change

fleetingmuses >>> exploratorymuses 

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Not that I’m sure I’m going to do anything with it, but I was looking around for a faceclaim for Jordi, for aesthetic purposes mostly but because it’s nice to have more than just his small appearance looks. Anyway, digging around I believe I have settled on Donnie Yen for him as the closest match. Mostly for his movie he did, cha.sing the dra.go.n. 

Trying to find a face to fit a specifically made character is tough enough on its own, but when you try to narrow down to a certain race to stay true it gets harder. Lucked out this time, finding Donnie here by chance uwu I’m satisfied with him. 

[dvrklyte]

Yato has been removed as a muse, but I’m not sure who yet is replacing him 🤔  Time will tell

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New Muse:

Oliver Banks, avatar of The End - Magnus Archives Faceclaim: Nicholas Pinnock 

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Muse to be added:

Josh from Detroit: Become Human

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Muse pages updated and a shiny new dash header has been added! because i didn’t like it for a promo

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Muse to be added:

Beth Boland - Good Girls

Adding Beth under the condition that she is canon divergent in certain aspects. Specifics will be added when the time comes!

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....might just fuck around and add Aiden Pearce to the roster too....