23 Jan 2024

My day started with the book "The 48 Laws of Power ". I have been reading this book for a while and mostly I just like to read the parts where the author is talking about history, I was learning about COURTIER today. The ability to be in a high position in court and still not be able to tell your ideas freely fearing how the king might take it is something I find very amusing. It must've been one of the most unique and " a word I need to look for in the dictionary " jobs at the time..but the author says that where there are laws of power there will always be a court so I guess we don't know who is doing this hard job right now.

then I started learning some stuff from cyber security since I always wanted to learn a bit outside web development and my current elective course is " Offensive Security " I guess I need to step up early in this subject.

Virus : A malicious code written to harm your computer operations/data.

Brain Virus : In 1986, The Alvi Brothers created the virus to track illegal medical software to prevent pirated licenses. But it has affected so many computers over the months that it has affected the business in a bad way.

Morris Virus : In 1988, Robber Morris developed a program to assess the number of devices connected to the internet. The program will crawl through the web and install itself on computers to tally the number of connected devices. But it wasn't programmed to keep track of the computers it had already checked, this caused it to re-install again and again until the system ran out of space. It caused a lot of damage to the industry and CERT was established after this attack.

The modern era gave birth to new kinds of attacks with the ease of sharing them over the internet.

Love Letter Attack: Onel de Guzman in the year 2000 started this attack to get the login credentials of victims. The victims will get an email titled " Love Letter " with an attachment. This attachment when opened will get information about the victim and send the mail to its contacts making it look like a love letter from a friend. This is what we call Social Engineering.

Oh man, I forgot to complete this in time, I got a lot of work from my internship all of a sudden, and boom, all my plans for the night were destroyed. Well, I learned some things about the Punic War…maybe if I had ignored it and focused on my DSA revision I wouldn't feel so guilty. Anyways what's done is done, The Carthaginians were some really rich unlucky folks.

Alright, everyone..meet you tomorrow.