Ok, contrary to what I’ve said about taking a leave on Monday, I’ve decided to have next monday and Tuesday as my off days. Hopefully on those two days I can have a good RnR. Due to strict security implementation at our housing area (we dun have any internet connection = very secure lor. heheheh) so there will be no blogging activities for those two days. Ahh… Looking forward for that..

But with these 2 boys waiting for me …

I have my doubt . . .

That’s what I felt this week. I just simply dun have any idea why. I guess I need some break from looking at those packets, thinking about the security thingy. Plan to take perhaps 2 days off. Off meaning doing anything that doesn’t involve with the needs of using my trusted ol’ lappy. Maybe I’ll spend my off days playing with my twin, checking Nisha’s homeworks and school works and more attention to Iman’s needs as well.

I didn’t say I am the busiest man in the world but hey I do know when is the time for me to step back, sit down or lay back, recharging myself (physical and mental) and perhaps reviewing back my objectives, goals and purposes.

Yeah, I think I’ll have two days off next week. No emails, no Internet, no packets etc. I will be just a normal person, a father and a husband. By saying that, it doesn’t mean that I need to have an off day to be a father and a husband OK?

p/s: See? Even my posts became more and more ridiculous nowadays

Did I look like a tired person?

Kinda busy lately and yeah this week (from Monday to Wednesday) I felt like I need another set of me to complete all the required tasks before Chinese New Year Holiday. Thankfully I managed to complete those even though with lots of lots of whining.

Managed to sneak out to the office (btw the boys and gals at my mother in law’s house at Desa Pandan) to check on the progress of our machines (which will be deployed on coming monday) Came across with this article at darkreading tho.

“Antivirus Inventor: Security Departments Are Wasting Their Time”  which is really attract my attention. As  most of the article content really reminds me to Marcus Ranum’s article about 6 Dumbest Idea in Computer Security .

To quote

“or example, today’s security industry focuses way too much time on vulnerability research, testing, and patching, Tippett suggested. “Only 3 percent of the vulnerabilities that are discovered are ever exploited,” he said. “Yet there is huge amount of attention given to vulnerability disclosure, patch management, and so forth.”

“Tippett compared vulnerability research with automobile safety research. “If I sat up in a window of a building, I might find that I could shoot an arrow through the sunroof of a Ford and kill the driver,” he said. “It isn’t very likely, but it’s possible.

“If I disclose that vulnerability, shouldn’t the automaker put in some sort of arrow deflection device to patch the problem? And then other researchers may find similar vulnerabilities in other makes and models,” Tippett continued. “And because it’s potentially fatal to the driver, I rate it as ‘critical.’ There’s a lot of attention and effort there, but it isn’t really helping auto safety very much.”

Agree on this. Reminds me about “Enumerating Badness” from MJR article tho.

“Tippett also suggested that many security pros waste time trying to buy or invent defenses that are 100 percent secure. “If a product can be cracked, it’s sometimes thrown out and considered useless,” he observed. “But automobile seatbelts only prevent fatalities about 50 percent of the time. Are they worthless? Security products don’t have to be perfect to be helpful in your defense.”

Yeah, and anyway you still need to understand the working mechanism of the product tho. It’s useless to have an SIEM that has super correlation engine if you dun have any idea what and how the heck it correlates.

“Security teams need to rethink the way they spend their time, focusing on efforts that could potentially pay higher security dividends, Tippett suggested. “For example, only 8 percent of companies have enabled their routers to do ‘default deny’ on inbound traffic,” he said. “Even fewer do it on outbound traffic. That’s an example of a simple effort that could pay high dividends if more companies took the time to do it.”

“Default Deny” is a YES

I can’t put much comment tho.  My hands are full with our twin and their 2 sisters (sometimes I do feel that they have this some sort of me and wifey’s attention-getting competition”

p/s: Happy Chinese New Year to all my Chinese friends and colleagues

Due to the internet unavailability at our home, I spent most of my weekends (and monday-MC ) finishing my training slides and preparing my proposal for services enhancement of our department besides my routine tasks that are as usual making the twin and their two sisters happy. During one of unscheduled break from those document preparation, like any good father,I’ve decided to assemble Nisha’s new cupboard which we bought I guess some time last year (plus to avoid wifey repeated comments and questions on when the cupboard will finally assembled). So armed with a hammer and screw driver, I set my mind to complete the task as soon as possible.

Nice, the cupboard-howto is at the back of the box. I need to take out every heavy component out from it. 

Every single piece and they are damn heavy 

Assembled the doors. No big deal tho I have talent in this DIY thingy 

One stupid thing tho. Until this stage, I have to take out everything back because…

 
 ..of this thing. Whut the heck.

 
But after some dedication (with some cursing as well) and undivided attention, my task fulfilled.

Even though it did take some time longer than usual and this is my DIY activity after quite some time, I think it’s acceptable. (and no, the twin are not bored because of the long hours but because they were bored waiting wifey to finish her shopping at Jusco)

 
I promised Iman to do something with her (I can’t remember) but only after I finished my DIY activity. Once I complete, she’s already fell asleep in the Twin’s rocker on our dining table.. 

And so I play with Ariff instead as Adam was sleeping. 

This is what I get. Ariff is lil bit nasty nowadays  

And they proceed with their snack. You just dun have any idea how aggressive they are. Poor wifey, she has her hands full  

 And that’s my weekend + monday activities

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,

You make me happy when the skies are grey,

You’ll never know dear, how much I love you,

Please don’t take my sunshine away.

p/s: My twin’s favourite lullaby (besides twinkle, twinkle little star)

Yeah. All of this started from wifey when she had flu + running nose and me with my big mouth gave some wise ass remark like,

“You ni lembik la, asik dapat flu je. ” – “You are such a weak person”

And as a result, it is my turn to suffer the sore throat, headache, running nose, coughing and a touch of fever as well. And thankfully I have a wonderful wifey who willing (or not I dun know ;P) to take over some of my tasks on putting Adam to sleep. Usually Adam will only sleep if I lay beside him and give some soft pats on his buttock while Ariff requires wifey to cuddle him closely or he will start screaming and refuse to sleep.

Speed recovery is a must or I’ll end up doing nothing at the office (Heck I can’t even think properly and lil bit weak due to the lost of my appetite )

 
Sick man