TRIBUTE TO M.A. MAHAMA BY CHRIS ADAMS

It's a sad story, its a sad moment for us all. All we ask is for God to keep him safe wherever he is, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama.
A tribute by Chris Adams has been released following the death of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama. A very touching, consoling and life changing comments.
God is always on our side.
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Global Ransomware Cyber Attack

Global Ransomware Cyber Attack Hits More Than 100 Countries

by Chris Adams 24/05/2017

The largest cyber attack in recent history was carried out in May, involving the WannaCry ransomware. Total impact counts thousands of parties in 150 countries.

In recent years, the cyber world witnessed an increase in the number and sophistication of cyber attacks.

However, all these attacks pale in comparison to the ongoing ransomware campaign by malware called WannaCry that has taken the entire world by surprise. This cyber attack is being observed worldwide since May 12, and is unprecedented in scale.

Europol reported 150 countries had been affected just two days after the ransomware was first observed.

Currently, over 200,000 parties worldwide using Microsoft Windows operating systems have been directly impacted by the WannaCry ransomware.

The discovery of an effective kill switch by an internet security researcher slowedthe virus significantly, but it seems that the ransomware attack may be an escalating threat, with similarly sophisticated attacks in the near future highly likely.

About WannaCry Ransomware

The WannaCry payload is a variation of a ransomware crypto worm, which exploits vulnerabilities in the implementation of Server Message Block (SMB) and Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in Windows.

WannaCry ransomware spreads laterally between computers on the same LAN and through malicious email attachments and websites. The exploits employed in this cyber attack include EternalBlue and DoublePulsar.

These tools were dumped online by a hacker group called Shadow Brokers on April 14. Reports, including one by Forbes, indicate that EternalBlue is a leaked National Security Agency tool and was utilized to some degree as the ransomware’s main infection method.

It is part of a number of tools leaked from Equation Group, which is believed to be related to the NSA.

There is currently no conclusive information about the initial infection vector, although evidence points to an initial infection in Asia.

Once the ransomware infects an operating system, it encrypts the files then requests $300 in Bitcoin for a decryption key.

This ransom is raised to $600 if the victim fails to pay within three days.

Global Impact

A number of factors contributed to the widespread nature of this ransomware attack. Microsoft had released patches for supported versions of its operating systems on March 14.

However, patches were not available for legacy Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 8. Compounding the situation is the fact that very many organizations had not yet installed the patched versions.

According to Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team, the ransomware attack affected Russia the most out of all the other impacted countries.

Ukraine, India, Taiwan, China and Romania were also among the worst hit. The organizations impacted include hospitals in the U.K., FedEx, Spanish organizations, German railway transport networks and universities among others.

National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in England were among the most significantly affected institutions of the ransomware attack.

On May 12, some hospitals had to turn away non-critical patients and divert ambulances. Several automobile manufacturers including Nissan and Renault were forced to halt production following the ransomware infection of their systems.

Although the scale of WannaCry ransomware was gargantuan, security experts say that its impact is relatively low considering the worst case scenarios had the kill switch not been discovered.

One that immediately comes to mind is the possibility of the ransomware targeting critical infrastructures such as nuclear power plants and railway systems.

In recent years, the cyber world witnessed an increase in the number and sophistication of cyber attacks.

This ransomware attack has definitely awakened the world to the importance cyber security. It is bound to lead to some reforms in areas such as governments’ handling of exploits as well as individual and organizational web security implementation.

Not Over Yet

However, experts warn that ransomware like WannaCry may just be the beginning of sophisticated cyber attacks to come.

With monetary gain as the main motivating factor and the recently demonstrated ability to compromise entities around the globe, ransomware attacks look attractive to malicious actors now more than ever.

In fact, there are already several versions of the crypto worm that are not susceptible to the aforementioned kill switch.

These versions are still infecting systems that lack the patches. The kill switch is only applicable to SMB worm variant.

Computers can still be infected in a number of scenarios. These include vectors other than SMB protocol such as emails or torrents, sinkhole domain blockage, internet access requiring a proxy and the event whereby the sinkhole domain is made unavailable (DDoS).

It looks like the malicious actors behind WannaCry ransomware still have a way around the current proposed measures.

There remains the possibility of more malicious variants of the ransomware surfacing in the near future. The direction that any new developments will take is anyone’s guess.

HOW DO PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND I MAKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS

1. Start an Online Business

Numbers 15 and 16 on Forbes’ 2015 list of The World’s Billionaires made their fortunes by starting online businesses — Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder ofAmazon.com, and Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Facebook. Both of these eleven-figure entrepreneurs leveraged the power of the internet to build their businesses and their billions.

In 2015 alone, Bezos saw his net worth increase by nearly 30 billion when Amazon’s stock price more than doubled, according to The Motley Fool. One of his core business-building philosophies: Grow slowly. It took nine years for Amazon to turn a profit. Bezos wanted to keep prices low while reinvesting as much revenue as possible back into the company. The payoff is a company worth multiple billions today with no signs of slowing.

As for Zuckerberg, it’s all about maintaining focus. “I feel like I’m not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on things that are silly or frivolous about my life so that I can dedicate all my energy into building the best products and services,” he said at a Facebook Q&A.

2. Make Smart Investments

The third highest-ranking billionaire on the Forbes list is Warren Buffett. Buffett’s real-time net worth, as of February 2016, was about $60 billion. Although some of his multibillion dollar fortune came from his company, Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett also enjoys regular gains from his personal investments.

His recommended strategy: Holding conservative bonds and low-cost index funds over the long term. “If you aren’t willing to own a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes,” Buffett wrote in his 1996 Berkshire Hathaway chairman’s letter.

In addition to traditional investments, he also recommends investing in yourself. “Anything you do to improve your talents and make yourself more valuable will get paid off in terms of appropriate real purchasing power,” he said in an interview with CNBC. Unlike other investments, the value you get from investing in yourself can’t be stolen or taxed away, he noted.

Related: 10 Best Money Tips From Warren Buffett of All Time

3. Diversify Your Financial Interests

Brothers Charles Koch and David Koch both made the billionaire list with real-time net worths totaling about $43 billion each. The Koch brothers are the owners of the second-largest private company in America, Koch Industries. One of the major ways they’ve been able to build their respective multibillion dollar fortunes is through diversification of their financial interests.

Koch Industries’ interests range from the chemical technology business to oil pipelines, to paper towels and Dixie cups. This kind of diversification is a good way to ensure you won’t run out of cash flow should one of the industries you’re invested in suddenly dry up.

4. Invent a Solution

Many self-made billionaires have made their fortunes off inventions that solve common problems, needs or desires. Michele Ferrero, for example, took his father’s sweets company to the next level by helping people satisfy their sweet tooth with Nutella.

Nutella was born at a time when cocoa was rationed, but hazelnuts were plentiful — offering a creative and practical solution for the sweet makers. Successful inventions aren’t always complicated or high-tech, as seen with the success of Nutella, but they are things that address people’s wants and needs.

5. Be an Innovator

Sometimes the best products are not original inventions, but instead innovations or improvements upon those initial products. A prime example of innovation is billionaire businessman Sam Walton, who opened the first Walmart in 1962.

What made Walmart an innovation was the idea that the business could expand enough to sell products to consumers at lower prices than other retailers, saving them money on their basic necessities. This basic premise transformed the way America shopped, while making Walmart into one of the biggest retailers in the world — and Walton one of the richest men in the world in the process. Over fifty years since the opening of the first Walmart, several of Sam Walton’s family members are still on the Forbes list of billionaires.

6. Pursue Your Passion

Passion is a popular topic of discussion among self-made billionaires. In fact, one of the common denominators of interviews with billionaires in Robert Jordan’s book, “How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America,” revealed that whereas skills can be learned, passion cannot be.

Take billionaire Oprah Winfrey, for example. She could have been just another talk show host, but her passion for breaking down barriers and promoting causes played a key role in shaping her success.

“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint — and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you,” she said, according to TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates.

7. Take Action

Sara Blakely, the youngest self-made female billionaire in history, and founder of Spanx, started her billion-dollar business with just $5,000 in her savings account. She cut the feet off her stockings and wore them under her pants, then used her $5,000 to design a product prototype and get the word out. She worked from her own apartment and didn’t even launch a website until Spanx were a success, to avoid any non-essential costs.

The lesson: Take action. You don’t need to wait for funding to move forward with your idea.

“It won’t be easy. Your ideas won’t work all the time,” said finance expert and host of the So Money Podcast, Farnoosh Torabi. “People won’t always have your best interest at heart. You will trust the wrong people. But nobody makes a million — let alone a billion — dollars because they gave up, gave in or listened to haters.”

8. Collaborate

Many of the newest and youngest members of the “billionaire club” are business partners. To name a few: Sachin and Binny Bansal, co-founders of Flipkart; Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy of Snapchat; and Nathan Blecharczyk, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia of AirBnB.

Having a co-founder can compliment both your skill set and your vision. Maybe you have a good idea, but don’t know how to build the physical product, or excellent tech skills but poor business acumen. A co-founder can help fill in the holes of your experience and abilities to give your business the well-roundedness of a potential billion-dollar venture.

9. Adopt a Billionaire Mentality

Rich people have a rich mentality, according to Steve Siebold, author of “How Rich People Think,” who has interviewed over 1,200 of the world’s wealthiest people. “While the masses are waiting to pick the right numbers and praying for prosperity, the great ones are solving problems,” he wrote. “Anyone can become wealthy. It has nothing to do with your education or where you come from. It’s not what you do that guarantees wealth, it’s what you are.”

10. Change Your Perspective

Instead of simply focusing on building six, seven or eleven figures worth of wealth, change your focus to making things and crafting solutions instead. Create new products, improve current products, help people. But most importantly, keep pushing through.

“The one thing the most successful people I’ve worked with have in common is true and utter resilience,” said entrepreneur and best-selling author of “Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business,” Michael Parrish DuDell. “They are not only good at picking themselves up, but they recognize that in the moments they get thrown off the horse or they stumble, those are actually the most important moments, the moments that end up dictating the next move that they make.”

To grow your own worth into the realm of billions, combine savvy business sense with a passion for excellence, execution and superhuman resilience

THEY ARE RECORDING EVERYTHING!

They Even Know Whats In This Post!

If you don't already know, the governments and ISP's around the world are tightening their grasp and monitoring everything. The Trump administration just revoked the Internet Privacy act so now all the ISP's can and are recording everything you do online.   They are logging everything, they are recording your Social Security Number, your health details, financial information as well as your browsing data and the contents of your emails! This is not just limited to the USA. Australia, UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, heck the entire EU, Asia and most of the middle East have already done this. You can get busted for things you do now, years in the future since it is all recorded and stored. Be vigilant with your online anonymity my friends. You should be doing the following Always use a VPN. Get one here Encrypt private emails using PGP.  Don't post shit on Reddit unless the account is linked to an anonymous email and your using a VPN. Mix your bitcoins.

Some good stategies to become wealthy.

I will keep it short, but this is a tested, sure way to get wealthy based on my personal experience and people I coached to wealth. It's not easy but eventual.

1- No Debts.

2- Improve on existing successful products if you are not creative enough, or make an amazing product/service with subscriptions if possible (will be easier to sell your company later). Target mass consumers and aim for a big audience. Forget about businesses. Statistically you will have better chances targeting as many people as relevant to your product or service.

3-Keep it simple (micro if not nano small and grow organic).

4- Spend more on advertising and sales than anything else. It always pays off and keep growing that spending by adding advertising cost to bring 1–2 more customers so if it cost you 10$ in ads to bring one purchase add 20$ to your price. Read about sales funnel.

5- Spend bare minimum on yourself. The rest goes to a savings account or an investment account in the bank.

6- Pick something you are passionate and knowledgeable about to keep improving your products but don't confuse customers with different pricing models. If you have success on one model, stick to it and if u have a better model open a second store with that new model with different name.

7- Sell that business after you start a new one with success.

8- Buy tiny real estates everywhere and take rent with your savings and sale of your business. Let a pro management company manage your properties so you can focus on your business.

9- If you fail, don't give up. Failure is an investment with compound interest. Repeat.

10- No debts so you can repeat quickly in case of failure.

It will be a hard, painful, and stressful process but in 3 years you will make your first million; in 5, multiple; and in ten, tens to hundreds of millions.

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