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[jessediliberto]

Jesse Diliberto Shares Top 10 Time Hacks for Sales Success

Join us for the newest episode of Top 10 Time Hacks for Sales Success, where we have an insightful conversation with the renowned sales expert, Jesse Diliberto. Together, we delve into the realm of sales and explore Jesse's top 10 time hacks that are guaranteed to boost your success in this competitive field. Get ready to gain invaluable knowledge on prioritizing tasks, harnessing the power of CRM systems, and maximizing productivity in today's fast-paced sales environment. This is an opportunity you won't want to miss if you're looking to take your sales game to new heights and achieve remarkable success!

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Mastering the Clock: How to Effectively Manage Time as a Busy Student

Being a student often means juggling an array of responsibilities, from classes and assignments to extracurricular activities and personal commitments. Time management is the key to not only surviving but thriving in the demanding world of academia. In this article, we'll explore practical strategies for busy students to effectively manage their time and strike a balance between academics and life.

1. Prioritize Tasks: Start by identifying your most important tasks and deadlines. Create a to-do list and prioritize items based on urgency and importance. Tackling high-priority tasks first ensures that critical assignments are completed before moving on to less pressing matters.

2. Set Realistic Goals: While ambition is commendable, setting unrealistic goals can lead to stress and burnout. Establish achievable daily, weekly, and monthly goals. Break larger tasks into smaller, more manageable steps to make progress more tangible and less overwhelming.

3. Create a Schedule: Developing a daily or weekly schedule is a powerful time management tool. Allocate specific time slots for classes, study sessions, work, and extracurricular activities. A well-organized schedule provides a visual roadmap for your time and helps prevent overcommitting to tasks.

4. Learn to Say No: As a busy student, it's important to recognize your limits. While extracurricular activities and social events are valuable, there are times when it's necessary to decline invitations in order to prioritize academic responsibilities. Learning to say no allows you to protect your time and maintain a healthy balance.

5. Eliminate Time Wasters: Identify and minimize activities that consume your time without contributing to your goals. Limit distractions such as excessive social media use, unnecessary meetings, or unproductive habits. Use apps or tools that block distracting websites during study sessions to maintain focus.

6. Take Breaks Mindfully: While it may seem counterintuitive, taking breaks is essential for maintaining productivity. However, ensure that your breaks are purposeful and not prolonged. Short breaks between study sessions can help refresh your mind, preventing burnout and enhancing overall efficiency.

7. Utilize Time Management Tools: Explore the myriad of time management tools available. Calendar apps, to-do list apps, and project management tools can help you organize tasks, set reminders, and track progress. Find the tools that align with your preferences and integrate them into your routine.

8. Embrace the Pomodoro Technique: The Pomodoro Technique involves working in focused intervals, typically 25 minutes, followed by a short break. After completing four intervals, take a longer break. This technique promotes sustained focus and prevents mental fatigue.

9. Delegate When Possible: Recognize when it's appropriate to delegate tasks. If you're part of a team project, distribute responsibilities among group members. Delegating not only lightens your workload but also fosters collaboration and shared accountability.

10. Reflect and Adjust: Regularly assess your time management strategies and make adjustments as needed. Reflect on what is working well and what can be improved. Be flexible and willing to adapt your approach based on your evolving priorities and circumstances.

In conclusion, effective time management is a skill that can significantly impact a student's success and well-being. By implementing these strategies, busy students can navigate their academic journey with greater ease, allowing for both productivity and a more balanced and fulfilling college experience. Remember, mastering the clock is not about having more time; it's about making the most of the time you have.

[unichrome]

The biggest heist that almost was

Let me tell you about the most insane bank heist that is going to sound like I'm just leaking the script for the next American hacking movie. The goal? Steal one billion USD. And it all began with an email and a printer, which as we all know is where problems usually start. Another weapon in this heist was... Weekends and time zones.

As usual, no prior computer science education needed.

What happened?

On the morning of February 5th 2016, a printer had stopped working in the central bank of Bangladesh (Bangladesh Bank). But it wasn't just any printer, it was the printer responsible for printing all the records of the multimillion transfers going in and out of the bank. When the poor employees finally won the printer battle and had it resume normal operation, they saw a very concerning account transfer in the records that was coming out. The bank had an USD account in the USA, at Federal Reserve Bank, with approximately 1 billlion Dollars in it, and the Federal Reserve Bank had received instructions to drain almost the entire amount. In the records that came out in the printer, the American bank had attempted to urgently message the Bangladesh bank regarding this transfer, but couldn't get through to them. This was because the hack had actually started the day before, Thursday 4th, at around 20:00 Bangladesh time, when the bank was closed. However, USA had just started their day, giving the American bank plenty of time to follow through with the instructions from the Bangladesh bank to drain their entire account while they were closed. And that wasn't the end of it, as weekends are from Friday to Saturday in Bangladesh, meaning that the Bangladesh bank headquarters in Dhaka wouldn't discover this withdrawal until Sunday morning. That's when they immediately tried to reach the American bank, which of course didn't work as over there it was Saturday evening, and the American weekend is from Saturday to Sunday, meaning that they wouldn't be reachable until Monday.

You see what I mean by the hackers using time zones and weekends, finding the perfect time for the American bank to execute their orders while Bangladesh discovers the withdrawal several days too late, and again several days too late for Americans to be reachable. But it didn't stop there with their timehacking.

The money had to go somewhere from the American bank, and it would be stupid to send it directly to the hackers own account without laundering the money first. So they had set up four different bank accounts in the Philippines, using fake names and credentials. Why the Philippines? Because the Lunar new year was on Monday the 8th, which is a holiday and holiday means no bank activities in either Bangladesh or the Philippines, buying the hackers even more time. As a final act, they messed with the printer responsible for printing transaction records, adding another few hours to their schedule. Moon and stars really aligned perfectly for this plan.

But how did they do it?

It all began one year prior, in January 2015, with an email sent to several employees at the Bangladesh Bank. The email seemingly contained a job application from a person who didn't actually exist, but who was very polite in his request for a position at the bank, with a link to his CV and cover letter. Naturally this link led to a document with a little surprise gift - malware. Since the heist happened, at least one of the recipients must have clicked the link, and successfully deployed a RAT - Remote Access Trojan, malware that lets you control a computer from the comfort of your own home, as well as a toolkit with various malware to move from computer to computer, avoiding discovery, and covering their tracks.

From there, the hackers slowly made their way through the bank offices network, one step at a time to avoid setting off alarms, looking for any computer that had control of the banks SWIFT setup. SWIFT lets banks transfer large amounts of money between themselves and other banks connected to SWIFT. And as soon as they found one of those computers, they stopped. They didn't need to hack SWIFT in the traditional sense of the word - since they operated in a bank computer, the SWIFT-software assumed they naturally had to be bank employees. However, one of the parts of the malware used in the heist was for manipulating the SWIFT system, as the hackers weren't physically there to press anything. Additionally, since they were laying dormant for the time to strike, they needed to keep an eye out for SWIFT updates that could detect any tampering with the system, and adapt accordingly.

Then they waited many months for the stars to align on February 4th, 2016.

There were 35 transfers made by the hackers from the American bank account, totaling almost 1 billion USD, but there were two of these tiny little seemingly insignificant details that prevented this from becoming the worlds largest bank heist in history. The hackers biggest enemy became this concept known as “words”.

The Philippine bank accounts were all located in the same RCBC Bank office on Jupiter Street in Manila. And this would be the hackers downfall, as USA had sanctions put on an Iranian cargo ship called Jupiter. Since the transactions went to a recipient that contained the word “Jupiter”, it created a security alert in the Federal Reserve Bank that the employees needed to investigate. When they saw what was going on, they managed to stop all but five of the initial 35 transactions, thus “only” roughly 100 million USD made it to the Philippines. The Bangladesh bank requested to reverse the transactions, but since the money was in the Philippines, they would need bureaucracy in form of a court order to reclaim the money, and we all know that's not a 5 minute project. It was when Bangladesh filed the court order in late February that the case became public (since court orders are public documents) and the news broke to the country.

Once in the RCBC bank accounts, the money arrived on Friday the 5th and was immediately moved again. First the 100 million was converted to local currency, and some of it was withdrawn in cash, while the rest was sent off to other hacker-controlled locations. And this is where the second tiny little detail cut off even more of the hackers precious payday. 20 million USD had been sent to Shalika Foundation, a charity organisation in Sri Lanka. But,  once again the hackers worst enemy - words - decided to strike again. A typo was made in their transaction, sending the money to “Shalika Fundation”, and a bank employee who must have had their morning coffee spotted this typo and rejected the transfer and kept the funds frozen. This left the hackers with 80 million USD.

✨Now comes the money laundering!✨

There was a second reason for choosing the Philippines as deposit zone; gambling is legal and the casinos had no money laundering regulations imposed. The accomplices of the heist booked private rooms in two casinos located in Manila - Solaire and Midas - and proceeded to purchase tokens to gamble for with the stolen money. Since they played with a room consisting of their fellow accomplices, winning was not really much of a challenge. Then the tokens could be exchanged back to money that would now be clean. To avoid suspicion, they didn't gamble all of the money at once, but over the course of several weeks gambled away the dirty money to clean money.

Who was behind it?

It's normally difficult to pinpoint where the more sophisticated hacking groups come from. Oftentimes, they will leave false clues behind that points to another group so they will face more trouble instead of the group that did it. They may even place clues from several different groups, just to mess with the analysts. It's also quite common to simply “steal” a way of working from another group, or use a leaked/stolen tool from another group (criminals aren't safe from other criminals, especially not in this business) - there are new malware coming out all the time with code that is just a slight modification of a well-known malware actor that had their source code leaked or simply had hired the same programmer. Or they may leave no clues as to who was behind it. Attribution to the guilty part is usually the single most difficult mission in IT-security - often it's just pure guesswork with little to no solid evidence to back it up, if you're lucky there's circumstantial evidence.

This case was no different. The first clue came from the IP the bad guys used to connect to the Bangladesh bank from. It was located in Pyongyang, North Korea. But, as I mentioned, this is not a conclusive verdict, as the IP may simply be planted false evidence to throw the analysts off their track. After the heist, the hackers used a data-wiper to scrub as much of their malware off the bank systems, but they didn't succeed in deleting all of it, some of the tools were still present, including the wiper.

Due to the scale of this operation, it caught the attention of every single IT-security person and IT-security company worldwide, who all of course wanted to know who and how they did it. With the remaining malware, a joint effort was made, comparing malware code to other malware code for similarities. Some was found in Poland, after an analyst noted the similarities from another suspected North Korean hack. Some was found in another infamous North Korean hack targeting Sony Pictures. More and more signs pointed towards the same actor. Some were false leads, the hackers seemed to be wanting to implicate the Russians did it, but failed quite miserably at that, just sprinkling random Russian words into the malware and making it way too obvious it was a ruse.

You may not believe this, but the North Korean government has one of the most notorious hacking groups in the world, known as the Lazarus Group. Some of its more well-known adventures include an extremely data-destructive hack of Sony Pictures (as punishment for releasing “The Interview”), creation of the ransomware WannaCry which was used against many targets worldwide (including hospitals), and various attempts at gathering information from governments and government-affiliated corporations all over the world. And, of course, this heist.

Eventually, after months of collaboration all over the world, the final verdict fell on North Korea, and specifically one of their programmers. His name is Park Jin Hyok, and worked for Chosun Expo - a front company for the North Korean government, located in Dalian (China) who used the funds of the fake corporation gained from legitimate programming jobs from customers worldwide to create the malware and plan the heist with all of its expenses. Of course he wasn't the sole person involved in this project, but it's the only person we know was in it.

This particular heist had been meticulously planned for several years, and Park Jin Hyok had moved to Dalian, set up fake IDs and built a network of contacts there to avoid suspicion. However, he didn't manage to delete all of his online footprints, and became the number one suspect when his internet activities suddenly came from Pyongyang, North Korea.

Additionally, several Chinese business men - many associated with the casino industry in China's Macau territory - were also charged and arrested for assisting with setting up the gambling rooms and coordinating the money laundering process. One unknown Chinese business man managed to get away with 31 million USD of the 80 million that remained after the heist, and as you would expect, he was never to be seen again.

With the middlemen from China paid off, not much remained of the original 1 billion to North Korea. But the heist has fascinated the whole IT-security world nonetheless.

I remember when the news of this case dropped to the IT-security world, who all wanted to take part in the hunt. It was a very fun time, we were all sitting at the edge of our seats waiting for the next update. I hope it was at least somewhat exciting for you too to read about, and thank you for reading this long post! If you liked it, please consider reblogging as it motivates me to write more. You may also like malware stuff I've written about before, such as Stuxnet or just plain evil malware that is a threat to our daily lives.

As always my inbox is open if you have any questions.

[studygroundin]

Effective time management is essential for students to achieve their academic goals. Here are some tips that can help students manage their time effectively and efficiently. #timemanagement #studytip #productivity #studentlife #timehack #studyhabits #prioritization #scheduling #timeblocking #goals

[jaimersndz12]

How to get MORE done daily as a REAL ESTATE AGENT - Time Hacks To Grow Y...

[reachatamit]

Have you ever wondered how successful people running multiple businesses, spending time with family, hitting the gym, and working on other initiatives. It’s not because they are superpowers, they have learned how to manage time effectively. Here some tips on how to manage your time. —— Follow (@reachatamit ) for more contents —— Like, share, comments —— 💵@reachatamit 💰@reachatamit 💵@reachatamit 💰@reachatamit 💵@reachatamit 💰@reachatamit ******************************************** #timemangement #timemanagementproblems #timemanagementtip #timemanagementhacks #timemanagementhabits #planyourtimewisely #planyourtime#timehacks #manageyourtime ******************************************** https://www.instagram.com/p/CKrTde4n6EK/?igshid=77cbw0g77433

[bloggingforbusymoms-blog]

Are you blogger who is bogged down with so many tasks to complete? Learn these 7 Genius Time Hacks for Bloggers! Grab your FREE copy today! #referral #timehacks #productivity #blogging #bloggers #savetime https://ig203.infusionsoft.com/go/thfb/barbaragreen

[theartofunique]

I limit the amount of television that I watch. If you commit to reading 20 minutes a day, you will finish 2 books per month. Read at least 4 books on one topic, amd you have just become an #expert What opportunities are you missing by wasting time? #efficiency #timemanagement #productivity #timehacks #theArtofubyRebecca https://www.instagram.com/p/B0VfJyLJCK_/?igshid=1l8ngv2vuuehi

[bestlaidplansvip]

Here is an example of listed routines laid out in a block schedule format. It is easier to refine when you have it written out!

[aiiaiiiyo]

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[sentientfuture]

Contacts: 👤 Georgiy/Lewis Context: 📖 See Progress Report #9 🕙 Georgiy and Lewis are undergraduate students who were kind enough to attend a few of my recent talks at UBC. 🎤 Upon reflecting on the usefulness of the talks, they collectively valued the ideas at 350 hours of their lives so far! 3️⃣5️⃣0️⃣⏳ I am SO grateful for the opportunity to sense, interpret, and respond to others' ambitions in a way that saves them immense amounts of time and helps them maximize their fulfilment in life. Thank you Georgiy and Lewis for your time and sharing with me how valuable our time together was, to you. 🕙 85.4% of the way to a "Fully Given Life" (598,546/700800 hours 🕙 68.3/80 years), for which my goal is to save/create my lifetime's worth of value in others' lives. 🕙 What would YOU do with 350 more hours in your life? 👇 . . . . . #time #success #sentient #sentientfuture #attention #attentioneconomy #life #fulfilment #timehack #regret #regretproof #consultant #years #months #gratitude #grateful #service #progress #amazing #professional #selfawareness #serve #lifetime #skills #student #value #values (at University of British Columbia Vancouver) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3p7fWqHFeA/?igshid=82oie2i86yap

[clixel]

Gitlog Automagical Timesheet Filler Outer Redux

I've been using variations on this script for several years to spit out my git commit log in a timesheet-friendly format:

https://blog.clixel.com/post/111391696763/daily-git-log-for-your-timesheet

I've now refined it to a li'l bash script that has a few extra tricks up its sleeve:

https://gist.github.com/natebeaty/b3edf108434a2d16cc600bd0686e92a8

You set your name in the script, drop it in your ~/bin dir and chmod +x it, then run gitlog from a repo dir with various options:

# Usage: # gitlog = last 8 hours of commits # gitlog 48 = last 48 hours of commits # gitlog 2018-12-20 = all commits on 12/20/2018 # gitlog yesterday = all commits since yesterday # gitlog 1 week ago = all commits since a week ago

Not the most elegant script, could be fancier—but I sure use the hell out of it as-is.

[runningkitten]

Mile 27 done ... 23 to go! These hills 😳 #50miler #ultrarunning #catalinaisland #catalina50miler #trailrunning #trai #salvi #sivarpride #salvadoreña #salvadorian #running #runcatalina #timehacks (at Little Harbor Campground)

[jaimersndz12]

Appointment Setting like a PRO - How to use CALENDLY - CALENDLY time hacks!

[mnaitodesigns]

I'm sure you've all felt at one time or another that there aren't enough hours in the day. Click here the link in my BIO to read about a few time hacks that just might help you get back some time on the clock, or paste this into your browser... http://mnaitodesigns.com/worst-enemy/ #timehacks #timemanagement #neverenoughhours

[ocdaniel]

Audible is an entrepreneur's time hack dream. Brain upgrades feel good.... I have a very difficult time sitting down and reading for hours at a time and audible has been insanely helpful in getting valuable information I probably would never have found. I still enjoy reading a good book but @audible_com is a tech advancement that every aspiring individual should add to their repertoire. It's also much safer to listen and drive than to read and drive 😜📚🤓 #audiblebooks #timehacks #readmore #lessexcuses #moreresults #wiseup #timeisprecious #protectitrelentlessly