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Linked – How to Listen When You Disagree: A Lesson from the Republican National Convention

Our Facebook feeds are littered with articles, posts, and images from all types of people. For some of us, this is difficult to handle, so we edit out the ones we disagree with until our feed looks more like an echo board our of own thoughts.If we’re not careful, we’ll treat people this way. Editing out the…

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Linked – Putin’s Internet Trolls Are Stoking The Vitriolic Fire By Posing As Trump Supporters

“What he uncovered was a global, not-at-all subtle disinformation network of well-constructed hoaxes, heavily-produced YouTube videos, fake Wikipedia entries, and tens of thousands of bogus social media accounts — many of which were designed to pollute the global discourse pool here in the States. The report went so far as to highlight one disinformation effort…

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Linked – eDiscovery CEO Hit With Heavy eDiscovery Sanctions

“In May 2014, Shawe and Elting filed four lawsuits against each other. Shawe distributed a litigation hold notice, which applied to text messages and laptop data. However, he failed to image or preserve his own iPhone or laptop per the litigation hold, and deleted 19,000 files from the laptop before it was imaged pursuant to…

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Linked – How I made LastPass give me all your passwords

Should we stop using password managers? No. They are still much better than the alternative (password reuse). Although, taking a second to disable autofill functionality is a good move because this isn’t the first autofill bug we’ve seen, and I doubt it will be the last. Also, this would not work if multi factor authentication…

Linked – Say Farewell to SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication?
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Linked – Say Farewell to SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication?

The U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) says in a new draft of its Digital Authentication Guideline that SMS-based two-factor authentication should not be used due to security concerns. “[Out of band verification] using SMS is deprecated, and will no longer be allowed in future releases of this guidance,” the documents reads. As…

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Linked – 8 Free Computer Forensics Training Resources for IT Pros (and anyone else)

Because if you’ve ever wanted to learn a bit about forensics, you already know free information is hard to find. This article not only has a link to some free training, but also to forensic tools that you can use. http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/8-free-computer-forensics-training-resources-it-pros-and-anyone-else.htm