Linked – Dropbox hack leads to dumping of 68m user passwords on the internet
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Linked – Dropbox hack leads to dumping of 68m user passwords on the internet

Popular cloud storage firm Dropbox has been hacked, with over 68m users’ email addresses and passwords dumped on to the internet. The attack took place during 2012. At the time Dropbox reported a collection of user’s email addresses had been stolen. It did not report that passwords had been stolen as well. Go to Dropbox….

Linked – Do not accept a counter offer!!! Here is why
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Linked – Do not accept a counter offer!!! Here is why

Statistics show that if you accept a counter offer, there is a ninety percent chance you will be out of the job within six months. There are twelve reasons in the article, but do you need more than this one? Go read it anyway. 😉 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-accept-counter-offer-here-why-lushia-van-buuren

Linked – On The Dark Web, Medical Records Are A Hot Commodity
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Linked – On The Dark Web, Medical Records Are A Hot Commodity

As IBM’s Kuhn explained in a follow-up interview, these medical records can be leveraged for a wide variety of nefarious purposes. In some cases, it’s about stealing a person’s identity and billing them for a surgery or a prescription, and in others it’s about opening a new line of credit. Security researcher Avi Rubin told…

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Linked – College Won’t Train You for a Job, and That’s Just Fine

But a college education is not about job training—sorry, but it’s true. I’ve talked about the difference between college education and workforce development before—so let me just add one thought. How many jobs are there today that didn’t even exist 10 years ago? How do you train for a job that doesn’t exist? Someone should…

Linked – Your LinkedIn “Likes” May Be Hurting Your Career
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Linked – Your LinkedIn “Likes” May Be Hurting Your Career

Because your “likes” place content into your connections’ LinkedIn streams, you should think of it more like a “share” button. Whether intended or not, each “like” is a message that you believe this content will be of interest to others in your professional network. The advice in the article really applies to all social media…

Uber in Panama

While in Panama this week, I faced a bit of a challenge. I needed to get from the hotel to the office where we were training each day, but I don’t speak Spanish very well at all. I was a bit afraid of trying to explain where I wanted to go, as well as negotiating…