Given the wide range of personal information exposed, the possibility of attackers obtaining plaintext passwords is only one of the major concerns stemming from the breach. Yahoo users should be wary of communications that may use some of the compromised data to trick them into clicking on links, divulging information, or taking other actions.
Glad that I recently changed my Yahoo/Flickr password, but there are a lot of various things that are Yahoo properties, so I can’t help but wonder how many areas were affected. Nothing is safe.
I discovered another way to use OneNote today. I created a section titled “Registry Hacks” and named each page as a brief desription of what that key accomplishes. For example, I needed to find these today, so I Googled to find them, copied the text and added each as a new page in OneNote, so…
I had an early morning flight out of Panama, to Miami and then connecting to come back across the US to Oregon. So it was definitely going to be a long day. As we were wrapping up class on Thursday, my conversations turned to my trip home, and my students assured me that I wanted…
This is an interesting example to consider, professionally and personally. He carved out time most evenings to write cards and thank-you notes. He wrote so many that they fill a 700-page book, “All the Best, George Bush,” which serves as his memoir. Bush found the idea of writing about himself distasteful. Modesty was ingrained in…
“I want to know what breaches like this mean to me. Me personally. Me professionally. I’ve been using Yahoo since 1999. And AOL before that. And Prodigy before that. And the Europa BBS service from my Commodore64 in 1988 before that. That’s a long history on the Internet and its predecessors. What should I do…
Training to meet the skills gap in your workforce is a never-ending challenge. This is not a one-time set it and forget it type of task. It is an ongoing task that will always need updating and tweaking. Have you planned for keeping everyone on your team up to date and continuing to develop the new skills you’ll need year after year?
A gap doesn’t get created overnight, and it won’t get fixed overnight. Even if it did, a few days later you’ll have another gap. The world changes every day. Don’t assume your people can change with it without any assistance from you.
OK all you Mac folks out there. I have a question. In the Windows world, I can use the command line utility Robocopy to copy the contents of a folder to a USB drive, and have it keep the timestamps and other file attributes. Is there a similar way to do that on a Mac,…
