“A new ransomware, Popcorn Time, gives users the option of infecting others in lieu of paying the ransom.”
I can’t imagine infecting someone else on purpose, but I learned long ago not to underestimate what people will do to others if it’ll benefit themselves. Don’t do this, just keep yourself safe and keep your data backed up elsewhere!
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/ransomware_meet.html
Yeah so this is maybe something to keep in mind: Last year security researchers told TechCrunch that malicious users could access and listen in to Zoom and Webex video meetings by cycling through different permutations of meeting IDs in bulk. The researchers said the flaw worked because many meetings were not protected by a passcode. Lawyers,…
Some of you may know, that there’s another Ignite Columbus event coming up on Jan 21, and I’ve already submitted a talk proposal. I wanted to take 5 minutes to talk about what I do for a living, at least in terms of trying to explain electronic discovery to people who are not in the…
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This is an interesting ruling. I think they’re on to something too. “In the case of Commonwealth v. Mangel, No. 2018 Pa. Super. 57 (Pa. Super. March 15, 2018 Musmanno, S.J. Ott, J., Shogan, J.)(Op. by Musmanno, J.), the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that social media posts are inadmissible in criminal cases unless prosecutors can…
I’ve mentioned a few times how easy it is for your privacy to be breached when using public wifi, especially on airplanes, or using the computer in the hotel business center, etc. Yet, for frequent business travelers, sometimes these things are kind of required. Another concern for those of us who travel for work of…
Having worked in all kinds of places, this makes total sense. So why do so many of us hate our open offices? The quiet chatter of colleagues and the gentle thrum of the HVAC should help us focus. The problem may be that, in our offices, we can’t stop ourselves from getting drawn into others’…