If you haven’t updated your WordPress install to 4.7.2, you might want to do that, assuming that it hasn’t already been hacked and defaced. Seems like that’s only a matter of time.
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/02/rest-api-exploit-feeding-frenzy-deface-wordpress-sites/
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Courtesy of John Robb comes this article about Intel putting in some security measures in their new chips, due next year. John’s response: “Intel to include copy protection functionality in new chips. I personally won’t ever buy a chip with type of stuff on it. Unless there is an alternative, my aggressive upgrade cycle has…
This is something that many of us older folks don’t get, but we should be thinking about much more. I think many of us who work in the technology, legal, or eDiscovery sectors can lose sight of how demanding careers in these industries are. We are quick to scoff at the idea that we should maybe figure out how to make them a little less demanding, or at least more friendly for diverse candidates who can’t simply work all night, or be on call 24 hours a day for our clients because that’s just the way it’s done in our industry. We tend to think that because all of the jobs in the industry are like that, we don’t have to worry about competitors offering something else to our employees.
We are not considering how many people we drive out of the industry completely, especially young people. There is a staffing shortage in these industries, and the companies struggling to find enough talent are not losing out to some other mysterious company in the industry who can pick and choose, we’re all in the same boat because the boat is leaking people every single day. People are making the choice to do something else because what we offer isn’t cutting it.
Everybody Bitches About Ediscovery, But Nobody Does Anything – NOT! tags: LitSupport MM Telling Stories – Even in Technology | Leading Geeks tags: Management Tech MM Finding a Balance Between Cyber Security and Employee Efficiency tags: Tech Security MM Mining for eDiscovery Sanctions Wow, it’s 2013 people. How can this sort of thing still happen? tags:…
Whatever you choose to do, though, the next step needs to be doing everything possible to make sure it doesn’t happen again instead of breathing a sigh of relief that you got your data back and continuing business as usual. That would seem to be the common mistake here.
Don’t make that mistake.
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