Linked – Man Finds USB Drive With Vital Security Information on Heathrow Airport
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Linked – Man Finds USB Drive With Vital Security Information on Heathrow Airport

This is less than ideal, but honestly, I’ve worked in the industry long enough to totally see how it happens. Someone needed to take this somewhere, or send it to someone, and just copied it without giving a second thought to what would happen if it got lost. “Now we can add Heathrow Airport to…

Linked – Why You Can Focus in a Coffee Shop but Not in Your Open Office
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Linked – Why You Can Focus in a Coffee Shop but Not in Your Open Office

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’…

Linked – Depositions Instead of Searching for Responsive Email?
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Linked – Depositions Instead of Searching for Responsive Email?

Excuse me, what? “The two custodians purportedly had over one million emails, that were 300 gigabytes of data, which would cost $30,000 to export, search, and review. Id.” Good lord, doesn’t anyone enforce responsible deletion policies? Why are these two people hanging on to a million emails? Why, why, why? This situation shouldn’t even exist, let…

Linked – NHS could have avoided WannaCry hack with ‘basic IT security’, says report
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Linked – NHS could have avoided WannaCry hack with ‘basic IT security’, says report

This is often the case with malware – Yet the attack could the been prevented by basic IT practices, the report says. As early as 2014, the Department of Health and the Cabinet had written to NHS trusts, saying it was essential they had “robust plans” to migrate away from old software. In March and…

Linked – FAA Suggests Banning Laptops From Checked Luggage
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Linked – FAA Suggests Banning Laptops From Checked Luggage

This will make for some interesting logistics problems for highly technical businesses, and even for someone like a professional photographer with extra camera bodies/batteries in a checked bag. I didn’t often check a laptop, but I know plenty of people who had to, because they were carrying multiple machines to a work site, or doing…

Mailchimp Goes Against Email Best Practices with Move to Single Opt-in

Mailchimp Goes Against Email Best Practices with Move to Single Opt-in

I was surprised to get an email from Mailchimp today that seemed to go against everything email marketing should be: Starting October 31, single opt-in will become the default setting for all MailChimp hosted, embedded, and pop-up signup forms. This change will impact all MailChimp users, so here’s everything you need to know: All MailChimp signup…