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“At this week’s Black Hat cybersecurity conference, panels about hacking automobiles and airplane WiFi are being interspersed with a new focus: mental health.”
I don’t work in cybersecurity, but I know people who do, and the long hours and stress many of them have to deal with is off the charts. This has probably been long-needed.
So now it’s Instagram ruining photography, eh? I can remember, like Matthew, when the same complaints were leveled against blogs and twitter. Heck I can remember when the professional photographer world was up in arms about how DSLR technology led to any MWAC (Mom With A Camera) thinking they could make money taking portraits, and…
This one in particular is one that I’ve seen in the training industry and it irks me to no end. People who can’t be bothered to prepare ahead of time to make sure they know exactly how the material and classroom exercises flow before teaching it the first time. “At a recent presentation training workshop…
Why it’s almost as if we should ask individuals what would help them, and within reason, provide that. After all, even within each age group, parents might prioritize something different than single employees, or those sharing an internet connection and space with a spouse or roommates also working from home might prioritize something else. Some may want to adhere to strict 9-5 hours so that they can spend the rest of their time on childcare or side-businesses, while others may value the ability to take a couple of hours during the day for schoolwork and then pick up work again in the evening.
We would do well to listen to what people need, talk about what we expect, and also understand what we are doing with our own actions.
This is the crux of the problem. Personal information is going to be breached, eventually. There is no 100% secure data. None. No business, government entity, non-profit, or any other place that collects and stores data is completely secure. The only true security for personal information is to not have it. To have not collected it or delete it once it’s no longer needed.
That is the radical re-think that is necessary. It’s also the complete opposite of everything these organizations have been taught and incentivized to do. If we are going to pass federal privacy laws, this should be the central theme.
Interesting, given my recent post about switching to Microsoft Security Essentials, one of our home PC’s was infected with a drive-by download of Antivirus Action. As much as I would have normally lectured my wife about using Internet Explorer, in this case she had to use it to access certain work-related tools, including getting full…
Yet again we see otherwise smart people doing something silly when it comes to computer security. There’s a lot of detail in the article below, but this quote is definitely something everyone should keep in mind: “There is a massive, massive gulf of understanding between otherwise competent professionals and the most basic tenets of computer…
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