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Linked – At Black Hat, mental health is new focus for cybersecurity workers
Good!!! “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…
Linked – A Feeding Frenzy to Deface WordPress Sites
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/ Image by Phil Oakley Follow these topics: Blogging, Links
Linked: Workplace suicides have risen to record high
I can imagine this would be a difficult situation for any workplace to deal with. It’s difficult anywhere. “Buried in a report last month by the Bureau of Labor of Statistics on occupational fatalities was this tragic fact: More people are killing themselves in the workplace than ever before. The number of such suicides for…
Linked: Employees’ email still drives most of the data loss at organizations
A good chunk of these breaches are not someone actually trying to steal data, but just someone trying to either make something more easily accessible outside of the office or taking information when they leave related to things like contact information, maybe some documents they’ve written themselves that they want to keep, etc.
It’s likely that these folks aren’t actively trying to commit some sort of corporate espionage, they just aren’t really thinking about what they do. It might just be that the once-per-year required video just isn’t enough to make it top of mind every day.
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Linked: Growing number of college students want future employers to include mental health benefits
Given everything we’ve seen in 2020, this probably shouldn’t surprise anyone. Young people who have been paying attention to what is happening to their peers as they head into the workplace, and their parents as they struggle with raising children while working from home, are interested in seeing more on the mental health front from…
