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“Hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability that allows them to execute commands and malicious scripts on Websites running File Manager, a WordPress plugin with more than 700,000 active installations, researchers said on Tuesday. Word of the attacks came a few hours after the security flaw was patched.”
You know what, I hadn’t thought about this, but it is true. How differently we view a request for a call or quick online chat than we did just a few months ago?
“If you think now is a bad time to network it’s because you think networking is about events. It’s not. It’s about connection and conversation. And so, while now is a terrible time for events, it’s a great time for connection and conversation. All the more so because you can more easily expand your geographic reach. Asking for a Zoom call or even a phone call would have seemed awkward with some folks just a few months ago. Now it’s just how we do things. Which instantly expands the pool of potential connections. “
OK fine, my near-weekly encouragement to see your employees as human beings first, and look out for them as human beings haven’t convinced you that burnout is a problem for your business. How about the fact that tired, burned-out employees eventually just check out and create a security nightmare?
Spent most of this morning doing another System Restore on a Compaq machine. There wasn’t any specific hardware failure or any indication as to what was happening, but it would just hang. It would go through all the normal NT Workstation boot processes, get to the start screen and never prompt me for a network…
This is something I’ve been concerned about for a long time, because links on social media are usually shortened using a service like bitly, or even WordPress, and you don’t really know where they go until you click on them. “A link, attached to a Twitter post put out by a robot account, promised a…
I first caught sight of their blog this morning. It’s still very much in the early stages, but it’s worth keeping an eye on if you use Summation at your firm, that’s for sure. It’s being written by Joshua Gilliland, Business Development Manager for CT Summation. It’d be really nice if they used it to…
“More than three-quarters of IT professionals have seen and kept secret potentially embarrassing information about their colleagues, according to new research conducted by AlienVault. The research, which surveyed the attitudes of more than 600 IT professionals into how they are treated, found that many are being called in to help get their colleagues out of…
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