Shared Links (weekly) March 8, 2026
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This isn’t a great statement on the security of sensitive data, and the last sentence isn’t a great statement in terms of the litigation readiness of organizations either. “Polling a little over a thousand IT professionals around the world, the survey found that 76 percent had reported that their companies had increased investments in perimeter…
“Our psychology of e-mail doesn’t match the reality. We treat them as ephemeral, even though they’re not. And the archival nature of e-mail — or text messages, or Twitter chats, or Facebook conversations — isn’t salient.” It’s so easy to fire off an email, comment, or tweet, without thinking about someone reading it years later….
US-CERT (U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team) based its alert on news Thursday from Trend Micro’s TippingPoint group, which said it had been told by Apple that QuickTime on Windows had been deprecated, or dropped from support, meaning no future security updates will be issued and development has been halted. Lose it, it has vulnerabilities and…
The Ongoing Battle of David and Goliath in the Legal Profession tags: LitSupport MM 12 of the Most Useful Apps and Services for 2013 tags: Tech MM Ways to Protect Your Computer from Hackers While Traveling tags: Travel Security MM Why Using a Public Wi-Fi Network Can Be Dangerous, Even When Accessing Encrypted Websites tags: MM…
And yet, despite this, I see organizations holding on to information for decades, “just in case” they might need it. “From a cybersecurity perspective, the more personal information a company maintains, the more information it has to lose. Consequently, the more information a company loses, the higher the financial and reputational costs.” Oh, and the…
Cross-posted from my Child Abuse Survivor site, because the questions about social media and personal branding are relevant here as well. Honestly, I’m torn on this subject and not sure what the correct approach is. As someone who connects with people as part of my professional networking through social media and my own blogs,…