Josh packs so much “right” into this little paragraph. “Attorneys should ask their clients whether they have used personal email to conduct business. Another topic is whether a person has a Gmail account used for Google Drive that is connected to their business. Asking these questions can avoid unpleasant surprises that can turn into a…
I have to thank my wife for finding this site the other night when she was Googling for some Excel tutorials. It’s done by the Goodwill Community Foundation and it not only has tutorials on tech topics like Excel, Gmail, and Internet Safety, but they also cover a range of topics involved with job searching,…
This caught my interest – Let’s penalize cold emails. If a recipient chooses, “I never signed up for this mailing list,” I think MailChimp and other email providers should penalize the sender, too. Maybe not with the voracity they penalize under the “this is spam” response, but if you are cold emailing (sending emails to…
Interestingly enough, I had planned to write about this topic with a look at automation, specifically self-driving cars and trucks, but then I saw something else in the news online and thought, “yeah, that too!”. The bit of news I saw was about another “adult” dating site getting hacked and something like 300 million user…
“The e-mail saying that your Gmail account may have been compromised conveniently contains a link or button for you to click on to remedy the problem. Slow down and think. According to an Ars Technica story, this is exactly how the breaches of the Democratic National Committee and the personal e-mail breaches of former Secretary…
An unnamed US intelligence official was quoted by NBC News as calling the leak of contractor Ian Mellul’s e-mails “the most damaging compromise of the security of the president of the United States that I’ve seen in decades”—one caused by the use of an outside personal e-mail account for government business. The e-mails included full…