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  • Twitter Hackers Were Smart, But Hardly Genius

    Smart enough to get in, not smart enough to cover their tracks when getting paid. That doesn’t seem so smart. Which goes to show, that security around Twitter could have been a lot better, and people who work there maybe should have been a little less careless. That doesn’t bode well for the rest of us when even a big tech company can’t get this right. How many of us have people on staff who might fall for this kind of phone-based attack?

    What should we think of the complicated, super-smart hackers who also manage to be so easily identifiable? Should we accept that the hardest thing about any conspiracy, and this goes for all the conspiracy theories out there, is making sure one person doesn’t do something stupid and give it all away? That. actually, is nearly impossible, and is the one thing that makes most theories unbelievable to me. This hack proves to be a perfect example.

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    What I’m Sharing (weekly) Aug 2, 2020

    Flexibility and transparency: The keys to good remote leadership

    Three Key Tips to Keep in Mind When Leveraging Corporate G Suite for eDiscovery

    Five Strategies for Building Relationships Remotely

    Mothers Are Paying the Price at Work for Coronavirus
    -“Preventing a mass exodus of mothers from the workforce must be a priority.”

    What Does Private Browsing Do? Less Than You Probably Think

    Face masks are breaking facial recognition algorithms, says new government study
    – Aww that’s a shame. Not.

    The Biggest Lesson from the Twitter Breach
    – “Focus on the vulnerability of humans”

    The Sedona Conference Commentary on Law Firm Data Security Released

    The End of Life Hacking
    – If you were around in the early days of blogging, this may make you laugh, or cringe. Maybe both.

    Microsoft told employees to work from home. One consequence was brutal

    – The lesson, management and employees need to create boundaries around when you’re working, and when you’re NOT.

    WORK from home or don’t work at all: telecommuting in the age of COVID-19

    Business as Unusual? Eighteen Observations on eDiscovery Business Confidence in the Summer of 2020

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    Do You Know Any Know-It-Alls?

    Sarah Anderson lays out one area where being a “know-it-all” is actually pretty dangerous. Unfortunately, many cybersecurity professionals either refuse or fail to accept the basic premise that he/she does not and cannot know everything. This failure or refusal is dangerous as cybersecurity requires a constant education and re-education from uncommon sources – news, Twitter,…

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    Linked: Twitter to ask some users to click link to article before retweeting

    I can get behind this, sharing without reading is a huge problem, so why not nudge people to read it before they share it? “Twitter Inc. will prompt some users to click links to other websites before retweeting them, part of an effort to discourage the spread of misinformation and foster more thoughtful communication on…

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    Linked: What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride

    So, the wrong guy got tracked down, publicly shamed, threatened and harassed, all in the name of “justice”? As for the woman who shared his home address: She deleted it and posted an apology, writing that in all of her eagerness to see justice served, she was swept up in the mob that so gleefully…