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    What I’m Sharing (weekly)

    ByMike McBride February 9, 2020February 9, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

    How prepared is your IT department for the next legal hold Human error to blame for 9 in 10 UK data breaches last yea Smart Cities seem inevitable – but how smart is the cybersecurity protecting them? 3 facets of today’s switched-on social networker– People are getting smarter about social media usage, because we simply…

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    Linked: Why you can’t bank on backups to fight ransomware anymore

    ByMike McBride February 8, 2020February 7, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

    I’ve often given this advice myself, if you get hit with ransomware, you can recover if you have a decent backup plan that gets you an unlocked copy of the data that the ransomware encrypted. But, that was before the hackers changed their game plan, and now started taking data as well as encrypting your…

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    How Workplace Culture Creates Cybersecurity Failures

    ByMike McBride February 7, 2020February 7, 2020 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Here’s an interesting thought experiment. When you are in your office and receive an email from your boss, how long will it take before a follow-up email or phone call will occur if you don’t respond? If the answer to that question is a short time period, like say 10 minutes, you might actually be…

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    Hacking Crowd Sourced Technology

    ByMike McBride February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Reading Time: 3 minutes

    I have been concerned about the idea of trusting “crowd-sourced” data to influence how decisions are made with technology for awhile now. Mostly, it’s been with social media and “reporting” tools, which seem to me to be very easy to influence. For example, fake news reports, or harassment reports are an all-too-easy way to simply…

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    Linked: Imperiled information

    ByMike McBride February 3, 2020February 3, 2020 Reading Time: 3 minutes

    So two Harvard students wondered just how much information was out there that had simply, been dumped online and made publicly available by hackers. Then, they also wondered how much of this data could be combined to identify and track people across various websites. What they found, was worse than most of us imagine. “We…

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    What I’m Sharing (weekly)

    ByMike McBride February 2, 2020February 2, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

    A Great Set of Videos for Teaching Networking and Computer Hardware Concepts The Rise of the Video Surveillance Industrial Complex. The Tech Factor: Special eDiscovery Considerations for the Tech Sector E-Discovery Lessons From the Presidential Impeachment Proceedings Privacy & Cybersecurity Issues to Watch in 2020 How to Engage the Remote Workforce Centre for Addiction and…

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