HelpNetSecurity.com reported that “Phishers are impersonating companies’ IT support team and sending fake VPN configuration change notifications in the hopes that remote employees may be tricked into providing their Office 365 login credentials.” The June 4, 2020 report entitled “Office 365 users: Beware of fake company emails delivering…
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CIO.com reported that “It’s legendary: A CIO promotes his best developer or IT pro into a management role, losing an excellent tech worker and gaining a bad manager.” The May 29, 2020 report entitled “10 steps to becoming a horrible IT boss” included in Step 8b: “For…
Net Neutrality may be back on the table since Pew Research reported that “As most schools around the nation have closed and classes and assignments have shifted online, some policymakers have raised concerns about how less digitally connected students will fare in this new learning environment.” The April 30, 2020…
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The Sloan Review at MIT reported that “Before COVID-19, most people had some degree of apprehension about robots and artificial intelligence…Those worries appear to have been set aside since the onset of the pandemic as AI-infused technologies have been employed to mitigate the spread of the virus.” The May 12, …
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My good friend Kevin Christ (at Concentre Group) is the co-author of the CIO article that started out “Offshore service providers are grappling with COVID-19’s impacts, limiting their ability to meet obligations.” The May 6, 2020 article entitled “A 7-point blueprint for assessing your offshore IT risk exposure…
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In August 2019 I blogged that “50% of All Businesses Have Shadow IT – So How Are You Impacted?” and now with Covid-19 locking everyone at home Computerworld reported “As workers were forced home due to the COVID-19 crisis, the potential for shadow IT went with them to…
Darkreading reported that “One issue that may be overlooked is that many cyber liability insurance policies make a distinction between computer hardware owned by the insured company and computer hardware or other devices owned by company employees. This distinction becomes critical as the insuring agreements may limit or exclude coverage …
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN) announced that “One of the new interactive dashboards provides data on cross-border complaints submitted by consumers to econsumer.gov [a site created in 2001 by members of the ICPEN] to gather and share consumer complaints about international…
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Darkreading.com reported that Adam Darrah (Vigilante’s director of intelligence) said that “We think the hacks are probably attempts to undermine public confidence in government at a time of universal unease due to the COVID-19 pandemic…The United States is a highly desirable target, and it would make sense that hacktivists would…
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Darkreading.com reported that “research showed that home networks were 3.5 times more likely than corporate networks to have at least one malware family — and 7.5 times more likely to have five or more distinct types of malware.” The April 14, 2020 article entitled “Insecure Home Office Networks Heighten …
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