If there were a theme for this week, it would be trojans, malware, and mischief. Evil lurks in unwanted packages and links. Those who live the digital nomad lifestyle, seeking remote work, means relying on email, paperless documentation, and emerging cryptocurrencies and the NFT market. We lean on our software tools for physical and financial …
Remote Work Cybersecurity Report, April 30, 2022 Read More »
This week is a hodge-podge rollup of warnings, threats, and vulnerabilities. There is something for everyone, bloggers, website administrators, and any remote-work-from-home-digital-nomad with a side-hustle. A funny thing about security vulnerabilities, defects and flaws may exist in products for years until revealed by any number of involved parties. They sit silent waiting for exploitation by …
Remote Work Cybersecurity Report, April 24, 2022 Read More »
From April 11th, 2022, to the 15th, the week ended with twenty-eight new “exploits in the wild”, as reported by CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Exploits ranged from weaknesses on current products in use to older unsupported and end-of-life devices. Here are ones I thought were particularly relevant to the remote working digital …
Security Vulnerabilities Affecting Remote Workers April 15th, 2022 Read More »
What is the worst time, place, and situation to interview for a job? Like everything in life, it depends. For me, interviewing for a job while pacing the halls of hospital waiting for my fiancée to recover from major cancer surgery was a distinct low point. I have and do work from odd places now …
There is an expectation by remote workers that internet and phone expenses should be reimbursed by the employer. Whether you work from home or are a digital nomad, there are good reasons you or your employer may want you to cover these costs. In my early days of telecommuting, my employer offered to reimburse my …