While remote work is now more common, the convenience of staying connected with colleagues and clients from the comfort of your home has a set of security risks. It is essential to secure your remote work setup, protect your data, and keep the cyber criminals at bay. Remote Work Security The flexibility of remote work […]
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As an experiment, this list was generated by OpenAI.com’s ChatGPT.
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How does someone follow the path to into cybercrime? Is it naïve desire for employment or curiosity leading to an illicit side-gig?
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Friday the 13th falls on a Friday this month. Should you exercise even more cybersecurity awareness? I suggest no less than any other day. Hackers are just as likely to prey on superstitious beliefs as any other. This week the there is a chance for a remote worker or digital nomad to strike it big,
Remote Work Cybersecurity Report, 2022-05-13 Read More »
I have seen stunningly bad habits from IT professionals regarding access, authentication, and general computing security. My favorites include using administrator auto-logon without a password, passwords such as “8675309” or just “password”, freely shared domain-level administrative accounts, the cliché sticky-notes on a monitor, and not updating known vulnerable software because something bad might happen. Similarly,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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