The Risks – Know Them – Avoid Them Erin Bromage. Must-read.
Sometimes it takes a few bad ideas to come up with a good one.
Sometimes it takes a few bad ideas to come up with a good one.
MakeUseOf: “How many times have you searched Google
only to get a bunch of incorrect or unrelated search results that you
wish you could filter out? Well, with a few search shortcuts, you can
narrow down your search results and always get the exact results you’re
looking for…” via Deepblog.com
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Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues May 10, 2020
– Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home,
work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few.
On a weekly basis Pete Weiss
highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly
complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and
diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational
awareness. Four highlights from this week:
Contact-Tracing Apps in the United States; Employment-Related Identity
Fraud: Improved Collaboration and Other Actions Would Help IRS and SSA
Address Risks; How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home; and
Report: “We Chat, They Watch: and How International Users Unwittingly
Build up WeChat’s Chinese Censorship Apparatus.“
'We back our Aussie mates': US Congress members slam China threats
‘This is payback’: China threatens to hit Australia with tariffs amid souring relations
'A hell of a ride': The COVID-19 toll on the accounting profession
Vanity Fair – The future of jobs after the pandemic is a blurry mix of work, life, pajamas, and Zoom. “…. While working remotely confers some mental-health and other benefits, the “job” as we know it might never be the same. Conferences, in-person meetings, and even handshakes might be deemed not worth the risk of infection. What might emerge is a future in which results-oriented introverts prevail while those who thrive on face-to-face interactions and office politics fumble. In the post-pandemic workplace, nerds may get their revenge…”
The company said those who want to return to the office won’t likely do so until at least September and reopening will be ‘careful’
The Results Are In for the Sharing Economy. They Are Ugly New York Times
Uber Loses $2.9 Billion, Offloads Bike and Scooter Business TechXplore. Ha! We said bikes and scooters were silly.
Flynn and the Anatomy of a Political Narrative National Review
WSJ.com:
“Many office workers have become used to widespread security cameras
and keycards that register entries and exits. After the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks, buildings installed enhanced security measures,
including logging in visitors and X-raying briefcases. But the arrival of Covid-19 is taking surveillance to a higher level,
with some employers planning to track movements and gather personal
information like never before in Western democracies. It marks a new
chapter in the debate over privacy, and the trade-offs people are
willing to make for safety…” [Note – this is the link to a more extensive article with the same title for online WSJ subscribers.]
ATO warns Aussies against JobKeeper phone scam
Yahoo Finance Australia (blog)
The Australian Taxation Office has warned Australians against scammers pretending to be from the ATO and requesting bank account details.