Mike McBride on Tech, eDiscovery and Mental Health - Issue #24
So are IT folks successfully phished more often because they get targeted more often, or because they get a little cocky about their skills? Maybe both? It's interesting to consider as part of your security training though. That, and a whole bunch more links coming at you today. Enjoy your Friday!
Security and Privacy
Report: IT staff fail phishing tests more often than non-technical workers | IT PRO — www.itpro.co.uk Results show DevOps workers consistently rank among the most likely to fail a cyber security exercise
Data Privacy: Four Ways to Raise Employee Awareness | SAP Litmos Blog — www.litmos.com Organizations must be accountable and transparent in how they handle data. Let’s look at four simple ways to promote data privacy awareness with your employees.
PSA: Domestic Violence and Mobile Technology — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Do yourself, or anyone you know who is in an abusive relationship, male or female because men do get abused too despite the article's title, a favor and
Why are CEOs Increasingly Targeted by Hackers? — www.legallycyber.com The answer to the title question is “psychology and access.” Many forget that cyber-attacks are equal parts mental manipulation and digital execution. Cyber-criminals use psychological theories to force ransomware payments, namely “hubris syndrome” (ego), authority bias, and reptilian instincts. And with so many upper-level managers strictly reliant on third parties for cybersecurity guidance, cyber-criminals are aware of this lapse in knowledge and extort it. #cybersecurity #cyberleadership
How Phishing is Getting More Targeted — www.mikemcbrideonline.com After reading this article from Inc, I think there are really three things that hackers are taking advantage of, that they didn't used to, and these are
Cybersecurity Is Broken: How We Got Here & How to Start Fixing It — www.darkreading.com It's not just your imagination — malicious threats have exponentially increased organizational risk.
600K WordPress sites impacted by critical plugin RCE vulnerability — www.bleepingcomputer.com Essential Addons for Elementor, a popular WordPress plugin used in over a million sites, has been found to have a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in version 5.0.4 and older.
Mental Health
Mental Health in the Workplace Roundup — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Just a few links to things that relate to why workplaces should care, and what they should do about mental health issues: The Business Community Should
Mental Health in the ‘Next Normal’ of Work: 2022 Trends Forecast - HR Happy Hour — www.hrhappyhour.net You can listen to the latest shows here, or you can subscribe by searching for 'HR Happy Hour' on Apple Podcast, Stitcher Radio, Google Podcast, or your favorite podcast app
Mental health at work: Six reasons why managers and staff should be trained to support mental well-being — inews.co.uk A mentally fit workplace is good for business, says Shamira Graham, a director and CBT therapist at mental health company Onebright
Careers and the Workplace
Linked: Why hybrid work is emotionally exhausting — www.mikemcbrideonline.com As I said, I was surprised, at first. The more I read however the more clearly I saw a picture emerging, of leaders implementing hybrid as the appearance of flexibility that isn't really flexibility. How many of the stories shared are of people who are productive at home, but not allowed to simply be productive that way. Or of people who had any decision about how to schedule days in the office in a way that makes sense to them and what they need to do, taken away?
How powerful women in tech are pushing for new work policies to prevent burnout — www.fastcompany.com Women across the business world are advocating for a new normal that will actually work for them.
Linked: Actions of a good boss turning into a bad boss — www.mikemcbrideonline.com It's true. Our words and actions, especially when things are stressful, undermine what we think we are. You may think you're being a good boss, and maybe most of the time you are, but those days when you're stressed and short with people or the days you decide to not deal with a problem, become the days that define you in the eyes of the people who report to you. To them, you aren't just another person having a bad day. You are the person who controls their success at this company for better or worse, so it's not just you having a bad day, it's the organization having a bad day, directed at them.
How employers can ease strain of remote working | Canadian Occupational Safety — www.thesafetymag.com For some employees, working from home has had a detrimental effect on their mental health
The four-day workweek could be coming to your office sooner than you think | Financial Post — financialpost.com Younger managers are a lot more interested in the idea than the older leaders they are on track to replace
Social Media
Experts say anyone can fall prey to misinformation; there are tools to help — www.thedenverchannel.com Research shows that while 95% of people believe they’re adept at identifying fake news, only 1% of them use tools to verify the information they’re consuming.
Why Section 230 Actually Matters For the Internet as we Know It — www.mikemcbrideonline.com I found this article from The Hill to be rather enlightening on the subject of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Because it shows that most
Senate's New EARN IT Bill Will Make Child Exploitation Problem Worse, Not Better, And Still Attacks Encryption | Techdirt — www.techdirt.com You may recall the terrible and dangerous EARN IT Act from two years ago, which was a push by Senators Richard Blumenthal and Lindsey Graham to chip away more at Section 230 and to blame tech companies for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). When it...
Linked: Spotify’s Rogan problem is a cautionary tale for other tech platforms — www.mikemcbrideonline.com The article below points out that many of the platforms that exist today may find themselves in a similar situation and face a similar temptation. As shareholders start demanding more "growth" of a platform they are going to have a hard time providing that. There isn't a large group of people clamoring to get Twitter or Facebook accounts that don't currently have one. Eventually, they may be tempted to provide some kind of content exclusively on their platform. This pushes them into being publishing and media companies as opposed to tech companies. (We could argue that many of these platforms have started to dabble in being media companies but that haven't quite taken the step that Spotify did and buy exclusive rights to podcasts.)