Pass along these ultra simple tips and make things better for everyone. Your IT guys will love you!
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Arguing could be a very good thing — perhaps the key to their success — if they could train people to do it in a healthy way.
Research tells us that cognitive diversity makes a group smarter. Two heads are, indeed, better than one, and many heads are even better, especially when everyone is willing to share their expertise and opinions.
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After blockchain and Artificial Intelligence, it’s time to become a cybersecurity expert. Cybersecurity is not an easy concept, but it can be understood as a peacekeeper against digital world’s growing threats. The startups in the Cyber@StationF program led by Thales help us get some answers to questions about this mysterious world that you didn’t even think of asking.
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How did I find out? Well I got an email saying that some malicious software had been downloaded on my computer and had obtained some scandalous information about me. The email threatened to release the information they captured if I did not pay them with Bitcoin.
Apparently this is a fairly common email scam that goes around. …
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This guide will teach you how to recognize secure websites you can trust and how to spot fake ones run by fraudsters looking to scam you.
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What is identity theft? It is simply when someone uses your identity as their own. But there’s nothing simple at all about the damage left in their wake. There are close to 10 different types of identity theft, which we’ll detail below. …
I will dig into the identity theft basics, including how it happens, some of the most common types of identity theft, and what you can do to protect yourself.
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As you use your computer and browse the Web, you may occasionally run into infection warnings that appear to be legitimate but aren’t. These anti-malware warning messages — appropriately called “scareware” — are designed to scare you into installing fake anti-malware programs that are actually malware in disguise.
So how can you tell between real and fake warning messages? It can be tough, but as long as you stay calm and take your time, there are a few signs you can look for that will help you distinguish between the two.
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“Life is simple,” wrote Confucius, “but we insist on making it complicated.”
Good advice … and timely.
In fact, Retired Navy SEAL officer and “Extreme Ownership” co-author Jocko Willink recently identified simplicity as the key to not just to effective leadership, but success itself.
The trouble is that we’re terrible at simplicity.
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Experts caution that the stream of news about such breaches can set a new normal and instill a sense of fatalism — and complacency — in consumers.
Anthony Vance, an associate professor and director of the Center for Cybersecurity at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, said last year’s breach of information held by the credit reporting company Equifax, which affected 145 million Americans, was “a game-changer.”
The information gleaned could be used to fraudulently open new credit accounts, he said, adding, “That should give even the most jaded American consumer pause and prompt them to do something.”
But evidence suggests that high-profile breaches don’t typically change consumers’ behavior.
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A social engineering attack is an orchestrated campaign against employees at either a variety of companies or one high valued business using a variety of digital, in-person or over the phone techniques to steal intellectual property, credentials or money.
Hackers prefer social engineering because it’s much easier to hack a human than a business. Social engineering attacks allow the hacker to combine multiple efforts and even cover their tracks, because they can use the human to take money or install malware under their persona.
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One of the solution I’d implement would be: when ever we hover over the link its should show you to which link it is pointing or redirecting to and this solution needs to be implemented by all email providers like Google’s Gmail, Microsoft’s Outlook etc. This will prevent the user from exposing their personal information to hackers.
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Part of the problem is that we were never given any training on email. We were just given an email address and no operating instructions. Can you imagine the result of giving people the keys to a car, without telling them how it works or how to drive responsibly? We’d all end up driving on the wrong side of the road and honking at green lights.
That’s what we are doing with email.
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From product design to LinkedIn strategies, Google has a lot to teach executives and entrepreneurs.
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You may have heard, “Don’t sweat the small stuff. That might be true in some aspects of life — but over email, sweating the small stuff is exactly what you should be doing.
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If you’re a leader, before you issue instructions or hand out tasks, take the time to think through what you actually want to achieve.
What is the intent behind the work you want done? What is the outcome you desire? Does it matter how your team attacks it?
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Learning to say “no” is an ongoing challenge, but it’s a skill you can refine every day.
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It takes a little grunt work at the beginning, but after the initial setup, you can automatically add new contacts to your list as they come. But first, let’s compile your existing contacts into one, centralized location.
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If you use an iPhone or iPad, you owe it to yourself to be able to get the most out of your hardware, and the best way to do that is to know how to get the most of iOS 11.
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Most people I know who suffer from high levels of burnout, stress, and anxiety have one thing in common… They compare themselves forwards instead of backwards. What do I mean by this?
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The first foundational quality one must have to achieve success is having guts. It can be extremely intimidating to start a business, and if you lack the courage to face your fears and get started then success will not materialize on any level.
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We receive an average of 94 business emails every day and devote almost one-third of our time at work to email management. Bottom line: the benefits of email often come at the expense of productivity.
To reclaim your time, automate your inbox. Here are the tips, tools, and templates…
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As a new manager, it’s also critical to share the WHY behind your vision, priorities, expectations, feedback, or requests. Don’t dilute your message. Instead, make it more powerful by sharing more about the context.
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Your ability to distinguish urgent and important tasks has a lot to do with your success. Peter Drucker once said, “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
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How do you separate the urgent tasks from your truly important work, knowing all the rest are distractions?
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