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Do we see others online as human?

The Verge

I’ve often wondered if part of the reason that there is so much venom spewed on Twitter and other social media is that it’s difficult to actually recognize pieces of text on a screen as being from real, feeling human beings. I became a member and then a sysop (system administrator) of one of these NYC groups, called the Women’s BBS (or WBBS).

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5 Emotions Used in Social Engineering Attacks [with Examples]

SecureWorld News

Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick learned early on to use emotion to manipulate and socially engineer his targets. At the time, his targets were typically sysadmins, and the social engineering started with a phone call. And hackers will continue to use emotion an an effective social engineering tool now and into the future, because it works.

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Fountainhead: My Cloudy Nerdy Playlist for 2012

Fountainhead

IT Administration Song – To the tune of “ A few of my favorite things ” The Computer Song – Dare you to memorize all of these acronyms. Happy System Administrator Day - (one of my fave Animes) Features “The SysAdmin Song” above. And this was just 2007. IT Financial Management. (4). Mobility.

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Fountainhead: Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Healthcare?

Fountainhead

Equally significant, the software is reducing system administration requirements—enabling Alliance IT professionals to focus on activities that add real value to the user community. applications, we would have had to hire more system administrators. IT Financial Management. (4). IT Transformation. (13). Marketing.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Ethical Hacking

ForAllSecure

A widely used social news and entertainment website built around user submitted content. When people feel threatened by it they want to throw the book at Yeah. I wrote a book with Kevin Mitnick, a convicted felon. But it's a means to an end of maybe some of the other ones right, the social, political, economic, whatever.

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New York: Cyberattack Is Twitter's Fault, Let's Increase Regulation

SecureWorld News

It was the summer cyberattack that had social media buzzing. A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. New York should increase cybersecurity regulations as a result, especially for social media companies. You could lose your data.'.

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Can the Digital Future Be Our Home?

Phil Windley

Summary: This post features three fantastic books from three great, but quite different, authors on the subject of Big Tech, surveillance capitalism, and what's to be done about it. I recently read Shoshana Zuboff's book on surveillance capitalism. Collecting data is becoming less socially acceptable. that we've come to enjoy.