Category Archives: General
Phishing: An Overview and Prevention Strategies
Phishing is a type of cyberattack that aims to deceive users into disclosing their personal or financial information, such as passwords, bank account details, or credit card numbers. Phishing typically involves sending fraudulent emails, texts, or phone calls impersonating a legitimate organization, such as a bank, an employer, or a government agency. The objective of phishing is to induce users to click on a malicious link, open an infected attachment, or provide their sensitive data to the attacker. Continue reading
Toxic Management Culture
A toxic management culture is a set of behaviors, attitudes, and values that create a negative and harmful work environment for employees. Toxic managers are often abusive, manipulative, dishonest, unethical, incompetent, or indifferent to the well-being of their subordinates. They … Continue reading
Faster Horses
This article at Ars Technica about Microsoft’s continued failure in emerging non-Windows-centric markets is a prime illustration of a pattern that should seem familiar to anyone who has followed the technology business for any length of time. A company is … Continue reading
Mediocrity Rules or “Why does enterprise software suck?”
As our society becomes more and more digital, more connected, and all of us become more comfortable with technology, the stark contrast that we see between our digital personal lives and the wasteland that we encounter at work is growing. … Continue reading
Teaching Developers to Lie
I have been at this for over twenty-five years and it amazes me that the same dysfunctional interactions between management and development teams continues to play itself out over and over again wherever I go. It never fails. Management asks … Continue reading