This week we will discuss how I felt on Tuesday morning when I opened my email after taking a 3-day weekend, I found myself in email-jail. I received over 250 messages in just 3 days.
So, what’s the best solution for working on all of these emails? It starts with 4 major steps. Whether your goal is getting to Inbox Zero, implementing an organized folder structure, or only responding to the emails that require immediate attention, creating a plan of action is the best way to fight the post-holiday weekend blues.More
Today’s article talks about Data Breaches. They are occurring more frequently and you have to be careful where you connect and how you connect. For example, on April 3, 2018, Panera Bread reported that customer information may have been vulnerable on the Panera Bread website for eight months. The data appeared to include records for any customer who signed up to order food via panerabread.com.MoreThis week’s newsletter will talk about what happened to my client who called “Microsoft”. This was the topic of the newsletter dated 4/5/18. The results were not a pretty sight, from the customer’s viewpoint. MoreThis week’s article talks about those emails that we receive that attract our attention to the content. It’s the subject line and the name of the sender that attract our attention.
For example, I recently received an email from Chase with the subject line of “Action Required”. The wording of the email is shown below – it looks real, but it’s NOT.More
On Tuesday late afternoon in the Eastern Time Zone, companies in Europe began contracting the latest version of the deadly Ransomware Virus. Code-named, Golden-Eye, this virus will infect the hard drive and then force a reboot of the computer. This then renders the hard drive unusable and requires a $300 BTC (BiTCoin) payment.
As of 7:00pm EDT on June 28th, 1 bitcoin is valued at $2,567.35 US Dollars. So, the current value of $300 in Bitcoins is $770,205.00 US Dollars.
Approximately, 45 businesses paid the ransom in the first 18 hours.More
