Meanwhile in Argentina during a lockdown:
Source - El Canciller (media outlet) https://twitter.com/elcancillercom/status/1241063277171478539
Context:
New home workers, don’t forget that your employer has a duty of care under health and safety legislation to provide you with a safe working environment. Be it by providing appropriate computer equipment, desk, chair, etc.
Granted it may be harder for them to do this at the moment (huge surge in homeworkers overtaking supplies at hand), but if you don’t ask, you don’t get!
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Beware of phishing.
“Now is the time, when there’s chaos and there’s fear and people are worried about their family [and] they’re not in the office … [that] they’re going to strike,” Kurtz said. “As these remote users get up and running with their own stacks, whether it’s Zoom or Slack, they’re going to need protection like Crowdstrike, and we’re there for them.”
With communities, the government and corporations adjusting to a new world disrupted by the virus pandemic, Crowdstrike has dropped surge costs as clients lean heavily on remote work services, Kurtz added.
“We’ll deal with that after we get through this crisis,” he said. “We view ourselves as a partner, not just a vendor.”
The comments come one day after Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity company that offers threat intelligence and cyberattack response services, reported a top- and bottom-line beat in its January quarter. Total revenue grew 89% year-over-year to $152 million, powered by 99% growth in its subscription revenue, which came in at $436 million.
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Cybersecurity is a “basic need in the hierarchy of what corporations need. It’s like shelter,” Kurtz said. “When you have a cloud-based platform like us, we’re solving big problems, stopping breaches, consolidating spend and cost.”
Furthermore, Broadcom’s $10.7 billion acquisition of Symantec has been a plus for Crowdstrike, Kurtz added. Crowdstrike believes it has helped to expand its client base.
…Crowdstrike shares surged 17% to $49.01 in Friday’s session.
Focus 
“It’s really all about establishing good habits and not letting yourself get distracted. FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS!” Leigh Anne Varney, a public relations maven who has worked at home for 20 years, said in an email. In an ironic twist, she recently started as a senior account supervisor with Landis Communications, where she had started going into the office, but she is now back working at home because of the Bay Area’s shelter-in-place mandate.
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“Many remote workers feel more prepared and ready for a workday by waking up at the same time each day, having a morning routine of some sort (getting the family out the door, a quick walk with the dog, grabbing a coffee) and being at their desk at a fairly predictable time for them,” write the authors in the Holloway guide. But obviously, right now, it’s not always possible to get your family out the door, and many are also trying to juggle home schooling or keeping their kids busy or entertained.
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Among her routines, says Varney, is to take a brief lunch break away from your desk. “I try to not eat at the desk so I have some sense of scenery change for 30 minutes, including taking a break from emails and the phone, and, I don’t know, reading a book that has nothing to do with work for 30 minutes,” she said. Others also suggest taking a walk or doing some brief exercises, if you can, when you have breaks between calls, video chats, to get out of your chair and move around.
Everybody needs to practise constantly to get good at what they do:
From 5:00
From 3:00 ish:
There are some gems and I’m not a Coldplay fan.
Stay well everyone.
Basic internet hygiene when WFH
It’s not just hospitals that are being more threatened in the interconnected world right now.
A major fintech in the UK is in the news during the year it may want to be put for a (re)sale:
Credit Karma - another fintech that does credit checks and taxes for you - was recently sold to Intuit for billions. It was backed by many known VCs and PE firms such as Tiger Global. You should read this @Ian - is this post legit?
https://blog.12security.com/two-minutes-to-midnight/
Please be aware that scams, phishing, malware, etc are on the rise. Best not open every strange attachment and link sent over messaging apps.
Also let your employees, relatives and friends know about basic hygiene. Make sure your infra and security engineers are always learning and are up to date.
Online scams that are tailored to major news events have been around for more than a decade. Normally, however, they tend to morph relatively quickly from one breaking event to another. With the coronavirus commanding an almost unprecedented amount of coverage around the world, these latest campaigns have been nothing short of a flurry of attacks that show no signs of slowing down.
Readers should be highly skeptical of emails and websites that purport to provide information or goods related to the ongoing pandemic. The key fact to confirm is the primary source of those communications. Readers should never take source claims at face value…
“With a large part of the workforce moving to working from home and many schools going to online learning during the pandemic, expect to see a rise in phishing and malware attacks,” Lamar Bailey, senior director of security research at cybersecurity firm Tripwire Inc., told SiliconANGLE. “It is a great time for schools and employers to remind their employees and students of basic internet hygiene to go along with the increased focus on personal hygiene. Wash your hands and don’t click on suspicious links.”
An ongoing phishing campaign delivering emails posing as official messages from the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) is actively spreading HawkEye malware payloads onto the devices of unsuspecting victims.
This spam campaign started today according to researchers at IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence who spotted it and it has already delivered several waves of spam emails attempting to pass as being delivered by WHO.
“HawkEye is designed to steal information from infected devices, but it can also be used as a loader, leveraging its botnets to fetch other malware into the device as a service for third-party cybercrime actors,” IBM X-Force’s research team previously said.
Now, let’s cheer up:
Starting to get super real for me. 5 people off work tomorrow. 2 that work a few desks down and 3 from manufacturing.
We’ve been asked to turn up in scruffs in case we have to back up the factory.
#cough
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Cross post:
Switch to another platform.
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Will you be able to work from home at all? Or are they putting you on leave?
Na we don’t have anything capable of working from home. Laptop that had the power we need would be about 3k each.
Likely we’ll be furloughed.
That’s a good time to push for use of cloud computing in your organisation 
We’ve just moved to serverless. We can VPN onto our kits and do stuff but it’s painfully slow. The minute we try and engineer anything it just gives up.
What would it cost to replicate 12 i9’s, with 32gb of RAM, Solid States and at least a 4gb graphics card?
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Thanks.
Doesn’t look like there’s coverage in our region? North East.
the regions you are looking at are simply the references to the Azure DC locations. Depending on your own security constraints it does not necessarily need to be in your country. If you are referring to the 2 UK locations… it doesn’t matter which one you use. The second one will only be used for resilience if you are looking for High-Availability.
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