Attempts to understand and manage the mechanisms at work in floodplains have been made for at least six millennia. In the United States, the Association of State Floodplain Managers works to promote education, policies, and activities that mitigate current and future losses, costs, and human suffering caused by flooding and to protect the natural and beneficial functions of floodplains - all without causing adverse impacts. A portfolio of best practice examples for disaster mitigation in the United States is available from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Clean-up activities following floods often pose hazards to workers and volunteers involved in the effort. Potential dangers include electrical hazards, carbon monoxide exposure, musculoskeletal hazards, heat or cold stress, motor vehicle-related dangers, fire, drowning, and exposure to hazardous materials. Because flooded disaster sites are unstable, clean-up workers might encounter sharp jagged debris, biological hazards in the flood water, exposed electrical lines, blood or other body fluids, and animal and human remains. In planning for and reacting to flood disasters, managers provide workers with hard hats, goggles, heavy work gloves, life jackets, and watertight boots with steel toes and insoles.

Its instructions are that it should pretend to be interested in whatever the spammer is selling, and do whatever it can to waste their time. This includes trying to set up meetings, pretending to have issues with its computer, insist that payment details are wrong, or that it has sent the payment, and whatever else it can conceive of. The result is as entertaining as ever. Why not add ChatGPT to Spamnesty? 1. As I said above, most spam is bots, and ChatGPT would compose long, detailed, and thoughtful replies to spam, only to receive a canned message back. Computer program or not, I couldn’t do this to something that can think more coherently than me. 1) would be too much for me to pay. If we’re going to waste spammers’ time and entertain ourselves at the same time, there needs to be a manual curation step. There needs to be someone at least glancing at the emails, making sure that they’re worth responding to.

Since many email security tools rely on scanning text and URLs to detect malicious or suspicious emails, a threat actor can simply replace all of the text content with an image that includes a malicious URL within a QR code. What Are QR Codes? A QR code (short for "Quick Response" code) is a type of two-dimensional barcode that can be read by an imaging device such as a camera. QR codes are used to quickly provide access to a given URL without the end-user needing to type the URL in manually. While this can be convenient, threat actors can use QR codes to send their victims to a malicious URL. Legitimate QR codes can also be covered by a sticker with a QR code that links to a malicious URL. Making a QR code is as simple as placing the desired destination URL into a QR code generator, then placing the generator QR code anywhere an end-user can scan it with their phone.

However, this approach demonstrates infrastructure studies’ alignment within STS, where a large body of work investigates influence between early and subsequent evolutions of technologies (e.g. Pinch and Bijker 1987; Flichy 2007). Since this dissertation examines IndieWeb using archival data spanning 2011-2019, a historically oriented view of technology is valuable for considering how IndieWeb relates to earlier and contemporary features of the Internet, and the extent to which IndieWeb’s standards and approaches may have developed momentum and influence in their own right. Platform studies offers a related set of insights. Like infrastructure studies, platform studies is concerned with relationships between society and technical systems. Platform studies was introduced in Montfort and Bogost’s Racing the Beam (2009), in which they called for "http://stampadvisor.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=xavierdeschamps.free.fr%2FEscalade%2FForum_escalade%2Fprofile.php%3Fid%3D391509 scholars to investigate technical details of platforms to understand their relationships to culture. Regarding the Internet, the term ‘platform’ has been used to connote various meanings about websites and apps that host user-generated content.

Many companies use collaborative tools like Dropbox so that colleagues can share media like documents and images in real-time. Unfortunately, file attachments are a common vector for malware. And of users who receive infected attachments, 12% will click on them. Hackers will attempt to spread infected files by spoofing a Dropbox email and tricking their victims into downloading the document. ALERT! DANGER! ACT IMMEDIATELY! That’s what this subject line screams, and it will have your employees scrambling to open the email for more details. Once they arrive at the destination, they’ll be asked to enter their credentials and the real security breach will begin. In today’s gig economy, many people like to balance lucrative side hustles with their main line of work. Hackers like to prey on this by pitching fake work-from-home jobs and freelance gigs. Depending on how elaborate the scheme is, these hackers could steal anything from sensitive personal information (like Social Security numbers and bank accounts) to actual money by claiming it covers onboarding supplies like laptops and tablets. Turn the next big hacker heist into a box-office flop this October with our free cybersecurity awareness month toolkit. Phishing emails are so effective because they have a pernicious way of catching people off guard. That means the more your employees know about phishing, the less likely they are to fall for potential attacks. Cybersecurity training workshops and simulated phishing attacks are both excellent ways to keep your staff from taking the bait from a phisher. And when your employees do stumble across a phishing scam, encourage them to report it - even if they accidentally clicked on it. Only 3% of employees report phishing emails, but if that number were higher, there’d be much fewer dangerous phish lurking in your company’s network. Have you or your employees recently received a phishing email? Let us know what the subject line was in the comments!