Changing one's behavior is not easy. There are some simple, universal truths. This article does a good job of walking through many of them.
Doing the best you can – with the resources you have, with the circumstances you’re in and with the mind you’ve inherited – at that moment is all you can ever do anyway.
- The 3-4-50 Framework suggesting that three behaviors contribute to 4 conditions that cause ~50 percent of deaths.
- 3️⃣ behaviors: tobacco use, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle
- 4️⃣ conditions: cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic lower respiratory disease, diabetes
- The article references the six phases of change in the transtheoretical model of behavior change.
- The importance and impact of self-forgiveness and self-compassion are mentioned and supported in this article.
A virtual teacher who reveals to you the great secrets of Base64
Encoding and Decoding site. e.g. HTML Escape / URL Encoding / Base64 / MD5 / SHA-1 / CRC32 / and many other String, Number, DateTime, Color, Hash formats!
U.S. schools rely on information technology for many operations. But cybersecurity incidents, like ransomware attacks, could significantly affect...
Download the 2024 Environmental Report. This report charts our progress and methodology, and shares knowledge and insights for others.
LdapNightmare is a PoC tool that tests a vulnerable Windows Server against CVE-2024-49113 - SafeBreach-Labs/CVE-2024-49113
The new Brain Cipher ransomware operation has begun targeting organizations worldwide, gaining media attention for a recent attack on Indonesia's temporary National Data Center.
The Indonesian National Data Center was hit by a significant ransomware attack with the ransomware identified as Brain Cipher, a new variant of LockBit 3.0.
Attribution of the December 2024 Rhode Island ransomware incident was linked to this group.
This bulletin was prepared by the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice.
A scourge.
In the business world, they say that culture eats strategy for breakfast—meaning that the people implementing the strategy, and the skills, attitudes, and assumptions they bring to it, will make more difference than even the most brilliant plan. In government, culture eats policy.
This article is also a story about the importance of domain knowledge and why it's difficult (and risky) to push back against the norms, especially when it's the right thing to do. As I say: the process is not the point.
Rhode Island said it’s being extorted after hack of Deloitte-run benefits system.
An Act providing for consumer data privacy, for duties of controllers and for duties of processors; and imposing penalties.
Pennsylvania Consumer Data Privacy Act
To date, 20 states have passed data privacy laws in the U.S. Other states have also introduced bills to keep up with the data privacy race.
CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) went into effect more than five years ago. I was in grad school when this legislation was signed into law. I distinctly remember being hopeful that it would be a good model that could be adopted at the federal level. Fast forward to 2025 and I am not actually surprised that this remains at the state level and has that classic patchwork approach vibe.
Automated decision-making systems contain hidden discriminatory prejudices. We’ll explain the causes, possible consequences, and the reasons why existing laws do not provide sufficient protection against algorithmic discrimination.