An English teacher may have taught you that the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Your science teacher probably should have taught you that the English teacher was wrong — or at least using a bit too much poetic license. In truth, research shows that making concrete plans [Keep reading]
There’s a close play at the plate. Under a cloud of dust, the runner’s hand appears to sneak in just before the catcher applies the tag, but in real-time, it’s hard to say. The umpire signals safe. There’s an instant replay challenge. Video is shown on the board at Chicago’s [Keep reading]
If you’ve ever been wronged by a large company and wanted to do more than shake your angry irst at a building, you’re going to enjoy meeting Jessamyn West. When the Equifax hack hit, she wanted to do more than whine to friends and family. She wanted justice. So she [Keep reading]
A high school applicant to Worcester Polytechnic Institute says he was able to access his record within the school’s CRM software and edit crucial fields such as his own SAT scores, confidential recommendation letters, and even an “application decision” toggle field for his application. Dozens of other colleges might be [Keep reading]
Everyone makes mistakes. And every company might suffer a data breach. After years of examples, two things should be obvious to every company: 1) You will likely be hacked and 2) You should have an airtight, lock-solid plan for dealing with the aftermath of such an inevitable hack. Obvious, apparently, [Keep reading]
I’ll admit it; I love March Madness. Even if I have a million problems with the way the NCAA runs its business (and, it is a business). As long as we are all losing precious work hours checking in on our brackets, we might as well learn something. CNBC / [Keep reading]
Now, we’re getting into the nitty-gritty. How did criminals get inside Equifax, and what were all the missteps inside the company that led to the hack? In episode three, we hear from the GAO investigators who actually got inside Equifax and interviewed the principals involved. We find out that it [Keep reading]
It was inevitable, I just didn’t think it would happen so soon. Someone with a deep background in the hacker world is a serious candidate for President. Beto O’Rourke was an early member of the Cult of the Dead Cow, according to this remarkable story by Joseph Menn at Reuters. [Keep reading]
Laziness is one of humanity’s most powerful driving forces. It’s also perhaps the greatest insight from the field of behavioral science — or the one that’s been put to the most practical use, anyway. It goes by the fancy name “default bias,” and societies around the world are now using [Keep reading]
There are some things you can do in a podcast you can’t do with the written word. Here’s one: For this episode of Breach, we tracked down audio of the CEO of Equifax speaking at a business school in 2017. His words are tough to take knowing what we know [Keep reading]
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