A few cordial reminders from your helpful and responsive Boomer/Gen X security department Hello and congratulations on completing your six-month new-employee probationary period. We’d like to take this opportunity to answer some of your questions and respond to some of your suggestions from the employee survey.With some reluctance, in response to user request we are looking into the possibility of creating a first-person-shooter-style iPad app you can use for filing your reports of parking lot vehicle damage.Finance rightly refused to allow smartphone access to the core ERP modules. They’ve indicated they’ll put it all into Amazon AWS public cloud anyway; we look forward to continuing our discussions with them about that.To the R&D group—we admire and appreciate your enthusiasm for that next-generation product you’re working on. However, you must immediately remove the meeting notes from the Facebook page you created. Yes, even though you have 1,306 likes already.As for those two clever tricks you “invented” (as several of you characterized it in your UltraCorp Newbie LinkedIn group. Yes, we can read that.) to help friends who’ve forgotten their access cards: Passback and tailgating have been around for decades. We were surprised to find usage of freelargefiletransfer.com has spiked in several departments since your arrival. We spent a good deal of money (er, bread? cake? cheddar?) last fiscal year installing a secure, encrypted file-transfer program that integrates with our email system. (“Email” is a messaging program. It’s a lot like Twitter, only turn-based instead of real-time.) Could you pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty please use that instead?Your required cooperation is appreciated,Team Securityx.4213 P.S. Follow us on Twitter! @teamsecurityultracorp Related content news Multibillion-dollar cybersecurity training market fails to fix the supply-demand imbalance Despite money pouring into programs around the world, training organizations have not managed to ensure employment for professionals, while entry-level professionals are finding it hard to land a job By Samira Sarraf Oct 02, 2023 6 mins CSO and CISO CSO and CISO CSO and CISO news Royal family’s website suffers Russia-linked cyberattack Pro-Russian hacker group KillNet took responsibility for the attack days after King Charles condemned the invasion of Ukraine. By Michael Hill Oct 02, 2023 2 mins DDoS Cyberattacks feature 10 things you should know about navigating the dark web A lot can be found in the shadows of the internet from sensitive stolen data to attack tools for sale, the dark web is a trove of risks for enterprises. Here are a few things to know and navigate safely. By Rosalyn Page Oct 02, 2023 13 mins Cybercrime Security news ShadowSyndicate Cybercrime gang has used 7 ransomware families over the past year Researchers from Group-IB believe it's likely the group is an independent affiliate working for multiple ransomware-as-a-service operations By Lucian Constantin Oct 02, 2023 4 mins Hacker Groups Ransomware Cybercrime Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe