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How To Work Remotely And Still Be Productive

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SET YOUR OWN SCHEDULE AND STICK TO IT

One of the first things people working remotely experience are friends and family members viewing them as having much more free time than they actually have. Especially if your job gets done primarily through your laptop. There’s just something about watching someone sit on a couch with a laptop that makes others think you’re not working. In an office building, you’d look hard at work. At home, you look like you’re simply internet surfing. If you set a schedule every Sunday and let your family and friends know your office hours they will be more likely to respect your work time.

CREATE A PROTECTED WORKSPACE

If you live alone it’s a lot easier to treat any area of your home as a workspace. But you’ll still need to make some type of separation for your own sanity. Consider decorating one area or room so that it has nothing to do with work. This could be your bedroom or sitting area. You’ll need to feel like you have somewhere to unplug. If you live with family, having a home office room is ideal but not always possible. Discuss and commit to an area that you can work from without interruption.

PROACTIVELY REACH OUT TO CO-WORKERS, LEADERS AND CLIENTS

Don’t rely on them to connect with you. It can be easy to get pulled into the bliss or misery of isolation, depending on your social preferences. But the reality is, when working remotely, people need to be shown you are thinking of them. If you don’t have a cause for regular engagement with key people then you should schedule reminders to reach out with an email or call.

UPDATE ON PROGRESS MORE THAN USUAL

Since this is a new experience for everyone, you should err on the side of over-communicating, especially with work progress, until remote working norms are established. Send updates to your manager and clients vs. waiting for them to ask you for them. Ask them what preferences they have around frequency, content and form of updates.

GET OUT OF THE HOUSE

Take advantage of the fact that you don’t have to be tied to a desk. Check out local coffee shops, libraries or diners that you can work from if your house isn’t a place that helps you concentrate. But make sure you…

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iPhone WiFi Threat Allows Hackers to Take Over Your Phone Remotely: Here’s How to Avoid the Security Risk

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What was first a seemingly harmless WiFi bug now poses an actual threat for iPhone users. Experts have discovered the tangible threat and warned iPhone users that these malicious network names can be harder to distinguish from legitimate ones.

Find out how you can avoid the security risk and keep your data safe.

iPhone WiFi Hack

Last month, reports of an iPhone Wi-Fi Bug that disables network connection first appeared to be harmless although it did have the potential to be exploited by hackers or anyone with malicious intent.

Now, according to Forbes, the threat is very real. Based on a research done by mobile security specialist ZecOps, they discovered a serious “zero-click” flaw was silently patched in the iOS 14.4 update.

Exploiting the vulnerability can be applied to the recent iPhone WiFi hack.

What this means is it can easily transform from being a relatively harmless denial of service (DoS) threat, the kind that was reported last month, into local privilege escalation (LPE) and remote code execution (RCE) attacks that can basically let hackers get into your phone and do whatever they want with it and all its contents–all done remotely!

“The recently disclosed ‘non-dangerous’ WiFi bug is potent,” warned Zuk Avraham, the CEO of ZecOps, per Forbes.

The attacker can infect an iPhone or iPad runnion iOS 14.3 or earlier without any interaction with an attacker, ZecOps explained. This is known as a zero-click attack.

For iPhone users running on the latest version of iOS (14.6), joining a malicious WiFi network can leave the device vulnerable. What’s alwarming is it is possible to construct a network name that does not expose the user to the weird characters that was described in earlier reports of the bug. This means even legitimate-looking or existing network names are actually malicious networks in disguise.

Apple has been working on a fix with their recent betas of iOS 14.7, said Forbes; however these attacks are new and,…

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