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Old Tech Tuesday
Welcome back! For this week, lets talk experiences. Key memories are typically associated with multiple senses. One great example is the resurgence of the clickety-clackety mechanical keyboards. What's sound, touch, or other sensory experience that unlocks a key memory? Mine is the sound of a dot matrix printer, where I had to print projects like hello_world.java from the sun microsystems computers in the basement computer lab.
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21 hours ago Place Fun
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Cybersecurity Challenge: Your Mission - Analyze, Report & Defend! 🫡
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and as professionals we know that recognizing a threat is only the first step - knowing how to triage, investigate and mitigate it is what builds true cyber resilience. To kick off this special month, we’re challenging our community to put their incident response instincts to the test! 🔍 The Challenge: Threat Analysis & Response Take a look at the attached simulated phishing email. It’s loaded with initial indicators of compromise and social engineering tactics. Your Mission: Identify at least 5 distinct red flags hiding in this email. Go Beyond Awareness: Pick at least one red flag and explain how you or your organization would: Investigate: What logs, headers, or telemetry would you pull to verify the threat scope? Respond & Defend: What immediate remediation or control updates (e.g., mail gateway rules, SIEM detections, endpoint controls) would you implement to prevent impact? ✏️ How to Participate Examine the email screenshot above. Reply in the comments with your 5 identified red flags + your investigation/defense strategy. Check back on October 23rd when we share the answers! 🎁 Prizes & Bonus Entries 🎟️ Every detailed submission enters you into a raffle for a prize! 🚀 Want an extra entry? Share your response or this challenge on LinkedIn, tag/link back to the Community and paste the link in your comment reply! 🛡️ Why "Beyond Awareness" Matters Threat actors constantly adapt their tactics, techniques and procedures. Moving beyond passive identification into active triage and defensive engineering ensures that every member of our community acts as a sensor and defender. Drop your submission in the comments below! 👇 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDIT: The Answer Key & Winner Announcement! A massive shoutout to Shaqdiesel! You stepped up to the plate and delivered a fantastic response to this challenge with spot-on analysis and an exceptional incident response playbook. Thank you so much for participating! As our standout participant, you’ve officially taken home an Everpure prize! Keep an eye on your direct messages so we can coordinate getting you your winnings. The official answer key: See if it matched up to what you were thinking! Thanks everyone for following along and happy Cybersecurity Awareness Month!
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3 days ago Place General
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Pure Report Podcast: Driving Value and Growth Through Sustainable Data Infrastructure
New episode of the Pure Report is live! 🎧 I sat down with Kathy Mulvany, Senior Director and Global Head of Sustainability and Social Impact, to dig into Everpure's new Global Impact Report and why sustainability has become an engineering and operating discipline, not just a reporting exercise. A few highlights: How remanufactured DirectFlash Modules are avoiding thousands of metric tons of carbon emissions Real customer outcomes, from AI data centers to state agencies shrinking their data center footprint Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, and why supplier partnerships matter Impact accounting: framing sustainability around business value, risk and long-term growth ▶️ Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3jFYipBmPw 🌱 Learn more: https://www.everpuredata.com/company/sustainability.html How is your organization measuring the footprint of its infrastructure? Let us know in the comments!
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3 days ago Place General
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Old Tech Tuesday: Forbidden Tech
We're back for another Old Tech Tuesday! This week... What was the piece of technology that was forbidden in your childhood? I was strictly forbidden from using the turntable of the family stereo, a 90's era Onkyo. ...just like my kids are now 😁
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6 days ago Place Fun
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‘Tis the Season: Share Your Spookiest "Data Horror Stories"! 👻
We kicked this month off with some Cybersecurity Awareness month fun, now let’s shift gears towards something a little more spooky to celebrate the Halloween season. As Data enthusiasts and professionals, we all have our dreaded Data Horror Story that sticks in the back of our minds. Will you have the scariest tale? 🕸️ We want to hear YOUR spooky stories! What is the most horrifying, hair-raising or downright just plain funny data mishap you’ve ever experienced? How did you escape that nightmare (or fix the query)? Whether it was a mysterious dashboard metric that unexpectedly plummeted to zero at 4:59 PM on a Friday or entering a server room that just gave you the chills - drop your best Data Horror Story in the comments below!
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6 days ago Place Fun
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Old Tech Tuesday: Superstitions
We're back for Old Tech Tuesday! This week, we are covering Superstitions. One of the best things about the analog era was that wiggles and bangs used to fix things. What's something that you used to do that you know in your heart worked, but now in retrospect realize probably didn't do much. Apparently, Nintendo discouraged blowing into cartridges to get them to work, even everyone knows it works. 🙃
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13 days ago Place Fun
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Old Tech Tuesday: Apocalypse Edition
It is the end of the world 😥 Somehow you have power, but modern technology isn't looking so reliable. You get to put one piece of old tech in your bunker, alongside your freeze dried beef stew and water purification tablets. What are you bringing...and why?
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20 days ago Place Fun
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Does anybody actually buy business services from unsolicited emails or LinkedIn messages?
I’m genuinely curious. Like most people, I get a steady stream of messages from people I’ve never met offering consulting services, lead generation, website help, recruiting, AI solutions, financial services—you name it. And I realized recently that I can’t remember ever responding to one, much less actually buying something as a result. But somebody must be doing it, right? Otherwise, why would there be so much of it? Have you ever hired a company or bought a business service because of an unsolicited email or LinkedIn message? If you have, what made that particular message work when most of them are so easy to ignore? I’d especially be interested to hear from people on both sides—buyers and people who use outbound outreach as part of their business.
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27 days ago Place Fun
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Does anybody actually buy business services from unsolicited emails or LinkedIn messages?
I’m genuinely curious. Like most people, I get a steady stream of messages from people I’ve never met offering consulting services, lead generation, website help, recruiting, AI solutions, financial services—you name it. And I realized recently that I can’t remember ever responding to one, much less actually buying something as a result. But somebody must be doing it, right? Otherwise, why would there be so much of it? Have you ever hired a company or bought a business service because of an unsolicited email or LinkedIn message? If you have, what made that particular message work when most of them are so easy to ignore? I’d especially be interested to hear from people on both sides—buyers and people who use outbound outreach as part of their business.
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1 month ago Place Fun
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Old Tech Tuesday
What is an old piece of technology that you still use today, or something you wish was still functional? I have yet to find a mouse to replace my early 2000's Logitech MX510 🙃
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1 month ago Place Fun
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