If you’re asking for more from your teams, you should ask the same of yourself

Common wisdom suggests that we should treat our teams as fragile and avoid overburdening our resources. In some cases, the opposite is true. Image: Rawpixel, Getty Images/iStockphoto As a sympathetic…

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Over 1.5 billion Facebook users’ personal data found for sale on hacker forum

Unrelated to other recent problems Facebook has had, this particular batch of data was scraped from profiles, meaning it's publicly available knowledge. That doesn't stop it from being dangerous. Image:…

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Behind the scenes: A day in the life of a database administrator

Here's a look at how one database administrator collaborates with his coworkers, helping analyze data, strategizing with business leaders and leading teams at work. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Kevin Kline started…

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Lawsuit claims ransomware attack caused fatal injury to infant at Alabama hospital

Fetal heartbeat monitors were down in the labor and delivery wards, which the lawsuit claims resulted in a baby being born with brain damage. Image: Shutterstock/Darwin Brandis More about cybersecurity…

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Consumer privacy study finds online privacy is of growing concern to increasingly more people

The study, from Cisco, comes with the announcement of its New Trust Standard, a benchmark for seeing how trustworthy businesses are as they embrace digital transformation. Xtock, Getty Images/iStockphoto Cisco…

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