Invisibility

• SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Picus Security , the Security Validation company, has released the Picus Red Report 2024 .
• This year, Picus uncovered a surge of "Hunter-killer" malware from the research findings, demonstrating a drastic shift in adversaries' ability to identify and neutralize advanced enterprise defenses such as next-gen firewalls, antivirus, and EDR.
• "We are witnessing a surge in ultra-evasive, highly aggressive malware which shares the characteristics of hunter-killer submarines," said Dr. Suleyman Ozarslan, Picus Security Co-founder and VP of Picus Labs.
• Between January 2023 and December 2023, Picus Labs, the research unit of Picus Security, analyzed 667,401 unique files, with 612,080 (92%) categorized as malicious.

• SINGAPORE and SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtual Internet announced that Virtual 5G has now been enhanced to provide increased performance and security for platforms that incorporate wearable technologies.
• Virtual 5G enhancements are now fully automated and users do not need to make any special configuration changes to enable enhancements for their wearables.
• Technological advancement in wearable health devices has developed low-consumption and high-integration sensor technology with low-power high-performance battery technology and high processing chip technology.
• Wearable Device sensors need connection to the network, yet Network issues of Bandwidth, Security, Privacy and Performance impact the utility of Wearable Health Devices.

• “The defendants’ claims that their products can stand in for approved COVID-19 vaccines are bogus,” said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
• For example, the defendants claimed their product “uses quantum theory technology, combines known virus and bacteria killing compounds.
• The complaint also alleges the defendants falsely claimed that the Invisible Mask or its materials are government approved or made in a government-approved facility.
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• In 2022, the percentage of employees who are union members fell to 29 per cent from 38 per cent in 1981.
• Our recent research reveals that rather than revitalize the public image of unions, social media can sometimes have the opposite effect, underscoring a serious concern: the potential for unions to become invisible online.

Widening the divide

• First, it can increase the “us versus them” divide between unions and entities like companies, employers or governments.
• This growing divide can be partly attributed to the normalization of vehement or abrasive disagreements online.
• This effect is reminiscent of the heightened political polarization we are witnessing today with the widening chasm between left- and right-leaning groups.

Self-centeredness

• Social media has been shown to encourage narcissistic behaviour in its users and our research suggests this also applies to organizations like unions.
• Unions can unintentionally distort their online image by portraying their members in an overly positive way.

Becoming a caricature of themselves

• This type of distortion likely stems from the pressure to maintain an active online presence by posting frequently.
• All the unions in our study posted between five to seven messages weekly on their Facebook pages.

Disappearing behind the news

• This can result in a decline in an organization’s visibility and relevance online — to the point where the identity of the union almost disappears.
• This effect becomes more pronounced when there is no accompanying text or references connecting the shared news articles to the union or its members.

Invisibility on social media

• Social media can be a double-edged sword for labour unions.
• Since communication plays a key role in bolstering the power of unions, there is a legitimate concern that social media could weaken their ability to defend workers’ rights, instead of strengthening it.
• Our research underscores the need for unions to think about how they can transform their images online with more effective social media communication.