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Former Coinbase support agent arrested for helping hackers​


A former Coinbase customer service agent was arrested in India for helping hackers earlier this year steal sensitive customer information from a company database.

The arrest occurred in Hyderabad, the capital of India's Telangana state and a major technology center in the country, and it is expected that more individuals will be detained, according to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.
 

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Amazon is letting visa workers stranded in India work remotely — as long as they don't code or talk to customers​


Amazon is allowing employees who are stranded in India because of visa delays to work remotely there until early March, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider.

The catch: They're not allowed to code, make strategic decisions, or interact with customers.

Amazon is one of many American companies scrambling to adapt to the Trump administration's rapid-fire changes to the H-1B visa program, including a mandate that consular officers must review visa applicants' social media posts before issuing visas
 

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Former Coinbase support agent arrested for helping hackers​


A former Coinbase customer service agent was arrested in India for helping hackers earlier this year steal sensitive customer information from a company database.

The arrest occurred in Hyderabad, the capital of India's Telangana state and a major technology center in the country, and it is expected that more individuals will be detained, according to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.

I still don't know why companies give other countries access to critical infrastructure,,,,
saving money isn't the best move when dealing with that type of information
 

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Still doing great, and my contract got extended. :whew:
Still doing great, and my contract got extended once again. I was thinking about moving on but the job market is looking scary right now. :sadcam:

What tech jobs are in high demand right now, besides A.I and Cybersecurity?
 

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American Graduates Need Not Apply​


A senior partner at a large U.S. company admits corporations will skirt H-1B restrictions—leaving American graduates behind.

Even if they do recruit more graduates from U.S. colleges and universities, he told me, that doesn’t mean they’ll be hiring more Americans. Despite tighter H-1B restrictions, many of their new hires will still be foreign students on F-1 visas, who in the STEM fields are eligible to extend their stay and work in the U.S. for up to three years after graduating.

“Half the people we hire are from another country,” he said. “Universities are bringing in all these students from other countries because they pay full freight. So when we go on campuses to recruit, that’s our pool.”

He also noted that foreign students tend to perform better than their American counterparts, both in their college courses and on the battery of tests to which his company subjects applicants. That is obviously an indictment of native students, and it is something that, anecdotally speaking, I have noticed myself: in my classes, foreign students—and I have a lot of them now—tend to outperform American students.
 

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I still don't know why companies give other countries access to critical infrastructure,,,,
saving money isn't the best move when dealing with that type of information
Especially the US. You outsource production of your technical gadgets to China but then act dumbfounded on how China steals your intellectual property.
 

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Former Coinbase support agent arrested for helping hackers​


A former Coinbase customer service agent was arrested in India for helping hackers earlier this year steal sensitive customer information from a company database.

The arrest occurred in Hyderabad, the capital of India's Telangana state and a major technology center in the country, and it is expected that more individuals will be detained, according to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.
One of the thing most of these companies don't account for is paying this people less money to support and maintain your valuable information. Not saying it won't happen but the chances people will take will be less.
Still doing great, and my contract got extended once again. I was thinking about moving on but the job market is looking scary right now. :sadcam:

What tech jobs are in high demand right now, besides A.I and Cybersecurity?
TBH the analyst market is kind of popping now. I left the help desk/sys admin to do company decks for 2x the money.
 

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One of the thing most of these companies don't account for is paying this people less money to support and maintain your valuable information. Not saying it won't happen but the chances people will take will be less.

TBH the analyst market is kind of popping now. I left the help desk/sys admin to do company decks for 2x the money.
It destroys the business model if you start rapidly increasing salaries. Companies would be better served to enhancing security controls but that again cost money. Companies won't spend more until absolutely forced to do so. Seen it way too many times.
 
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