Small biz social media tricks

Wok this way: Sansan Chicken in NYC is ditching the traditional cashier for a woman in the Philippines who works via Zoom. Customers tap orders on a digital kiosk and chat through a speaker system. The system has been dubbed “cost-effective” by the manager.

That will lead to $13.8 trillion in losses by 2028. The U.S. GDP — the largest economy in the world — is $25.5 trillion. (It’s followed by China at $17.9 trillion and Japan at $4.2 trillion.) Cybercrime is now a world economic leader. That’s just a bad phish-cal policy.

🚋 Blast from the past: San Francisco’s trains chug along using floppy disks from 1998, raising alarms over a possible “catastrophic failure.” Yep, each morning starts with a manual software load from these digital dinosaurs. Sure, an upgrade is on track, but it could take another decade and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

🛰️ Putin on a show: Russian troops in Ukraine are using Starlink terminals from black market networks for comms and drone ops. Despite SpaceX’s no-sale policy to Russia and efforts to block access, these devices were smuggled in and the geofencing controls were bypassed. Ahem, why can’t SpaceX just shut the internet terminal down?

He chose the road death traveled: What would you do to avoid paying $100,000 for child maintenance in a divorce? A hacker from Somerset, Kentucky, used a stolen doctor’s identity and declared himself gone in Hawaii’s death registry. Caught in this grave mistake, he faces up to seven years in prison and $500,000 in fines.

🛑 D-Link exploited: Over 92,000 older D-Link network-attached storage devices that stopped getting updates have been hacked with a backdoor account. Got one? Stop using it and buy a new one.

Phone use, unruly passengers and long hours are all crash culprits. Definitely buckle up.

Those aged 18 to 29 have been sent unwanted sexual pictures online. And it’s not just young women: 32% of all women and 30% of men have been cyberflashed. A new bill in Congress will make these pics illegal. Call it the anti-junk bill.