Cloud is always there for you: Like the ones we want in our lives, Cloud solutions are available 24/7*365 days, with several Cloud-enabled technologies offering guaranteed uptime in their Service Level Agreements.

Cloud is what you want it to be: In comparison to certain on-premise technologies, the Cloud doesn’t burden the enterprise while transitioning costs to operations. This means organizations can spend less time in cost and more time in innovation.

They give you choices: Cloud gives multiple options for organizations to be more flexible; one such option is the multi-Cloud strategy. Multi-Cloud implementation is when organizations have multiple Cloud services running in one architecture which helps them increase flexibility and innovation possibilities.

They support your goals: Cloud is the perfect partner one could hope for. From collaboration, ease of access, to being extremely economical, it has impacted how other innovations are created and scaled with the adoption of DevOps. As operations increase in scale, some organizations are adopting Cloud-native PaaS platforms to accelerate development and achieve result-oriented goals faster.

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These passwords are hashed or encrypted and need to be cracked before they can be used. These databases, depending on the sites, consist of user information such as location, personal details, and social media authentication tokens. By far, there are no payment or bank card details published in the black-market sale listing.

Hijacked databases of the following websites can be purchased from the Dream Market cyber-souk, located in the Tor network:

• Dubsmash - 162 million accounts, MyFitnessPal - 151 million accounts, MyHeritage - 92 million accounts, ShareThis - 41 million accounts, HauteLook - 28 million accounts, Animoto - 25 million accounts, EyeEm - 22 million accounts, 8fit - 20 million accounts, Whitepages - 18 million accounts, Fotolog - 16 million accounts, 500px - 15 million accounts, Armor Games - 11 million accounts, BookMate - 8 million accounts, CoffeeMeetsBagel - 6 million accounts, Artsy - 1 million accounts, and DataCamp - 700,000 accounts.

The hacker claimed to have exploited the security vulnerabilities within web apps to gain remote-code execution to extract user account data. All of the databases are right now being promoted separately by a single hacker on the dark web, as per reports.

Read More: The Register

The war over how best to protect the US-Mexico border is severely impacting the nation’s cybersecurity and with the longest federal government shutdown in the history of this country underway, Our cyber defense capabilities have taken a massive blow.

While the short-term impact is severe, the long-term effects could prove even more catastrophic. According to several recent reports, with every passing day, we have started relying on something similar to ‘luck’ than ‘strategy or systems’ to keep our cyber ecosystem secure.

Several federal agencies including the Department of State, Homeland Security, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce and Department of Housing and Urban Development, The Environmental Protection Agency, Internal Revenue Service, The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Park Service have lost funding due to the shutdown. According to Tom Gann, chief of public policy at security research firm McAfee, “Many of these agencies are on the hit-list for hackers, organizations that specialize in high-end security intrusions and nation-state actors.”

"Cybersecurity at these agencies and departments could be degraded because lower-level government employees who bear the brunt of the shutdown often are on the front lines of basic computer security monitoring work," Gann said. “A major part of cybersecurity work at these agencies is performed by contracted employees who are also not available, as they are not getting paid during the government shut down,” Gann said.

Former Federal Chief Information Security Officer, Gregory Touhill, said that during the closure, “skilled people qualified to respond to the alerts/alarms may not be in place or even available due to the shutdown.”

Another notable point is that during the shutdown, it will be easy for hackers to define what the United States considers to be its critical systems. They will be looking at detailed activities in our cybersecurity ecosystem.

By current estimates, roughly 800,000 federal workers are currently unavailable include:

Currently, several of NIST weblinks effectively lead you to a dead end.

There is a growing concern among government's cybersecurity professionals that hackers will indeed take advantage of the partial shutdown, tampering with sensitive government data or stealing citizen’s information. Cybersecurity is hard enough job with a full crew. It’s a battle just to keep up with emerging cyber threat. Working with less than half strength means that we are at significant risk; The impact on our nation’s security grows with each passing day. While there is no doubt that all the agencies and departments have a good plan in place to keep essential systems and functions running, but with bare-bones staff there is only so much that can be done.

“Cyber threats don’t operate on Washington’s political timetable, and they don’t stop because of a shutdown,”  Lisa Monaco, former assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, told Axios.

A new generation of workforce

Millennials & Generation Z tend to spend most of their free time using social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Millennials spend so much time on them, in fact, that social media has become the most accessible tool to reach them. The graph below represents the use of social media

This modern workforce is well-acquainted with digital platforms and computers, are versatile and can easily accustom themselves to new technologies.

Slipping in your own personalized advertisements for potential jobs between the articles and posts they typically read is the perfect way to reach them, get their attention and gain their interest in applying to your job offer.

Reaching a larger audience

Facebook is a popular option for companies and advertisers to post their content based on profiles, interests and time of the day. 52% of employers now use social media networking sites as a part of the recruiting process.

It is advisable to set the frequency of your advertisement based on criteria that most match your needs and you can cast a wide and targeted reach, whatever position you are looking to fill.

For example, you can set certain parameters so that all software developers across Europe see your job ad at exactly 10 PM local time when they scroll through their news feed. This is only a fraction of what social media advertising can accomplish for you when it comes to narrowing down your candidate profiles.

Easy Background Checks

There is nothing new about checking your candidates’ social media profiles for more information. Interviewers usually check the professional version of social media i.e., LinkedIn of their candidates to see their professional recommendations, content they share, social circles etc. Social media can also be used to determine if the candidate is a perfect fit, not just for the job role but also the company culture. According to a survey of recruiters and hiring managers by Jobvite, cultural fit, is key for most employers.

It is very common that candidates don’t feel the need to disclose any personal information during an interview and like to keep things to themselves; social media can provide a great insight into who your candidates really are before they even step through the door.

What do employers look for in social profiles?

1. 51% say that they’re looking to see if the candidate will be a good fit with the corporate culture.
2. 45% are researching potential hires on social media to find out more about that candidate’s qualifications.
3. 44% of hiring managers want to see if a candidate is creative.

Source: careers.workopolis

In conclusion, connecting with a younger and more dynamic candidate base on social media and utilizing it effectively as a means of communication & recruitment is a good way to establish trust. Giving the responsibility of social media recruitment to a millennial team of recruiters and letting them interact with their like-minded generation of candidates can also be a great way to insert some friendliness into your recruitment pattern.

It shows that your company can adapt to new technologies and trends, giving the candidate a huge reason to consider working for you.