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Meet Stephen Guerra – a seasoned support specialist with a passion for empowering users through technology & accessibility.

From training teams on Google & Microsoft platforms to creating custom testing logs & providing expert tech support, Stephen brings both knowledge and heart to every interaction.

He’s open to work and ready to bring his skills to a mission-driven team that values impact, clarity, and connection.

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🚨 Job Seekers, watch out! 🚨 Proofpoint researchers have observed multiple email campaigns impersonating job interview invites from real companies and recruiters.

These emails claim to offer opportunities via Zoom or Teams, but instead lead recipients to install remote management tools (RMM) like SimpleHelp, ScreenConnect, or Atera.

Here's what you need to know:

💻 What’s the threat?
While RMM tools are used legitimately by IT teams, in the hands of cybercriminals, they function like remote access trojans (RATs)—granting attackers full access to your computer, data, and finances.

📬 In one case, a hacked LinkedIn account posted a real job description but swapped in a malicious Gmail address. Proofpoint later discovered this address being used to send fake interview invites to job seekers who had applied.

🔍 How are they doing it?

Threat actors may:

• Create fake job listings to harvest emails
• Hack recruiter inboxes or LinkedIn accounts
• Use lists of stolen email addresses

🎯 This trend is part of a broader wave of cyberattacks where RMM/RAS (remote access software) is used as the initial payload—blending in with normal traffic before launching further attacks like data theft or ransomware.

⚠️ If you're job hunting, stay alert:

• Double-check email sender names and domains
• Be wary of .exe files or suspicious URLs
• If something feels off, trust your instinct

Read more from our threat research team on threats using RMM tools: proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-

Proofpoint · Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) Tooling Increasingly an Attacker’s First Choice | Proofpoint USKey findings    More threat actors are using legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools as a first-stage payload in email campaigns.  RMMs can be used for

New server, new #introduction:

👋 Hi! I'm Eric! I'm a scientific programmer & educator who writes mostly :rstats: code. I currently work part time at #UniversityOfArizona where I help researchers by making R packages, #Shiny apps, automated data workflows, and training them on #ReproducibleResearch practices. I also mentor data scientists for @Posit Academy. I am #OpenToWork as a contractor if any of those skills sound useful to you.

My background is in plant chemical ecology and population ecology and for my PhD I studied #tea and did field work in China. I love tea (although I've been drinking coffee more and more lately) and practice #GongFuCha when I can. I love #foraging and tasting new things.

I currently live in #Tucson but the #BayArea will always be my home.

Zamknąłem dzisiaj konto na Linkedin, mimo że właśnie zaczynam się rozglądać za nową pracą. Ale uznałem, że na linkedinie i tak nie znajdę nic wartościowego, za to gównoposty, które tam się pojawiają odrzucały mnie od dawna. #opentowork

hey, looking to get back into film VFX - comp, motion graphics, weird fx stuff. been doing this forever. open to anything: short films, passion projects, low-budget chaos, whatever. freelance, contract, or just for fun if the vibe’s right. hit me up if you’re making something and need help melting pixels. :)

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hey, looking to get back into film VFX - comp, motion graphics, weird fx stuff. been doing this forever. open to anything: short films, passion projects, low-budget chaos, whatever. freelance, contract, or just for fun if the vibe’s right. hit me up if you’re making something and need help melting pixels. :)

robotbrush.com

The RobotBrush CollectiveHome | The RobotBrush CollectiveExperience the magic of cinema with our talented team of VFX artists, motion graphics artists, composers, and video editors. Let us bring your project to life!
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Und weiter? Ich habe nun Zeit und Ruhe, unter anderem darüber nachzudenken:
* Wie kann ich mich weiter wirkungsvoll für eine liberale #Demokratie und #Rechtsstaatlichkeit einsetzen und für den dafür unabdingbaren Freiraum #zivilgesellschaft|lichen Handelns? Wie geht das, während gleichzeitig die #Klimakrise uns alle bedroht und Bundesregierung und Bundestag viel zu wenig dagegen tun - die zivilgesellschaftlichen Forderungen dazu seit Jahren ignorierend?
* Wie kann ich das von meinem Lebensort #Marburg aus machen ohne viele teure #Berlin-Reisen?
* Gelingt das mit weniger ständiger Reaktionsbereitschaft am Puls der Politik - ohne Überanstrengung?
* In welcher Rolle will ich das tun? Strategische Kommunikation & Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Advocacy, Fundraising, (Organisations)Beratung, mit Expertise & Text & als Speaker?

Über Impulse dazu freue ich mich. #OpenToWork

It’s been almost three months since I was laid off from my dream job as a software developer. I still haven’t found a new role, and I’m getting pretty frustrated and worried that I might have to leave tech altogether just to be able to pay the bills.

If anyone knows of someone looking for an Adobe Commerce/Magento developer (or maybe just PHP at this point) in the US, please send them my info. My LinkedIn is: linkedin.com/in/JosephLeedy

Thanks for any leads.

hey, looking to get back into film VFX - comp, motion graphics, weird fx stuff. been doing this forever. open to anything: short films, passion projects, low-budget chaos, whatever. freelance, contract, or just for fun if the vibe’s right. hit me up if you’re making something and need help melting pixels. :)

robotbrush.com

The RobotBrush CollectiveHome | The RobotBrush CollectiveExperience the magic of cinema with our talented team of VFX artists, motion graphics artists, composers, and video editors. Let us bring your project to life!
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😩 Just got a furlough notification from my employer today. I've known this might happen for a while, but it still sucks.

SO with that in mind I'm re-upping the post above👆 about exploring a pivot from tech to ecology for visibility. If you have thoughts, questions, epiphanies I'd love to hear.

While I try to get a gameplan for that together, I'm also scouting around for software dev roles.

I know it's rough out there, but if you know of a connection or opportunity that might be worth exploring, please reach out.

Previous post with some of my dev background is here: hachyderm.io/@MightyRedPanda/1

Hachyderm.ioRoss Young (@MightyRedPanda@hachyderm.io)Just found out my client contract is unexpectedly ending at the end of this month, and that puts me at risk of a layoff at my consulting firm after that. So I'm trying to get ahead of things and find a new team to utilize my almost 10 years of experience in Web and software engineering. **About me:** 🌐 I have professional experience with TypeScript, Vue, Nodejs, Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby/Rails and more. Plus I enjoy exploring a language or framework I've not used before, and I have proven I can ramp up my comprehension quickly. 🧭 I am based in the US Central Timezone (or UTC -5) and am looking for remote roles that work well with that. 👨‍💻 I have worked up and down the stack and am open to a variety of position focuses. **About my new team:** 🧠 They value competency and critical thinking over specific stack experience, prioritizing open collaboration and knowledge sharing. 🔧 They take standards and best practices seriously, not reaching for the quickest solution for its own sake. 🌎 (ideally) They seek to help solve problems that impact major issues of our time. **About you:** 👋 You have connections to folks I should talk to, or you *are* someone I should talk to. ‼️ You know of or have seen roles that might be worth looking into. 🔁 You can boost this to try to connect it with folks who might fit one of the first two points 😁 I'm grateful for your input. Thanks y'all. #GetFediHired #FediHired #OpenToWork