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Seven Profitable Jobs Worth Pursuing in 2022

Seven Profitable Jobs Worth Pursuing in 2022

The past few years have brought about a huge demand for new people in the workforce. Even after the initial surge of the pandemic, America is still desperate for not only medical professionals, but also those that play a key part in marketing, safety, and support. If you are looking for a new field to pursue, then recent statistics show that certain industries are growing at an unprecedented rate. In this post, we will take a look at some of the most profitable positions you can pursue in 2022.


1. IT Systems Analyst

Without a doubt, 2022 has already brought about a host of new digital threats and cyber attacks upon businesses. Even Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce company, had to recently defend against a DDoS attack with the largest traffic volume recorded. With threats like these constantly on businesses' minds, becoming an IT systems analyst is sure to bring you tons of different opportunities and no shortage of work. In the IT industry, there is also a lot of room for growth depending on your strengths. If problem-solving and computers are your passion, then an IT position could be right up your alley.


2. Web UX Designer

Every company needs a website, and every website needs a designer. Now more than ever, companies are hiring full-time UX designers to keep their websites accurate, secure, and responsive to their target audience. With site-building skills on your resume, you are sure to be a high-demand employee in any industry, or you can even become a dedicated freelance web designer. There is no shortage of work on the Internet, so grow your skills accordingly.


3. Data Scientist

One of the newest roles that business owners are constantly hiring for is a data analyst. Data scientists and analysts do research and find trends to help a business make wise decisions, as well as keep their files safe and secure. If organization is a passion of yours, then a job in data science may be the perfect place for you.


4. Speech-Language Pathologist

If you have a passion for teaching and education, you may have been deterred by the low salaries historically associated with teaching work. While teaching salaries can run anywhere on the spectrum, the role of a speech-language pathologist, or speech therapist, generally has a median salary of around $80,000 a year. In this position, you can help anyone from babies to old folks, and use your gift for helping others in a real and rewarding environment.


5. Registered Nurse

It comes as no surprise that the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an increased demand for healthcare professionals. Registered nurses have worked an insane amount of 12-hour shifts to account for the shortage, and there is still by no means a lack of open positions. If you are passionate about health and helping others, an RN may be the perfect job for you.


6. Logistician

All of the products you see lining the shelves of your local store have most likely been delivered thanks to the help of a logistician. These experts guide the ordering, production, and transportation of products to ensure that there are no shortages. Logisticians are also the first hands on deck when a natural disaster strikes, making sure that communities get the equipment and supplies they need. If you work great behind the scenes, then consider joining the group of logisticians that keep our supply chain running.


7. Construction Manager

If you have a knack for building and teamwork, then you would be amiss if you didn't consider being a construction manager. Construction managers are crucial for every step of the building process, and have a say in everything from initial budgeting to physical construction. With an average salary of $97,000, they typically balance many projects at once. If you love seeing a project through from start to finish, then this job may be a great match.

Clearly, 2022 has brought about a huge demand for new members of the workforce. If you keep up with the market trends and plan your education accordingly, you are sure to have several job offers in whichever industry you choose.

Jason Miller

Trumpist Platform GETTR Delivers Terrorism, Furry Porn, And A Massive Security Breach

Reprinted with permission from Daily Kos

If there's anything that right-wing chat platforms promising uncensored "free speech" like Gab and Parler have proven, it's that such predicates ensure the platforms will quickly be inundated with the worst people in the world—bigots spewing death threats, hatemongers, disinformation artists, conspiracy theorists, vile misogynists, and terrorists of all stripes. The kind of clients that will doom such networks to permanent deplatforming.

The same fate has predictably befallen GETTR, Donald Trump acolyte Jason Miller's social-media app launched last month to right-wing hurrahs. After stumbling through multiple hacks indicating the site's cybersecurity was paltry, it is now besieged by Islamic State terrorists posting propaganda—including memes urging Trump's execution and graphic beheading videos, Politico reports.

Islamic State "has been very quick to exploit GETTR," Moustafa Ayad, executive director for Africa, the Middle East, and Asia at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told Politico'sMark Scott and Tina Nyugen. "On Facebook, there was on one of these accounts that I follow that is known to be Islamic State, which said 'Oh, Trump announced his new platform. Inshallah, all the mujahideen will exploit that platform,'" he added. "The next day, there were at least 15 accounts on GETTR that were Islamic State."

Islamic State celebrated their successful infiltration of the pro-Trump platform: "We will come at you with slaying and explosions you worshippers of the cross," wrote one pro-ISIS account. "How great is freedom of expression."

Miller dismissed the flood of ISIS sympathizers as "keyboard warriors hiding in caves and eating dirt cookies." He also claimed that GETTR's content moderation was effective.

"ISIS is trying to attack the MAGA movement because President Trump wiped them off the face of the earth, destroying the Caliphate in less than 18 months, and the only ISIS members still alive are keyboard warriors hiding in caves and eating dirt cookies," Miller said in a statement. "Buried beneath a misleading and inflammatory headline, however, even Politico acknowledges GETTR has a robust and proactive moderation system that removes prohibited content, maximizing both cutting-edge A.I. technology and human moderation."

In fact, Politicoreported that four days after it had submitted its queries to GETTR about the Islamic State posts, "many of these accounts and videos are still up."

When Miller launched GETTR early in July, it was advertised as "a non-bias social network for people all over the world" and boasted that it was "the marketplace of ideas." (It also shortly emerged that Miller had obtained seed money for the venture from rogue Chinese investor Guo Wengui.) Trump himself declined to sign up.

However, a number of prominent Republicans—nearly all of them from the pro-Trump camp—did. These included House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, Conference Chair Elise Stefanik of New York, as well as Congressmen Jim Jordan of Ohio, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Lee Zeldin of New York, James Lankford of Oklahoma, ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Many of these figures shortly had reason to regret doing so: Over the weekend of its initial launch, a hacker successfully compromised a number of official GETTR accounts—including those belonging to Taylor Greene, Pompeo, Bannon, and Miller. The hacker told reporters it had taken him only about 20 minutes to successfully break in.

Hackers leveraged GETTR's API to scrape the email addresses of more than 85,000 users, including usernames, names and birthdays.

"When threat actors are able to extract sensitive information due to neglectful API implementations, the consequence is equivalent to a data breach and should be handled accordingly by the firm [and] examined by regulators," Alon Gal, the co-founder of cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock who reported the dataset, told TechCrunch.

Miller scoffed. "You know you're shaking things up when they come after you," he told Insider. "The problem was detected and sealed in a matter of minutes, and all the intruder was able to accomplish was to change a few user names. The situation has been rectified and we've already had more than half a million users sign up for our exciting new platform!"

The problems continued to mount, however. GETTR was also flooded with porn featuring Sonic the Hedgehog and hundreds of other accounts featuring hentai, furry porn, and stock photos of pudgy men in their underwear.

Casey Newton at The Verge notes that these right-wing "free speech" apps almost appear to be set up with the intention to make them fail. "Apps like Parler and GETTR offered their conservative users an attractive mirage: a free-speech paradise where they could say the things they couldn't say elsewhere," he writes. "It never seemed to occur to anyone that such a move would only select for the worst social media customers on earth, quickly turning the founders' dreams to ash."

Miller's claims notwithstanding, GETTR's content moderation is clearly unable to handle the kind of content it is guaranteed to attract. As Newton observes: "Most people will only spend so long in a virtual space in which they are surrounded by the worst of humanity."

Moreover, these social-media apps appear to be a kind of con job not intended necessarily to enrich its founders but to promote a right-wing narrative that is itself part of a larger grift.

As Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day put it:

I'm also beginning to wonder if all these apps are their own grift in a way. Loudly launch a site no one will ever use, claim it's a free speech sanctuary for Republicans, do the rounds on all the right-wing news outlets, and wait for it to fill up with the worst people on Earth, refuse to moderate it, wait for Apple to ban it from the App Store, and then go back to the right-wing news outlets and screech about liberal cancel culture impacting your ability to share hentai with white nationalist flat earthers or whatever.
US Recovers Over Half Of Ransom Paid To Colonial Pipeline Hackers

US Recovers Over Half Of Ransom Paid To Colonial Pipeline Hackers

Washington (AFP) - The US Justice Department announced Monday that it had recovered more than half of the $4.4 million paid by Colonial Pipeline to Russia-based ransomware extortionists Darkside, who had forced the shutdown of a major US fuel network. "Today, we turned the tables on Darkside by going after the entire ecosystem that fuels ransomware and digital extortion attacks, including criminal proceeds in the form of digital currency," said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. The seizure came one month after the group gave the US government a security scare by breaking into the computer s...

More Than A Million Dental Patients At Risk After Data Breach

More Than A Million Dental Patients At Risk After Data Breach

New reports from the Dental Care Alliance (DCA) has revealed that the information of more than one million dental patients is at risk after a cybersecurity attack back in October.

On October 11, the Dental Care Alliance discovered an ongoing attack from mid-September. Even though the organization was able to contain the attack by October 13, reports estimate that more than one million dental care patient records could have been breached. This includes important personal information like addresses, diagnoses, billing information, and more. News about the breach has become more widespread since the Dental Care Alliance began notifying those who might be impacted by the attack this week.

But what is the Dental Care Alliance? The business, based in Sarasota, FL, serves as a dental support organization. As such, they're affiliated with over 320 practices across 20 states, according to their website.

So far, the organization claims that there is no evidence that malicious acts have taken place in regard to patients' information. However, questions over lawsuits and remediation efforts have been brought up as the scope of the breach becomes more well-known.

According to David Quigley, who acts as general counsel for the DCA, the organization has reported the breach to all necessary regulatory bodies and the 1,004,304 patients who might have been impacted by mail.

"We will continue to do all that is necessary and appropriate to support and inform impacted individuals in the days ahead," Quigley explained.

However, more than 25 percent of orthodontic patients are over the age of 21 and countless other patients go to the dentist for routine check-ups. Information regarding family members and other dental patients may also be at risk.

A recent review of the attack concluded, however, that only 10 percent of bank accounts belonging to patients may have been viewed by the hackers or another unauthorized third party.

While this is devastating for the patients, it's also detrimental for the affected dental practices. One dental practice owner in Nebraska explains their situation:

"You are absolutely paralyzed in the same way as if you lost your location physically," explained Dr. Jessica Meeske to the American Dental Association.

While estimates show that more than four billion data breaches occurred in the first half of 2019 alone, a scale of this magnitude on one organization is far rarer.

It doesn't matter if you're among the one in five orthodontic patients who's over the age of 21 or someone who gets routine check-ups: this kind of breach has wide-reaching consequences. If you have questions about the breach, reach out to your dental services provider.