2020-05-15

1. Data Security & Privacy SmartBrief

🧡 Security company offers tips to guard against new malware

guard against:  to try to keep (something) from happening 

eg. Clean the wound to guard against infection.

malware: 恶意软件, software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems.

review yesterday's word: ransomware, 涉及到勒索钱财

🧡 Number of records breached hits new high

breach: n. broken promise or rule, an act of breaking a law, promise, agreement, or relationship.

v. to break a law, promise, or relatioship.

sentence: number of records 主语 (breached 形容主语) hits动词 [new high 状态]

2. SmartBrief on Main Street

🧡Don't run afoul of internet sales tax requirements

run afoul of (someone or something):To be in severe disagreement, trouble, or difficulty with someone or something; to be at odds with someone or something, especially due to disobeying rules or laws.

eg. Ms. Banks has run afoul of this university for the last time. She is no longer welcome here!

ALSO: it sometimes means come into conflict with sth

eg. if you keep parking illegally, you run afoul of the police.

3. SmartBrief on Leadership

🧡If your dog is misbehaving, it could be puberty

puberty: the period during which adolescents reach sexual maturity and become capable of reproduction ( 繁殖) . 青春期