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For many people, making an appointment with the SEPE is hell. So there are already “managers” charging 99 euros to sneak you in

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Where you see something as unremarkable as an appointment with the SEPE, there are those who see something quite different: easy money. A juicy business that is cooked between networks, chats and platforms on-line of advertisements and that skirts the law to reach clients desperate to deal with the State. Its dynamics are very simple: managers appointments take advantage of the weaknesses of public administrations and their reservation systems to monopolize (free) appointments and then sell them. What do you urgently need to be attended to at the SEPE to process the unemployment benefit but there is no way to reserve an appointment on the official website? Do you need a procedure in Immigration? No problem. Pay and have an appointment tomorrow. five seconds. That’s how long it takes to find advertisements of people who offer to find and book appointments to carry out procedures at the SEPE. All (of course) in exchange for a payment that can range from 10 to 30 or even 100 euros. Your business it’s not entirely newjust as it is not the situation which they take advantage of: a cocktail of factors in which the staff cuts in the administration, failures in computer systems and the mischief of people willing to get rich by flouting the law and marketing a public service: prior appointments for citizens who need to make urgent arrangements, such as requesting unemployment benefits or presenting documents at the Immigration Office. “There were no appointments”. A few days ago elDiario.es published an article which gives an idea of ​​to what extent this has become chronic. illegal marketing of SEPE appointments, at least in part of Spain. The newspaper recounts the case of a 35-year-old woman, Sofía, who after losing her job did the most logical thing: go on the Public Employment Service website to request unemployment benefits. No luck. He did not find available appointments to go to the agency’s offices. Neither in Lleida (its province) nor in nearby areas. He tried it the next day with identical results. And on the other, and again on the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh day. Always without success. In total, he spent ten days in front of the computer, pressing the F5 key every so often in the hope of finding a free space. “It’s an abuse”. “I would have been willing to drive hours if necessary. But there was nothing at all,” confesses desperately Sofía, who saw how the deadline was consumed 15 business days that was available to request unemployment without losing benefit time. In the end she managed to get treated, but not thanks to a stroke of luck. She got the appointment through a friend’s contact, a stranger who, in exchange for 45 euros, scheduled an appointment for her in 48 hours. Maybe 45 euros seems like a lot of money for a free public service, but she herself recognizes There are those who charge up to 99 euros. “It’s an abuse.” How is it possible? For several factors. To start with the tensions in the administration. a few months ago The Country denounced the difficulties that citizens in Spain are having in getting appointments in the offices of the old INEM, especially those distributed along the Mediterranean coast, the islands and Madrid and Barcelona, ​​a phenomenon that is explained by the thinning of the workforce, the workload and failures of those they have already warned the unions. “Between 2022 and 2024 we have had 1,412 retirements. In 2025 we have lost 725 people,” laments in elDiario.es Manuel Galdeano, from the CSIF. From UGT they recognize that a service that should be provided by 12,000 personnel must be content with 7,300, which in their opinion translates into a work overload for the SEPE staff, but also a decrease in service to citizens. Taking advantage of the system. The other key that explains the ease with which people like the one who helped Sofía get appointments when the SEPE seems collapsed must be sought in the bowels of the system. Those who market with shifts They have their “tricks”such as bots and resources that allow them to automate searches and collect dozens of appointments daily. Then they just have to advertise their services on networks and chats and wait for vulnerable citizens to knock on their door. When that happens and they ‘hunt’ a desperate user, the managers appointments only have to cancel one of the many reservations they have made and request that space again, in seconds, with the personal data (name and surname, ID, postal code…) that the client has previously provided them. In exchange they charge 10, 20, 30, 40 or more euros via Bizum. In some cases almost 100 are required. Easy, simple… Ethical? Communication is online and clients are recruited through call centers, WhatsApp groups, social networks and advertising websites. In some case the managers dating sites advertise as companies and, assures elDiariothere are those who even try to appear more authoritative by using images of professional organizations without any permission. Their business relies mainly on the anxiety of users who need to contact the administration. Also in ignorance. The SEPE website allows, for example, to carry out a pre-application unemployment benefit that prevents users from losing days of unemployment even if it takes more than two weeks to get an in-person appointment. Is it something new? No. And perhaps that is the most curious thing. A quick search in the newspaper archive arrives to verify that the marketing with prior appointments with the administration It is not a new practice. In fact in 2020 the SEPE has already denounced before the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Barcelona the resale of appointments to resolve procedures in its offices, a practice that USO had warned about shortly before. Nor is it something that exclusively affects Employment. The same illicit business affects immigration services, a practice reported by officials and that has even led to police operations with dozens of arrested. In the case of the SEPE, … Read more

He paid his managers to contradict him, not to obey him.

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We tend to think of the CEO of a company or the leader of a team as the person in charge, who imposes its criteria and, basically, that person is the one who orders what his team should do. According to Steve Jobs, that is one of the worst mistakes of a leader. In the 90s, Steve Jobs shared a lesson 72-minute masterful presentation of his vision of what a management team should be like in a talk at MIT. Jobs paid his managers not to do what he said, but he paid them so that they would contradict him when I was wrong. 33 years later, his theory is still as valid today as it was in 1992. He didn’t pay them to prove him right. In his talk in front of MIT students, Steve Jobs explained that during his time at the head of NeXTafter his expulsion from Apple, hired very talented managers not to tell them what to do, but to get them to contribute their judgment about what decisions to make really. Steve emphasized that the value of the management team It’s not that he strictly abides by the CEO’s criteria.but to suggest other alternatives, even if these contradict the leader’s opinion, thus avoiding teams that limit themselves to saying “yes, boss” to everything. “I had never believed that if you are on the same management team and you think differently about something, then one has to convince the other to change their mind. Because look, when you do that you are paying someone to do what they think is right, and then you try to convince them to do what they don’t think is right. Sooner or later a conflict ends up breaking out,” Jobs assured the MIT students. According to Jobs, the best strategy to reach the correct decisionIt is not about managers giving in to others’ arguments about whether they are wrong or not. The key is to get them all together in a room and make a consensual decision in which everyone gives in a little, smoothing over the edges, but without giving up what they think is right. This idea is based on recognizing that well-paid managers must think independently, generating debates that avoid costly mistakes and promote better collective results. The NeXT Eight At NeXT, Jobs formed a team of eight managers who were in charge of precisely that: opposing him when his point of view was not appropriate and debating the important decisions of the company. This group did not debate minor day-to-day issues, where they had full decision-making capacity, but rather focused on critical issues for the company that allowed them advance aligned. “We pay people a lot of money and we expect them to tell us what to do. So you shouldn’t do certain things if there are people who don’t agree with it,” Jobs reflected to the students. According to Jobs, the “NeXT eight” They didn’t spend the day together debating decisions, but rather focused on the really important ones. “We can have about 25 things to decide on in a year, that’s not many,” Jobs insisted, because they knew exactly what decisions should be made by unifying common points of view, not the opinion of a single person, no matter how much that of the boss. In this way, they avoided future conflicts by ensuring that everyone involved in the execution shared the vision, strengthening the commitment and involvement of the group. His best school was Apple Although Apple was not Jobs’ only business success (he was in charge of convert to Pixar into the animation giant that it is today), without a doubt the company with the bitten apple logo was his best business school. During his time at Apple, Jobs learned to adopt a long-term leadership vision with your team. To do this, he had to repress his famous tendency to micromanage his employees by resisting the impulse to correct errors immediately so that the teams they made mistakes and they would learn for themselves. “When I see something that is not being done well, my first instinct is not to fix it. In other words, we are building a team that is going to do great things over the next decade, not just this year,” said the Apple founder. John Fitzgerald Kennedy summarized in one sentence what Steve Jobs wanted to convey to the MIT students who attended that conference in 1992: “An intelligent man is one who knows how to be smart enough to hire people smarter than him”, although Jobs had probably added the tagline “…and he listens to them.” In Xataka | Steve Jobs was always very critical of Microsoft designs. His recipe to improve them: that Bill Gates took LSD Image | Bernard Gotfryd (The United States Library of Congress)

A single click and goodbye to our passwords. This is the vulnerability that affects the extensions of several managers

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We trust our Password managers as if they were digital safes. But, According to expert Marek Tóthjust visit the wrong website and click where it does not correspond to put that armor at risk. The technique presented in Def with 33 does not point to applications, but to extensions we use daily In the browser. In his tests, he ensures that this gesture can activate an information theft system without the user perceiving it. The research, made public in one of the main international conferences of computer security, documents how eleven extensions of password managers could be manipulated to filter data. Toth states that he notified the finding of manufacturers in April 2025 and that in mid -August several still still had corrections. The study includes practical tests, websites designed to demonstrate the failure and an estimate of the scope: about 40 million potentially exposed active facilities. How the attack works and why it affects you The technique described by Tóth is based on hiding the elements that the extensions insert on the page so that the user interacts with them without seeing it. With minimal changes in opacity or overlapthe attacker gets that The self -fulfilling is activated in the background. And there are several ways to achieve it, from manipulating the root element of the extension to altering the entire body of the site, in addition to variants by overlap. The most delicate scenario appears when a trap website is not necessary, but it is enough to take advantage of a legitimate page with a security failure. In those cases, he explains, the attacker can capture login credentials. The risk increases because many managers fill data not only in the original domain, but also in subdomains, which expands the attack surface without the user noticing it. According to data published by Tóth and collected by Socketon August 19, 1Password, Bitwarden, ENPASS, were continued as vulnerable Icloud PasswordsLastpass and Logmeonce. On August 20, Socket updated that Bitwarden had sent version 2025.8.0 with a patch, pending distribution in extensions. Among the managers who did apply corrective measures are NordPass, Dashlane, Keeper, Protonass and Roboform. Of course, this list can vary at any time if other companies publish arrangements after the dissemination. Extension of password manager for the browser The manufacturers reaction was disparate. Socket points out that 1Password and Lastpass classified the ruling as “informative”, a category that usually implies absence of immediate changes. Bitwarden, ENPASS and Apple (Icloud Passwords) confirmed that They work in updateswhile Logmeonce did not respond to contact attempts. Some companies admitted the existence of risk, but related to external vulnerabilities at the sites visited. While some developers decide how to act, Toth and Socket team agree that there are practical measures to reduce exposure. One of the most effective is to deactivate the manual self -fulfilling and resort to copying and paste. It is also recommended to configure the automatic filling only for exact URL coincidences, preventing it from working in subdomains. In chromium -based browsers, the use of the extension can be limited with the access option “When clicking”, so that the user explicitly authorizes each use. The researcher shows how it is possible to overlap invisible elements on the page to deceive the user and press the password manager without realizing it Not everything is as immediate as clicking and losing everything. For the attack to succeed, the extension must be unlocked, the browser has not restarted and the user interact at the right time. In addition, the analysis focused only on eleven extensions. There is no evidence that All solutions The market is vulnerable, although the expert warns that the pattern can be repeated in other types of extensions. The weak point is in the SUNthe internal structure used by websites to organize buttons, forms or menus. Password managers insert their elements there, and if a malicious page manages to move them, hide or force them, the user can end up clicking without realizing it. That same risk extends to other extensions such as cryptocurrency wallets or notes applications. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 In Xataka | How to change all our passwords according to three cybersecurity experts

My keys are random characters and I have a hard time remembering them. Unless you use one of these password managers

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Do you have the same password for all your accounts or do you use a different? The truth is that the second is the best we can do in the event that some website has some vulnerability, but that can leave us with a problem: remember all passwords. In fact, it has happened to me, so it can be very useful to have a good Password manager. But … What is a password manager? A password manager is an independent program that is responsible for safely storing the passwords that we choose. In this way, once we register it, it will be saved and allow us to log in to the account without writing the password again. There are free services, but also other payment that offer a greater number of functions and, of course, of better advantages. In this article we will talk about Some of the best password managers, with their prices and differences. Proton Pass If we are going to choose a password manager, Better to do it by taking a discount, right? Proton Pass not only offers different monthly plans with its peculiarities, but also right now has a discount on all its subscription plans: Pass plus monthly by 4.99 euros a month instead of 4.99 euros. Annual Proton Plus by 2.99 euros a month instead of 12.99 euros. Pass Family by 4.99 euros per month instead of 6.99 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review All of them have some similar tools, such as cloud storageextreme end encryption, the possibility of saving passwords or email encryption, calendar, cloud storage and VPN service. Here we leave you a table with some of the differences between the subscription plans: Pass plus monthly Annual Pass Pass Pass Family Tools Unlimited alias of Hide-My-Email Integrated 2FA authenticator Safe link exchange Unlimited credit cards Dark Web monitoring Advanced Accounts Protection Your personalized domain for alias Additional mailboxes for alias Unlimited alias of Hide-My-Email Integrated 2FA authenticator Safe link exchange Unlimited credit cards Dark Web monitoring Advanced Accounts Protection Your personalized domain for alias Additional mailboxes for alias 6 Pass Plus accounts Administrator panel for your family Price 4.99 euros / month 2.99 euros / month 4.99 euros / month Obviously, Proton Family offers greater users. Yes, it is more expensive, but it can be interesting if what we are looking for is to use the service on different devices. Pass Plus monthly can be interesting to prove the annual plus tools and Pass has the best value for money by staying the monthly for half that with respect to Pass Plus monthly. PUREVPN PUREVPNas its name indicates, it is mainly a service that offers a VPN tool, although it also has many other security related, such as the password manager. Taking into account that the standard service does not offer the password manager, we would have two modalities: Pure VPN Plus for $ 2.96 per month (2.52 euros to change), with VPN service and password manager. PUREVPN MAX for $ 3.33 per month (2.83 euros to change), with VPN service, password manager, Dark Web monitoring, unlimited ESIM data and data eliminator. * Some price may have changed from the last review Bitwarden Another option that can be interesting is Bitwardena password manager who, although it is true that it has a free modality, has two subscription modalities with more tools. Of course, it is more focused on companies than individuals, although that does not mean that it cannot be useful: The biggest difference between Bitwarden Teams and Bitwarden EnterpriseIn addition to the price, Enterprise offers a family plan and recovery administrator. Bitwarden Teams for 4 dollars a month (3.40 euros to change). Bitwarden Enterprise for $ 6 per month (5.10 euros to change). * Some price may have changed from the last review Dashlane Finally, Dashlane It is another service that, despite being more expensive, also offers a good assortment of tools. Mainly it is a password manager service, but depending on the subscription modality that we choose we can have more or less functions, although in this case they are more focused on companies: Password administrator by 8 euros per month (with annual billing). It includes access protection of employees with unlimited passwords and optimization of security controls. Omnix by 11 euros per month (with annual billing). Includes password administrator, intelligent alerts and additional protection against Phishing. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Linus Mimietz in UnspashProton Pass, Purevpn, Bitwarden, Dashlane In Xataka | Why it is dangerous to connect to public wifis and what you should do to protect yourself In Xataka | Antivirus in Windows 11: What are, differences between free and payment and the best for your PC

A list of the best paid CEOs leaves us a figure of how the salary of managers has risen since 1978: 1,085%

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The Wall Street Journal publishedThe list of the best paid CEOs of 2024. The list itself already presented some curiosities. For example, the fact that, surprisingly, CEO of great technology that accumulate stock capitations Superior to the GDP of some countries, they are not found in the top positions of this list. However, its publication has put the table on the table Huge salary difference which exists between the figure of the company’s executive director and the average salary of its employees. A study of Economic Policy Institute He has investigated The evolution of this difference and has discovered that, since 1978, CEO wages have increased 1,085%. He Salary of its employeeson the other hand, it has only done so by a fraction of that percentage. The CEO who won the most in 2024. According to the list published by The Wall Street Journal Based on public remuneration data of the companies of the S&P 500, the best paid executive in 2024 was Rick Smith, CEO of Axon Enterprise that bases their business on the manufacture of electricity weapons of defense or taser. Smith received no less than 164.53 million dollars in 2023. Just behind, we find some old acquaintances of this type of listings. Lawrence Cup, as CEO of General Electric pocketed 88.95 million, or Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone that received a bonus of 84 million dollars. To find What some of the technological CEOs chargedwe must go down to the fourth place that Tim Cook occupies after receiving a salary bonus of 74.61 million dollars. Rico worker, poor worker. Beyond the salary that each company wants assign its managers For the achievements, there is the background of the salary gap between the managers of those companies and their employees. In this case we are not talking about a senior manager should charge the same as its employees, but, proportionally, the remuneration of managers have increased to a greater extent among members of the board of directors than among their workers. In your report, The researchersof the Economic Policy Institute They point out that between 1978 and 2023, the executive directors of the main companies of the S&P500 have increased their remuneration by 1089%, while the average salary of their employees has done so in 24%. Exponential growth from 90s. The data reflects that the increase in these remuneration to managers has not been linear and progressive, but shot between 90 and 2000, remaining at those levels since then. Putting the focus between the salary of the CEO and the salary average of its employees, between 1964 and 1978 an executive director charged between 15.4 and 23 times the salary of its employees. On the other hand, between 1978 and 1990 that figure amounted up to 44.9 times and, from 1995, that figure is triggered until reaching levels of 398 times the salary of its employees reached in 2000. Since then, the successive economic and financial crises have made me make that That figure oscillates between 330.2 times and 190.6 times higher than the average salary of its employees. The elite inside the elite. This increase has not only occurred among the general labor mass of the workforce, but the CEOs have become a kind of elite among the elite. The study analyzes the evolution of CEO remuneration With respect to salaries of 0.1% that charges the most in companies, and here they have also marked differences following the same pattern as with the rest of the workforce. Between 1964 and 1990, the CEO charged between 2.6 and 3.1 times more than 0.1% of better paid employees of its workforce. However, from the 90s that difference is triggered until reaching 9.2 times in the 2000s, and reaching 9.4 times the salary of the best paid employees registered in 2021. What counts is your influence. The authors of the study suggest that the astronomical salary increase of the CEO is not due to their worth making business decisions, but responds to a consideration for the weight of the manager on the Board of Directors. How much greater is its influence And power at that board is its salary. “There should be meetings of the Board of Directors where people ask: ‘Can we afford to pay less to our executive director?’ assuredto The Washington PostDean Baker, co -founder of the Institute in charge of the report. An example: Elon Musk in Tesla and his enormous capacity to influence a board of directors formed by personal friends, former collaborators and even his brother Kimbal. Thanks to this ability to influence the Board of Directors, the CEO can negotiate more generous remuneration than when they submit to the scrutiny of people without direct linking. According to the authors of the study, this capacity for influence may have made the CEO establish salary increases for faster managers, “concentrating income in the highest and leaving less profits for common workers.” A salary detached from the results. At this point, it is easy to think that this increase is due to the fact that the CEO of those companies They have been geniuses that have taken companies to their best historical dimensions and that is why they are rewarded. However, the data They tell us something else And the researchers confirm “the salary increase of executive directors does not reflect an increase in the value of skills or in the contributions to the productivity of companies,” says the EPI report. In 2024, for example, the best paid manager was Hock Tan, CEO of Broadcom, with 161.74 million dollars. The Board of Directors justified its salary bonus because the company had managed to double its stock market value. However, Badrinarayanan Kothandaraman, executive director of Enfase Energy, received compensation of $ 19.52 million while his company left 50.1% of its value. Bag balls. To try to correct that dynamic, from the end of the 90s and 2000, many companies assigned company shares As part of the salary of its managers. The study data reveal that, in … Read more

This time there are no layoffs but an increase in bonus for managers

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Mark Zuckerberg continues with his plan to speed up the goal structure and prepare it to face the challenge that his AI presents. One of the most controversial measures of that plan has been the 5% of your workforcebut not the only one. In one Corporate communication At the SEC, goal confirmed “an increase in the percentage of objective bonus” in the Annual bonus plan for executives of the company. With this new bonus plan, Meta managers could get a bonus of up to 200% of their base salary, instead of a maximum of 75% of their salary they could reach so far. More incentives for executives, less for employees The new bonus plan presented by the company would not affect the remuneration of Mark Zuckerberg which, as CEO and founder, receives A symbolic salary that is complemented with A personalized bonus that compensates. The increase in executive bonuses arrives at a time of tension between the template after the dismissal of goal to which low performance was attributed in their work. However, as the company itself confirmed, these layoffs occur in the context of strategic change to focus on the development of AI, Not due to economic problems. Something that confirmed the 21% increase in the benefits that Goal communicatedJust a few weeks ago. The Board of Directors approved this increase in Bonus for managers with the aim of being more competitive at the salary level “was in or below the 15th of the total compensation in cash of executives who held similar positions. After this increase, the total compensation in cash for the appointed executive officials (except the Executive Director) falls approximately in the 50th of the target compensation of the peer group “, can be read in the document presented by the finish line to the target to the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). This increase also coincides with the announcement of the 10% trim in rewards For shares -based employees that he published he Financial Times last week. This measure affects, to a different extent, tens of thousands of employees who will receive less actions as a complement to their salary, just at the time these actions have risen 47% during the past year. In Xataka | Trump has made great technological ones change, but not for ideology: they are companies behaving like companies Image | Flickr (Techcrunch)

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