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| | | Apple Confirms the Apple Card Is Coming in August | | The Verge | The Apple Card, the company’s credit card that was announced at its services event this past spring, will begin accepting applications in August, the company confirmed during its 2019 third fiscal quarter earnings call. The Apple Card will come in both a digital and a physical, titanium card form. However, it won’t use a traditional 16-digit card number, CVV code, or expiration date as a personal identifier. Instead, it will generate those numbers randomly during each transaction to keep purchases secure. | | 100 Million Capital One Credit Card Applications Hacked: What You Need to Know (and Do Next) | | PCWorld | You can reset the “Days Since Hack” counter back to zero. On Monday night, Capital One revealed that more than 100 million customers had their personal information hacked, including credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, and contact information, as well as 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 linked bank account numbers of secured credit card customers. Here’s what happened and what you can do to protect yourself. | | Top 3 Enterprise SaaS Data Protection Trends | | Security Boulevard | In order to get more insight into cloud security and data protection trends, ESG (The Enterprise Strategy Group) surveyed 370 IT professionals at organizations in North America responsible for data protection for their organization. The #1 trend? SaaS data is incorrectly assumed to be secure. While SaaS applications are extremely secure, they cannot protect you from mishaps on your end or the rare, but possible downtime. The #2 trend? The major cause of SaaS data loss is human error. | | Microsoft Will Drop Skype for Business Online on July 31, 2021 | | ZDNet | Since 2017, when Microsoft announced its Teams group-chat service would replace Skype for Business Online, customers have been asking about the cut-over deadline. Microsoft officials finally shared that date yesterday. Skype for Business Online will be "retired" on July 31, 2021, officials said. |
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| | | What Is Password Spraying and How Can It Be Used Against You? | | MakeUseOf | When you think of password hacking, you probably imagine a hacker trying several hundred passwords on a single account. While this still happens, it’s not always what happens; sometimes a hacker will perform password spraying instead. MakeUseOf breaks down what password spraying is and what you can do to defend yourself. | | Syncing Problems With OneDrive on Windows 10? Here Are 10 Easy Fixes | | MakeUseOf | OneDrive is Microsoft’s cloud storage offering that is built into Windows 10. The fact that it’s free and has Office integration makes it a popular and easy choice for many. However, it can sometimes have trouble syncing your files. If you are experiencing that some or all of your Microsoft OneDrive files aren’t syncing, MakeUseOf put together easy solutions to help fix the problem. |
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