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| | | | | Microsoft and Google Join Facebook’s Legal Fight Against Infamous Spyware Vendor | | The Verge | A group of high profile tech companies including Microsoft, Google, Cisco, and VMWare have filed an amicus brief in support of Facebook’s legal action against NSO Group, Microsoft has announced. Facebook-owned WhatsApp sued the spyware vendor last year, alleging that its software was used to hack 1,400 devices via a vulnerability in the messaging service. | | The SaaS Explosion: Hidden Costs and Threats (eBook) | | BetterCloud Monitor | As your organization’s consumption of SaaS accelerates, so do the potential threats against your cloud-based environment and the associated costs of those threats. This essential IT guide explores the management and security pitfalls of SaaS. | | Microsoft: Nearly 85% of Consumers Now Use Windows Hello to Sign In to Windows 10 Devices | | MSPoweruser | Recently, Microsoft announced that the number of consumers using Windows Hello to sign in to Windows 10 devices instead of a password grew to 84.7 percent from 69.4 percent in 2019. Microsoft also highlighted the growing acceptance of passwordless among enterprise organizations. | | Microsoft, McAfee and Others Form a Ransomware Task Force | | Engadget | According to the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), which is one of the members, the group will assess current responses to ransomware, identify gaps in existing approaches and develop a roadmap "of concrete objectives and actionable milestones for high-level decision-makers." The task force will commission expert papers to help guide the roadmap. |
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| | | Writing Is the Most Important New Skill for Tech Workers. Here’s How to Build It | | Fast Company | Success in remote work hinges on communication, but it’s challenging. Most of us feel Zoom fatigue, and nearly a third of the American workforce struggles to communicate about their work in a remote setting. Clear writing could be the antidote—especially for engineers. | | How to Change Microsoft Office’s Default Save Location on Windows 10 | | How-To Geek | When you save a new document for the first time in Office 365 or Office 2019, Office asks where you want to save it. By default, Office suggests you save documents to Microsoft OneDrive online. Saving files in Microsoft Office is a pretty painless process, but you can make it even quicker by changing the default save location to your preferred folder. |
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| | | Best Practices for Doing a Google-Google Migration | | SaaSOps Community | Google-to-Google migrations are tricky—at least that's what I learned from this question. How do you get permissions to transfer over? And what do you do about 35(!) shared drives? Check out the conversation in the SaaSOps Community by clicking the link above. |
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