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| | | Millions of Passengers Hit in Worst Ever Airline Data Hack | | Bloomberg | Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. said a hacker accessed personal information of 9.4 million customers, becoming the target of the world’s biggest airline data breach. This personal information included names, nationalities, dates of birth, telephone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, about 860,000 passport numbers, credit card numbers, and more. | | Requested by IT, Built for IT: 8 New BetterCloud Features | | BetterCloud Monitor | Ask and you shall receive. Here at BetterCloud, we've been working hard to answer the feature requests you’ve told us are important to you. We’re thrilled to announce eight enhancements that we released earlier this month at Altitude, our annual customer conference, in Denver. This includes features like Time-based Roles, On-demand Workflows, MFA policies, last login reporting, and more! | | Want to Find the Biggest Cloud Security Threat? Look in the Mirror [Q&A] | | BetaNews | "The vast majority of all the known cloud data breaches to date have been caused by configuration errors, which is a polite way of saying human error or lack of knowledge is at fault... In fact, configuration errors have become so common in cloud-based migrations and application deployments that, many times, cybercriminals don't even bother with sophisticated attacks; they simply look for gaping holes in security defenses due to misconfigurations," says Zach Malone, security engineer at FireMon. (Here at BetterCloud, we've been talking about configuration errors in SaaS apps for a looong time. We see it all too often. It's why we built BetterCloud to listen for any risky changes in application configurations and then remediate them with automated workflows.) | | Kuo Predicts New iPad Mini 5, Airpower Launch in Late 2018 or Early 2019, More | | 9to5Mac | Apple's big October 30th event is right around the corner, and reliable supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities has some newsworthy predictions. For Apple’s event tomorrow, Kuo expects Apple to unveil several hardware revisions: Two new USB-C equipped iPad Pro updates with better displays, a 'new-design' Apple Pencil for the updated iPad Pro hardware, and at least three new Macs including a 'low-price' MacBook and updated Mac mini and iMac processors," writes Zac Hall. |
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| | | How to Edit PDFs in Microsoft Word | | PCWorld | While previous versions of Word let you save a document as a PDF, Word 2016 allows you to open an Adobe formatted file, modify it, and then re-save it back to the PDF format without using Acrobat. Microsoft calls this new feature PDF Reflow, and here's how it works with a file containing text and an image. | | Fascinating Gmail, YouTube, and Maps Tips from Top Google Employees | | BGR | Some of Google’s top brass put together a collection of tips users might find handy. |
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| | | SaaS Updates Summary: October 22 – October 26 | | BetterCloud Monitor | Google is adding new Jamboard logs to the Admin console. It’s also adding an option to export a CSV file of room insights data from the Admin console. In Dropbox news, the new Dropbox Paper Timelines feature lets you map out every step of a project and keep everyone on the same page. |
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