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| | | New Cold Boot Attack Unlocks Disk Encryption On Nearly All Modern PCs | | The Hacker News | Security researchers have revealed a new attack to steal passwords, encryption keys and other sensitive information stored on most modern computers, even those with full disk encryption. The attack is a new variation of a traditional Cold Boot Attack, which has been around since 2008 and lets attackers steal information that briefly remains in the memory (RAM) after the computer is shut down. | | Everything Apple Announced: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, Apple Watch 4 | | CNET | This year's launch event unveiled the pricey new iPhones, and the new Apple Watch Series 4 takes on some serious health monitoring. | | How Hackers Slipped by British Airways' Defenses | | Wired | British Airways disclosed a data breach impacting customer information from roughly 380,000 booking transactions made between August 21 and September 5 of this year. The company said that names, addresses, email addresses, and sensitive payment card details were all compromised. Now, researchers from the threat detection firm RiskIQ have shed new light on how the attackers pulled off the heist. | | Activity-based Alerts: Giving IT More Granularity and Control | | BetterCloud Monitor | You spoke, we listened. At our annual customer conference last year, the number one feature you requested was activity-based alerts. These are alerts for things like suspicious user logins or the downloading of confidential files. So we built it. So far we've released alerts for Okta, Dropbox, and G Suite, with more on the way for Box, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Activity-based alerts are the next frontier for companies securing mission critical SaaS apps. Here's how they give IT more control and insights than ever before. |
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| | | 10 Highest-Paying IT Job Skills | | InformationWeek | As companies embrace digital transformation, they are finding that they need employees who understand emerging technologies like blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics. In addition, digital transformation is driving employers to seek out staff members who can see the big picture and recommend large-scale changes to the way IT operates that could make the company more profitable. |
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| | | Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work | | PCWorld | "Smartphone makers, it’s time to have that come-to-Apple moment, where we tell you that it’s time to put the 3.5mm analog headset jack back on the phone — at least until you get your USB-C audio act in order. After plugging in a fistful of USB-C dongles and USB-C headsets into a stack of USB-C phones, I’ve discovered that it’s a mess, especially for third-party headsets. Here's why," writes Gordon Mah Ung. |
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| | | SaaS Updates Summary: September 10 – September 14 | | BetterCloud Monitor | Farewell Inbox, we hardly knew ye. Google announced it’s shutting down Inbox by Gmail at the end of March 2019. Other G Suite announcements include: 1) the Gmail Offline Chrome app will be removed later this year, 2) G Suite Enterprise users can now live stream Hangouts Meet meetings, 3) a new content manager role is coming to Team Drives, 4) nine third-party apps are being added to the G Suite pre-integrated SAML apps catalog. Plus, there were announcements from Zendesk, Atlassian, and Okta. |
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