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| | | When Your Employees Post Passwords Online | | KrebsOnSecurity | Storing passwords in plaintext online is never a good idea, but employees are doing just that using online collaboration tools like Trello.com. KrebsOnSecurity spent the past week using Google to discover unprotected personal Trello boards that listed employer passwords and other sensitive data, information that may be indexed by search engines and available to anyone with a Web browser. One of the boards they found belonged to Uber employees, and it included passwords needed to view a host of internal Google Documents and images. | | Windows 10: We're Going to Kill Off Passwords and Here's How, Says Microsoft | | ZDNet | Microsoft wants to banish the use of passwords to log into Windows devices, and has showcased some of the new technologies it wants to use to make this happen. Calling passwords "inconvenient, insecure, and expensive," they said the goal was to provide user credentials that cannot be cracked, breached, or phished. So what are they replacing passwords with? | | Modernizing IT with Cloud Native Patterns – Part 3 | | BetterCloud Monitor | Chris Borte, director of information technology at InsideTrack, made it a priority to develop an IT infrastructure that would be impervious to ransomware. The answer? Cloud native architecture. In this final installment of our blog series on the advantages of going cloud native, he offers guidance for organizations that are ready to modernize their IT system and go cloud native. Here are his essential tips on how to get started. |
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| | | 5 Google Sheets Features You Should Know | | How-To Geek | You’re probably familiar with the basics of Google Sheets, but Google’s spreadsheet offering boasts loads of features that aren’t obvious at first glance. Here are some favorites from How-To Geek. | | This iOS Trick Makes it 100% Less Annoying to Move Apps Around | | Lifehacker | "Stop the presses," writes David Murphy. "One of the main reasons why I don’t organize my iPhone’s apps is because it takes too much time to long-press on an app, wait for it to wiggle, move it to a folder, and repeat the process for its 60 other friends. But thankfully, there’s a much, much easier way to shuffle around your apps." |
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| | | What #GDPRjokes Tell Us About the Coming Regulations | | CIO | The hashtag #GDPRjokes is currently trending on Twitter. Here is a flavor: “My dog has no nose." "How does he smell?" "I don’t know, he hasn’t opted-in to me contacting him.” The jokes are mostly pretty terrible, but they do bring a little lightness to what can be a rather dull topic. But they are also illuminating — not just because they refer to some aspects of the rules — but because they are there at all. |
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| | | Microsoft Releases a "Windows Command Reference" For Over 250 Console Commands | | BleepingComputer | OK, here's your long read for the week: a 948-page PDF recently released from Microsoft titled the "Windows Command Reference" that contains documentation on over 250 Windows console commands. "For those who want to get a good understanding on how to use Windows console commands or just like to have easy to reference documentation at hand, this is a great document to add to your collection," writes Lawrence Abrams. For each command, Microsoft has included a detailed description of the command, their command line arguments, and examples. |
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| | | Automatically Provision Users with Six Additional Apps | | G Suite Updates | Google is adding auto-provisioning support for six new applications: DeskPro, Federated Directory, Front App, ScreenSteps, ThousandEyes, and Trello. | | Rich Text Is Here: Communicate Clearly with Formatted Text, Emojis, and More | | Asana Blog | Text formatting, emojis, and @-mentioning can help you communicate your tone, organize information, emphasize specific details, and link to other work so teammates have the context they need. The new rich text formatting menu appears in your tasks and comments so you can communicate clearly, keep work connected, and add a thumbs up emoji. | | Eliminate Silos With Smartsheet for Workplace by Facebook | | Smartsheet Blog | Smartsheet is excited to announce Smartsheet for Workplace. Workplace by Facebook is a dedicated and secure space for companies to connect, communicate, and collaborate using familiar Facebook features such as News Feed, groups, messages, and events. Now, with Smartsheet for Workplace, you can choose to receive Smartsheet notifications directly in Workplace. |
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