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| | | 773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old | | KrebsOnSecurity | "My inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were posted to a hacking forum. A story in The Guardian breathlessly dubbed it 'the largest collection ever of breached data found,'" writes security journalist Brian Krebs. But in an interview with the apparent seller, KrebsOnSecurity learned that it is not even close to the largest gathering of stolen data, and that it is at least two to three years old. | | Microsoft No Longer Sees Cortana as an Alexa or Google Assistant Competitor | | The Verge | Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant has fallen behind Google Assistant and Alexa over the past year, and now the software maker is taking a different approach to the competition. Speaking to journalists at a media event earlier this week, CEO Satya Nadella revealed that Microsoft no longer sees Cortana as a competitor to Alexa or Google Assistant. | | I Can Get and Crack Your Password Hashes from Email | | CSO | Malicious hackers can use a simple trick to get your Windows computer to authenticate to a remote server that captures your password hash — just by sending you an email. Take these steps to test for the vulnerability. | | Twitter Admits Bug Exposed Some Android Users' Protected Tweets for Years | | CNET | A Twitter glitch left some Android users' protected tweets exposed since 2014. The security flaw disabled the "Protect your Tweets" option for some people who changed their settings, such as updating the email address associated with the protected account, between Nov. 3, 2014 and Jan. 14, 2019, the company wrote in its Help Center Thursday. |
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| | | Switching to Docs from Word | | G Suite Learning Center | If you’re coming from Microsoft Word, learn how features such as sharing, real-time collaboration, and version control in Word work in Google Docs. | | How to Use @Mention in Comments to Tag Someone for Feedback | | Microsoft Office Help & Training | When you comment on a document, presentation, or spreadsheet and use the @-sign with someone's name, the person you mention receives mail with a link to your comment. Clicking the link brings them into the document and into the conversation. |
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