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| | | Dozens of Companies Leaked Sensitive Data Thanks to Misconfigured Box Accounts | | TechCrunch | Security researchers have found dozens of companies inadvertently leaking sensitive corporate and customer data because staff are sharing public links to files in their Box enterprise storage accounts that can be easily discovered. (Worried about the safety of your data? BetterCloud solves for this exact problem. See this week's Product Tip Tuesday for a full rundown on how BetterCloud could have prevented these leaks.) | | Product Tip Tuesday: How to Automatically Detect & Remediate Misconfigured Box Settings | | BetterCloud Monitor | In light of today's news that dozens of companies inadvertently leaked sensitive data due to misconfigured Box accounts, we have a special Product Tip Tuesday: Box Edition. Many users share Box files and folders publicly without realizing the security implications. Fortunately, BetterCloud has a solution to help manage and secure your Box files and folders at scale. When a Box file or folder is shared externally or publicly, you can receive alerts and automatically remediate it. | | Adobe Is Finally Killing Shockwave Player for Good | | Gizmodo | A specific era of the world wide web will come to an end next month when Adobe officially discontinues its Shockwave multimedia platform. You might want to get in a final round in your favorite browser-based game—but, more than anything, you should use this moment to delete Shockwave from your computer once and for all. | | Closing the Gap in SaaS Security [Webinar] | | BetterCloud | Everyone knows SaaS apps are great for users but a potential nightmare for IT and security. Don’t miss tomorrow’s webinar at 12pm ET with experts from Okta and BetterCloud and learn what you can do right now to close the gap in SaaS security. |
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| | | How to Create Dropbox-Style Links in iCloud Drive | | Cult of Mac | If you keep your stuff in Dropbox, it’s easy to grab a link to a file or a folder. Then you can send that link to another person or store it in, say, your to-do list so you can quickly open it with a click. You can even grab the link inside the iOS Files app. But if you use iCloud, this simple task is no longer simple. But all is not lost. You can actually grab a link to any file stored in your iCloud Drive—and use it in any app you please. | | How to Install and Manage Extensions in Chrome | | How-To Geek | One of the best things about Google Chrome is the ability to extend its capabilities by adding a myriad of extensions to help improve functionality, usability, privacy, and productivity. Here’s how to install and manage your Google Chrome extensions. |
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| | | Mark Zuckerberg’s Plans to Capitalize on Facebook’s Failures | | The New Yorker | Facebook has lost fifteen million users in the United States since 2017. While Zuckerberg’s blog post can be read as a response to this loss of faith, it is also a strategic move to capitalize on the social-media platform’s failures. |
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| | | Delete Your Conversation History in Hangout Chat | | G Suite Updates | You’ll now be able to delete your conversation history of 1:1 direct messages in Hangouts Chat. These deletions apply to 1:1 conversations between classic Hangouts and Hangouts Chat in both directions. Please note, you’re only deleting your copy of the conversation history. Other users will still be able to see the chat. |
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