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| | | | | Garmin Paid for WastedLocker Ransomware Decryption Key | | ITProPortal | Fitness giant Garmin paid out for a WastedLocker decryption key after a ransomware attack encrypted its systems and crippled its services. The firm suffered a worldwide service outage on July 23, which prevented users from uploading exercise data to Garmin Connect and also affected aviation navigation service FlyGarmin. | | IT Considerations for a Remote World: How Tech Companies View DLP & Vulnerabilities | | BetterCloud | With the shift to remote work this year, securing data has become top of mind for companies everywhere. Your users are now likely relying even more heavily on SaaS apps—collaborating and sharing data in new ways. And because SaaS is the system of record today, your organization’s sensitive data is in these SaaS apps. | | AWS Adds Database On-Ramp to Its Arm-Powered Instances | | The Register | RDS is not a database, instead offering database administration and automation features such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. AWS pitches the service as letting IT shops focus on applications rather than infrastructure. | | BlackBerry Releases New Security Tool for Reverse-Engineering PE Files | | ZDNet | Named PE Tree, this is a new Python-based app for Linux, Mac, and Windows that can be used to reverse-engineer and analyze the internal structure of Portable Executable (PE) files -- a common file that malware authors have used to hide malicious payloads. |
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| | | 5 Ways to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Habits With Technology | | MakeUseOf | Some people believe it takes 21 days doing a task repeatedly, others think it takes 66 days. And there’s the science of willpower, emotions, feedback loops, and other factors involved. But the bottom line is to stick with it, and that’s what these websites, apps, and online courses will help you do. | | How to Set Up Recurring Reminders on a Mac | | How-To Geek | If you find yourself needing to be reminded about regularly occurring tasks, you can easily schedule a repeating reminder using the Reminders app on your Mac. These reminders will pop up in your Notifications section at the correct time. Here’s how to set them up. |
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| | | Take Your Communications to the Next Level With New Offerings in Microsoft Teams | | Microsoft 365 Blog | Communication systems across the world are evolving to support customers’ changing needs. As our customers are mastering using Teams for group meetings, they want to increase their reach, and use the same familiar tool to deliver online meetings and events at a much broader scale. Naturally, this scale requires both structure and admin control, to achieve a more professional, seamless, compliant experience. |
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