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| | | Google Says Nest’s Secret Microphone Was ‘Never Intended to Be a Secret’ | | TechCrunch | Google said there's absolutely, positively nothing to worry about the secret microphone in your Nest Secure smart home hub that it didn’t tell you about. Nope, not at all. Just an oversight, said Google. No need to be alarmed. Everything is just fine. | | Severe Vulnerabilities Uncovered in Popular Password Managers | | ZDNet | A new study investigating the true security posture of password storage services has uncovered a swathe of vulnerabilities which can lead to the theft of valuable user credentials — but this does not mean you should abandon your favorite password manager any time soon. | | Microsoft Expands AccountGuard to Help Europe Prep for Cyberattacks | | Dark Reading | A recent wave of cybercrime has targeted organizations with employees in Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, and Serbia. | | NoRelationship Phishing Attack Dances Around Microsoft Office 365 Email Filters | | ZDNet | Researchers have described a new phishing attack which is able to bypass Microsoft malicious file filters. On Tuesday, cybersecurity firm Avanan said the attack, dubbed NoRelationship, uses a link parsing weakness in email scanning products to hide malicious links. |
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| | | Prevent Procrastination With This Chrome Extension | | Lifehacker | "I’ve found myself in a vicious cycle. Whenever I have free time to kill, I’ll rotate through the same, stale list of websites, sucking up whatever new content comes along to relieve me of my boredom. I’ll bounce between Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, and Gmail until I can finally remind myself that this is dumb," says author David Murphy. Let this Chrome extension help you curb this bad habit. | | How to Sort Values in Microsoft Excel | | How-To Geek | Excel has “Sort A to Z” and “Sort Z to A” features that let you sort values alphabetically or numerically, and a “Custom Sort” feature that lets you sort using multiple criteria. Here’s how to use them. |
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