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| | | iOS 12, MacOS Mojave, and Group FaceTime: Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2018 | | CNET | Here's the lowdown on all the new features you'll be seeing in your Apple devices. | | Google Groups Are Leaking Your Sensitive Emails: Here’s How To Fix It | | Fossbytes | If you are using Google Groups, you need to check your privacy settings right now and make sure that the configuration doesn’t leak any sensitive information. This message comes from Kenna Security which found that nearly one-third of 9,600 public Google Groups leaked sensitive information in emails sent through the platform. The security firm found such public groups held by many prominent websites, including Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, universities, newspapers, and even U.S. government agencies. | | Here’s What We Found in One Customer’s SaaS Environment That Caused Their IT Director to Say “Nooooo” | | BetterCloud Monitor | And on a very similar note ... the widespread adoption of SaaS apps is creating new risks and ways to expose data. Unbeknownst to IT, these blind spots lie undiscovered below the surface, waiting like a dormant volcano to erupt. Over the last few months at BetterCloud, we’ve uncovered major blind spots during dozens of implementation meetings with new customers, and what we found in their SaaS environments stunned many IT teams. Here's what we discovered. | | New Gmail Interface to Roll Out to Everyone in July | | Android Police | The new Gmail web interface has been available for over a month now, but it's still in preview and it's an opt-in affair. However, the new UI will roll out to all G Suite users in July. When the new interface launches in July, G Suite administrators will have three options: immediately transition their users to the new UI (with an option to opt out), allow their users to opt into the new UI at the time of their choice, or wait about four weeks until their users are allowed to opt into the new UI. The last option will be the default setting. |
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| | | Microsoft Is Buying GitHub. Now It Has to Convince GitHub’s Users to Trust It. | | Slate | Microsoft is acquiring GitHub, the largest code repository in the world, for $7.5 billion, the companies announced yesterday. GitHub, an online community for software developers to collaborate and share code, is host to a community of 28 million developers who maintain a total of 85 million code repositories. When news broke that the acquisition had gone through Sunday night, developers in the open source community started to grumble. “Clients don’t trust Microsoft, I don’t trust Microsoft, and one way or another they are gonna find a way to ruin things. Rip github," tweeted one programmer Sunday. |
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| | | Google Mobile Management Support for Hangouts Meet on iOS | | G Suite Updates | On June 19th, 2018, Google Mobile Management will begin rolling out support for Hangouts Meet on iOS. Currently, G Suite users in domains with advanced mobile device management enabled can use the Hangouts Meet iOS app without first installing the device policy profile. Following the launch, these users will be required to install the device policy profile (if they haven’t already) in order to continue using Hangouts Meet on their iOS devices. | | Timeline for Moving to the New Gmail | | G Suite Updates | Google recently introduced an Early Adopter Program (EAP) for the new Gmail, with new capabilities like Gmail offline and nudging. To prepare you and your organization for the general availability (GA) launch, they're providing additional details on the rollout schedule. | | Bring Teams Together with New G Suite Integrations | | G Suite Updates | Google is announcing new integrations in Hangouts Meet and Calendar to help you have even better meeting experiences regardless of the conference technology you use. They're also bringing you new ways to collaborate in Hangouts Chat and Sheets. | | Configure Your Google Groups Settings for Increased Security | | G Suite Updates | By default, Google Groups are set to private; there have been a small number of instances, however, where customers have accidentally shared sensitive information as a result of misconfigured Google Groups privacy settings. That’s why it’s important to understand how you can tailor the privacy configurations of Google Groups to align with your organization’s policies. | | Come What May | | Several People Are Typing | May was chock-a-block with releases, news, and features in Slack. Let’s spring right into the latest updates from the blog this month. |
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