9to5Mac | "We’re one week away from Apple’s big October 30th event, and reliable supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities has some newsworthy predictions. For Apple’s event next week, Kuo expects Apple to unveil several hardware revisions: Two new USB-C equipped iPad Pro updates with better displays, a 'new-design' Apple Pencil for the updated iPad Pro hardware, and at least three new Macs including a 'low-price' MacBook and updated Mac mini and iMac processors," writes Zac Hall.

CIO Dive | "Every time an employee leaves an organization (willingly or not) and takes company data with them (either knowingly or not), businesses face significant cost and time losses. According to a recent report by the Ponemon Institute, the average cost per lost or stolen record is $148 and the average data breach can range from a low of 2,500 compromised records to over 100,000," writes Brian Rutledge. (In SaaS environments especially, employee-induced data loss can happen all too easily in many different ways. That's why BetterCloud helps with DLP and offers one-off/automated remediation actions to prevent data loss incidents.)

ZDNet | A security researcher has disclosed a Windows zero-day vulnerability on Twitter for the second time in the span of two months. The researcher, who goes online by the pseudonym of SandboxEscaper, also published proof-of-concept (PoC) on GitHub. This second Windows zero-day affects the Microsoft Data Sharing (dssvc.dll), a local service that provides data brokering between applications. According to several security experts who analyzed the zero-day's PoC, an attacker can use it to elevate their privileges on systems they already have access to.

Ars Technica | Firefox 63, out yesterday, includes the first iteration of what Mozilla is calling Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP), a feature to improve privacy and stop your activity across the Web from being tracked. The new EPT option works as a more selective block on tracking cookies; third-party cookies still work in general, but those that are known to belong to tracking companies are blocked. A second privacy-related feature may be a little more contentious. Starting from today, a random selection of US Firefox users will be offered a subscription to ProtonVPN.

BGR | Some of Google’s top brass put together a collection of tips users might find handy.

PCWorld | "Microsoft is wrestling with the fallout from the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, which apparently deleted user data in an undisclosed number of cases and was put on hold, then resumed. Would you want to buy a car if it had even a 0.001 percent chance of exploding? Probably not — which is why it’s good to know how to manage Windows 10 updates, now and in the future," writes Mark Hachman.

The Enterprisers Project | What exactly is a cloud-native app? What do people get wrong about the term? The Enterprisers Project gets to the bottom of this.

Computerworld | Microsoft wants everything to run on Windows. Google wants everything to run on the web. (And what does Apple want?)

Samanage Blog | No SaaS product updates today. Instead, here's an article you might find useful if you're looking for an ITSM tool.