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| | | Palm Looks Like the Smallest iPhone You've Ever Seen, But It's Not a Phone | | CNET | "Imagine a mini iPhone so tiny it fits neatly into the palm of your hand and into your tightest jeans pocket. But it isn't an iPhone. It isn't even a phone at all. This 3.3-inch gadget is the new Palm, a superportable Android sidekick that has its own LTE data connection and pairs with your phone for calls and texts," writes Jessica Dolcourt. | | 'Our Industry Has Lost a Pioneer': Tech Titans Are Devastated by the Death of Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen | | Business Insider | Some of the most prominent tech leaders on the planet have paid tribute to Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft who died yesterday at the age of 65. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were among those to celebrate the mark that Allen left on the tech world. | | Chrome, Edge, IE, Firefox, and Safari to Disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in 2020 | | ZDNet | Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla announced plans to disable Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 support in their respective browsers in the first half of 2020. | | Pentagon Data Breach Compromises Up to 30,000 Workers | | Engadget | The Pentagon still has to grapple with data security woes despite efforts to harden its sites and networks. Defense Department officials have revealed that a travel record data breach at an unnamed contractor exposed the personal info of military and civilian staffers, including credit cards. As the article points out, institutions are only as secure as the vendors they use. It's unclear how this happened, but in general, implementing the least privilege model is a best practice that can mitigate this kind of risk. (With BetterCloud, you can reduce risk by building custom admin roles that enforce a least privilege policy in your environment.) |
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