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| | | Quest Diagnostics Says 11.9 Million Patients Affected by Data Breach | | TechCrunch | Medical testing giant Quest Diagnostics has confirmed a third-party billing company has been hit by a data breach affecting 11.9 million patients. According to the filing, the breach was a result of malicious activity on the payment pages of the American Medical Collection Agency, a third-party collections vendor for Quest. | | Product Tip Tuesday: Time’s Up—Ensuring Admins Have the Proper Access at the Proper Times | | BetterCloud Monitor | BetterCloud is committed to helping you implement a least privilege model—a security best practice—in your SaaS environment. Time-based roles allow you to delegate admin access to BetterCloud for a set amount of time, ensuring that users won’t retain elevated access any longer than they need. | | Microsoft Stops Asking You to Change Your Windows 10 Password Every 60 Days | | The Next Web | Microsoft has finally removed its 60-day password expiration policy from its Windows 10 security baseline, claiming there are better ways to keep users secure. This means organizations using Windows 10 won’t have to force their users to change passwords frequently. | | Under Pressure, Google Cracks Down on Platform Privacy and Safety | | CNBC | Google issued several new policies meant to improve user privacy and safety, from restricting third-party data collection to banning apps that help users buy marijuana. The moves come as Google faces backlash from advertisers for failing to monitor certain types of content, especially with its YouTube subsidiary, whose issues with some of its largest advertisers have only recently come to light. |
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| | | Update PCs Running Older Version of Windows Immediately | | LifeHacker | Those of you who are still running Windows 7 or earlier need to install critical patches that fix a recently-discovered security bug on older versions of Windows. | | Lost Your Windows Administrator Password? Here’s How to Fix It | | MakeUseOf | If you’ve forgotten your admin password in Windows, you won’t have much control. Not having access to an admin account means you can’t uninstall software, make system changes, and do other administrative tasks on your own computer. But don’t despair—MakeUseOf is here to help you. They’ll explain the Windows default admin account situation in various Windows versions and show you how to reset your admin password. |
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| | | Two New Formatting Tools Available in Docs | | G Suite Updates | Google introduced two new features in Google Docs that will help you format your work. | | Bulk-export Hangouts Meet Hardware Fleet Information | | G Suite Updates | Google has added the ability to export detailed information about all Hangouts Meet hardware devices in a domain to a Google Sheet or CSV file in a single action. | | G Suite Migrate Beta Now Supports Migrations from Box | | G Suite Updates | Earlier this year, Google announced G Suite Migrate. Launching in beta, this first-party product helps admins assess and plan migration projects, making the migration of enterprise data and content to G Suite seamless. Now, G Suite admins who require migration from Box can utilize G Suite Migrate. |
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