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| | | Twitter to Everyone: Uh, Maybe Change Your Passwords | | PCMag | Welp. Twitter is telling all its 330 million users to consider changing their passwords (on World Password Day, no less) after the company noticed it was accidentally storing them in clear text. "Password hashing" is an industry standard, and can prevent a hacker from quickly exploiting the information if it ever leaks. However, in Twitter's case, a software bug prevented the hashing from being completed, the company's CTO said. | | You Can Finally Encrypt Slack Messages So Your Boss Can't Read Them | | Motherboard | In case you didn’t know, yes—your boss can read your Slack messages, regardless of what channel you share them in. Well, here's some good news for you. Someone finally made a tool that runs on top of Slack and encrypts messages, making them readable only by the sender and their intended recipient or recipients. The tool, called Shhlack, was created by information security consulting firm MindedSecurity and is available as a browser extension or a patch for the Slack app. | | Chrome Learns to Mute Sites Based on Your Web History | | Engadget | The latest version of Chrome automatically mutes and plays tabs based on your browsing history. If you tend to slap the mute button most of the time on a given site, Chrome will eventually provide blissful silence all on its own. Let the audio flow on a regular basis, however, and Chrome will know to leave that site alone. |
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| | | 7 Ways to Embrace Shadow IT and Win | | CIO | Shining a light on shadow IT can reveal potentially useful and productive technologies. Here's how to meet employees' hidden needs — reliably and securely. |
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