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| | | | | iPhone Security Flaw Let Spies Hack Dozens of Al Jazeera Journalists | | Engadget | Journalists appear to have fallen prone to a particularly sophisticated digital espionage campaign. According to the Guardian, Citizen Lab has discovered that operators using NSO Group software, nicknamed Kismet, hacked the iPhones of 37 journalists (most from Al Jazeera) using an iMessage vulnerability that had been present for roughly a year. | | The SaaS Explosion: Hidden Costs and Security Threats | | BetterCloud | As your organization’s consumption of SaaS accelerates, so do the potential threats against your cloud-based environment and the associated costs of those threats. This essential IT guide explores the management and security pitfalls of SaaS. | | Zoom May Launch an Email Service and Calendar App to Compete With Google and Microsoft | | The Verge | Videoconferencing platform Zoom has had a blockbuster year, with its stock price rising more than 500 percent due to the unprecedented surge in remote work brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. But now the company is looking to expand beyond workplace video chat and into new territories, specifically email and calendar services. | | Google: Here’s How Our Huge Gmail and YouTube Outage Was Due to an Errant ‘Zero’ | | ZDNet | A day after the incident on Monday 14, Google said in a prelimiary analysis that the root cause was an issue in its automated storage quota management system, which reduced the capacity of its central identity management system and in turn blocked everyone from accessing many Google services that require users to log in. |
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| | | How to Add a Table to Your Gmail Messages | | MakeUseOf | Picture this: you want to use Gmail to send an email with a table in it to your colleagues. The table itself is small, and attaching a separate spreadsheet to the email seems kind of unnecessary. So what do you do? Fortunately, there are two easy ways to get around this. | | How to Open Chrome’s Incognito Mode with a Keyboard Shortcut | | How-To Geek | If you ever need to do some private browsing in Google Chrome, it’s easy to quickly open an Incognito window using a keyboard shortcut. In this special mode, your browsing history won’t be stored on your local machine. Here’s how to launch it. |
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| | | How Does One Check the Security of a WordPress Add-On? | | SaaSOps Community | There are countless WordPress plugins. Personally, I've lost entire weekends browsing for the perfect plugin for my websites. The folks in the SaaSOps Community are (thankfully) sharing tips on how to make sure a plugin is safe to use. Check it out by clicking the link above. |
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