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| | | Facebook Is the Latest Tech Giant to Admit Contractors Are Snooping on Your Conversations | | ZDNet | Facebook has revealed that contractors have been paid to listen to clips of audio harvested from Messenger but plans to "pause" the program to stem public backlash. | | 6 Things You Can Do with BetterCloud’s OneDrive and SharePoint Online Integration | | BetterCloud Monitor | Every day, organizations are moving from on-premise storage to the cloud, and for those running an onsite Microsoft solution, Office 365 is a popular choice. For those already in the cloud, the transition from G Suite to Microsoft is becoming a popular one. To accommodate both use cases, BetterCloud’s integration with OneDrive and SharePoint Online aims to simplify the move and automate actions. Here are six things you can do with SharePoint Online and OneDrive in BetterCloud. | | Microsoft Warns of Two New 'Wormable' Flaws in Windows Remote Desktop Services | | ZDNet | Microsoft said last week it patched two new major security flaws in the Windows Desktop Services package. These two vulnerabilities are similar to the vulnerability known as BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708). Microsoft patched BlueKeep in May and warned that attackers could abuse it to create "wormable" attacks that spread from one computer to another without user interaction. | | A Look at the Windows 10 Exploit Google Zero Disclosed Last Week | | Ars Technica | Last Tuesday, Tavis Ormandy of Google's Project Zero released an exploit kit called ctftool, which uses and abuses Microsoft's Text Services Framework in ways that can effectively get anyone root—er, system that is—on any unpatched Windows 10 system they're able to log in to. The patches for this vulnerability—along with several other serious issues—went out in last week's Patch Tuesday update. |
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| | | SaaS Updates Summary: August 12 - August 16 | | BetterCloud Monitor | Missed the SaaS updates last week? Catch up here. Google released a number of updates targeted at making teachers' lives easier. Google also announced new fonts that are designed to improve reading speed. For a full rundown of last week's SaaS updates, read our update post. |
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