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| Apple Releases iOS 11.3 So You Can Check How Bad Your iPhone Battery Is | | Mashable | Apple just released iOS 11.3, which adds the new "battery health" feature that allows you to check whether your iPhone's battery has degraded. It also lets you see if Apple is throttling your device due to a bad battery. And in a surprise move, Apple also added a new "Data & Privacy" feature in the wake of concerns about Facebook and other companies' use of personal data. | | Boeing Hit by WannaCry, Reminding Everyone the Threat is Still There | | Naked Security | When senior Boeing engineer Mike VanderWel reportedly sent an “all hands on deck” internal memo warning that the dreaded WannaCry malware was on the loose inside the company’s networks, alarm quickly spread. A few hours later, however, Boeing felt able to downplay the incident in various statements. Some in the media have talked up this up as WannaCry’s ‘return’, even though it never went away entirely. | | Microsoft Products Are Hackers’ Favorite — Report | | Infosecurity Magazine | The majority of vulnerabilities used by cyber-criminals last year in phishing attacks and exploit kits were found in Microsoft products, with some dating back several years, according to a new report. The most commonly observed vulnerability was CVE-2017-0199, found in several Microsoft Office products and allowing attackers to download and execute a Visual Basic script containing Powershell commands from a malicious document. | | Future Crimes: Inside the Digital Underground and the Battle for Our Connected World | | Amazon | Shout-out to Monitor reader Mathew H, who wrote in and suggested this book as a valuable IT resource. About the book: "Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flip side: our technology can be turned against us. And just over the horizon is a tidal wave of scientific progress that will leave our heads spinning—from implantable medical devices to drones and 3-D printers, all of which can be hacked, with disastrous consequences." | | | | | | 4 Tips to Help You Configure Google's G Suite Activity Dashboard | | TechRepublic | The activity dashboard gives Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides collaborators a way to quickly answer these two questions: Who viewed this document? And when? | | Excel 2016 Cheat Sheet | | Computerworld | Are you getting the most from Microsoft Excel 2016? Get to know the key new features. | | | | | | Desktop, Meet Cloud - Box Drive is Now Available! | | Box Blog | Last year, Box built an all-new evolution of Box for the desktop – Box Drive – connecting your desktop and cloud content in one secure, seamless experience. They're excited to announce that Box Drive is now generally available to everyone! | | New and Noteworthy Apps for Slack | | Several People Are Typing | A roundup of helpful integrations to simplify how you get work done. | | Twenty-Three Third-Party Applications Added to the G Suite Pre-Integrated SAML Apps Catalog | | G Suite Updates | Building on other recent launches (February 27th, March 12th), Google is adding SAML integration for 23 additional applications: Adaptive Insights, Buildkite, Citrix ShareFile, CrashPlan, Fuze, HappyFox, Huddle, Image Relay, itsLearning, Jobvite, Klipfolio, Mimecast, Mozy, Enterprise, Periscope Data, Pipedrive, Pritunl, Qubole, Runscope, Saba, Solium Shareworks, Spotinst, VictorOps, and Zuora. | | | | Here's Who Will Win the NCAA Title, According to Siri, Google, Alexa, Cortana and the Magic 8-Ball |
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