Ars Technica | Google is promising to punish sites that offer what the company calls "abusive experiences." Chrome 71, due for release in December, will blacklist sites that are repeat offenders and suppress all advertising on those sites. The behaviors deemed abusive cover a range of user-hostile things, such as ads that masquerade as system error messages, ads with fake close boxes that actually activate an ad when clicked, phishing, and malware. In general, if an ad is particularly misleading, destructive, or intrusive, it runs the risk of being deemed abusive.

ZDNet | Master passwords and faulty standards implementations allow attackers access to encrypted data without needing to know the user-chosen password.

Network World | Wi-Fi 6 — aka 802.11ax — will begin to make its way into new installations in 2019, bringing with it a host of technological upgrades aimed at simplifying wireless-network problems.

BetterCloud | Don't miss our webinar (happening today and tomorrow)! BetterCloud's VP of Security Carlos Batista and Senior Security Architect Austin Whipple will offer tips and guidance on how to implement a robust insider threats program. Register if you'd like to learn best practices for keeping sensitive data safe. They’ll also share an exclusive preview of the findings from our 2018 Insider Threats Survey (stay tuned for the full research report in February).

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MakeUseOf | Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheet tools, and it has an impressive collection of built-in tools and features. In this article, you’ll learn how powerful Excel formulas and conditional formatting can be, with three useful examples.

CIO Dive | CIOs are moving from the back office to become active business drivers. In the next two years, compensation will reflect that with 80% of IT executives' earnings based on IT's contribution to business growth and performance, according to IDC Worldwide CIO Agenda 2019 predictions.

Troy Hunt | "I want to articulate precisely why passwords have a lot of life left in them yet," writes Troy Hunt. "Despite its many flaws, the one thing that the humble password has going for it over technically superior alternatives is that everyone understands how to use it. Everyone."

G Suite Updates | Google is making it easier to copy formatting from one object (like a block of text or a shape) to multiple others in Google Slides.

G Suite Updates | Check out the latest "What's New in G Suite" launch recap (pdf) for a roundup of all G Suite launches from October 2018.