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| Delta, Sears, Kmart Hit by Data Breach: What You Need to Know | | CNET | Heads up: If you bought plane tickets from Delta, tools from Sears, or household goods from Kmart between Sep. 26 and Oct. 12 last year — and you did it online — your name, address, and credit card numbers may have been exposed at those companies' websites. A piece of malware temporarily residing in their online chat service — a chat service provided by [24]7.ai — may have harvested your payment info after you completed a transaction. | | Microsoft to Add Ransomware Protection Tools, Advanced Outlook.com Encryption for Consumers | | ZDNet | Files Restore enables users to restore their entire OneDrive cloud storage to a previous point in time within the last 30 days. Users also can use this feature to recover from an accidental mass delete, file corruption, ransomware, or another catastrophic event, officials noted. In addition, Microsoft is making new OneDrive password protection links available for shared OneDrive files and folders which can help prevent forwarding of shared links. | | Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware | | Anish Athalye | "We turned a MacBook into a touchscreen using only $1 of hardware and a little bit of computer vision," writes MIT PhD student Anish Athalye. How? This is pretty clever: "Our hardware setup was simple. All we needed was to position a mirror at the appropriate angle in front of the webcam. Here is our bill of materials: Small mirror, rigid paper plate, door hinge, hot glue." | | 8 IT Management Productivity Killers | | CIO | From neglecting to prioritize key strategic initiatives to failing to adjust project estimates, weak IT management practices are threatening IT’s ability to get the job done. | | | | | | How to Make Calls and Use Google Hangouts Like a Pro | | MakeUseOf | While Hangouts was once the default communication app on Android, Google has phased it out in favor of Allo and Duo. However, Hangouts is still a great service for both desktop and mobile. MakeUseOf answers common questions and shows you how to use it. | | Write and Edit Like a Pro with Split View in Microsoft Word for Mac | | TekRevue | With long documents, you'll often want to compare or reference multiple parts of the document at once. To prevent you from having to scroll back and forth between two sections of your document, Microsoft includes a “split” feature in Word that, unsurprisingly, splits the window into two sections with each offering an independently navigable view of your document. Here’s how to use the Split feature in Microsoft Word for Mac. | | |
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