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| | | Faulty Database Script Brings Salesforce to Its Knees | | ZDNet | At the heart of the outage was a change the company made to its production environment that broke access permission settings across organizations and gave employees access to all of their company's files. According to reports, users received write permissions, making it easy for malicious employees to steal or tamper with a company's data. (With BetterCloud, you can manage your share settings across your SaaS apps to make sure that sensitive documents never end up in the wrong hands.) | | Office 365 User Security Practices Are Woeful, Yet It's Still 'Microsoft's Fault' When an Org Is Breached | | The Register | Microsoft publishes information about the security practices of its users, via a security dashboard available to Office 365 administrators. The maximum "security score" is currently 707, though this should not be taken too seriously since it assumes use of other Microsoft services like InTune. The average Office 365 score is just 37, though, and that is a concern. | | Huawei’s Phone Business Would Be Decimated Without Google’s Android | | The Verge | The news from Sunday night that Google would be complying with a US government edict and suspending business with Huawei is one of the most dramatic moments in Android’s history. Huawei, China’s most prolific smartphone vendor, had started 2019 with explosive double-digit growth and was on a path to eclipse Samsung as the world’s number one phone maker by the year’s end. Without Google’s Android support, however, that’s simply not going to happen—not in 2019 or 2020 or any other date in the future. | | Google Sees Gmail as Key to Its Collaboration Plans | | Computerworld | As demand for team messaging apps continues to blossom, it may seem like email's days as the main business messaging tool are numbered. Google, however, sees the future of its team messaging tool, Hangouts Chat, as closely entwined with email. |
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| | | How to Manage Browser Tabs When You’ve Got Way Too Many Open | | Mic | It can happen so quickly: You start the day with a fresh browser window, opening only your email, and then in what seems like 2.5 seconds, you have 50 separate tabs open. The digital clutter can quickly spiral out of control and potentially impact your productivity, your computer speed, or even your stress levels. Keep your tab hoarding in check with these strategies from people who have been there. | | How to Make Your Mac Keyboard’s Eject Key Useful Again | | How-To Geek | Your Mac’s Magic Keyboard has an Eject key, but it doesn’t need one because modern Macs don’t have any drives to eject. You can repurpose that key to make it do something more useful, and How-To Geek is going to show you how. |
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| | | More Admin Control Over Apps Script Projects With Google Cloud Console Management | | G Suite Updates | Google is changing how Apps Script manages Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects. This will help IT Admins govern these projects and simplify how developers manage projects as well. New Apps Script GCP projects will now live in a new folder (“apps-script”) in the GCP resource hierarchy. This means that new Apps Script projects will be governed by organization policies defined for GCP projects by IT admins. | | Dark Mode Available for Calendar and Keep on Android | | G Suite Updates | Google Calendar and Keep will now support Dark mode on Android. Both Calendar and Keep apps need to be updated to the latest version of the app to see this feature. |
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