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| | | Gmail Spam Mystery: Before You Change Your Password, Read This | | CNET | There's something weird afoot in the world of Gmail. Some people have noticed spam messages in their Gmail Sent folders. That can only mean one thing, right? Those accounts have been compromised, meaning a password change is in order, stat. Here's the thing: The spam problem appears to persist for some, even after a password change. 2FA isn't helping either. So what's going on here, and what can you do about it? | | Blind Spots in Slack: 5 Things You Didn’t Know Your End Users & Admins Could Do | | BetterCloud Monitor | In Slack, end users and admins can do (and view) some things that might surprise you. From creating public links to files to inviting external users to any public channels, here are five blind spots that you should be aware of. | | Atlanta Spent at Least $2.6 Million on Ransomware Recovery | | ZDNet | Atlanta spent more than $2.6 million on recovery efforts stemming from a SamSam ransomware attack, which crippled a sizable part of the city's online services. The ransom was set at around $55,000 worth of bitcoin, a digital cryptocurrency that in recent weeks has wildy fluctated in price. But it's understood that the ransom was never paid -- because the portal used to pay the ransom (even if the city wanted to) was pulled offline by the ransomware attacker. |
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| | | 5 Things You Can Do with Chrome Browser to Increase Employee Productivity | | The Keyword | Chrome Browser has many built-in capabilities that IT admins can use to pre-install bookmarks, apps, and extensions, centrally manage policies, and provide an optimal web browsing experience. Here are five things IT admins can do with Chrome Browser to help teams work more efficiently. | | 6 Great Time-Management Apps and Tips That Boost Productivity | | Entrepreneur | This article isn’t meant as a step-by-step guide to becoming more productive. Instead, it offers you dozens of options that can help you manage your time. Pick what works for you so you can be more productive without feeling like you have to sacrifice too much. |
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| | | The New Rules of IT-Business Alignment in the Digital Era | | CIO | This is a great read on how to make IT-business alignment work in today’s world. Rule #2: IT may no longer control all technology, but it’s still responsible for making sure nothing goes wrong. "IT no longer has meaningful veto power over technologies it judges insecure, insufficiently robust, or unable to integrate with existing systems. IT leaders can try saying no, but there’s a good chance line of business employees will simply sign up for the inexpensive or free software-as-a-service tools they want anyway. So IT leaders must operate by persuasion rather than fiat, and for that they must be seen as collaborators instead of gatekeepers." |
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| | | Alexa and the Age of Casual Rudeness | | The Atlantic | The author writes: “Alexa, play Jeopardy!” my son will bark. And she follows his command. Kids who live with Alexa or other smart speakers have access to a digital genie. What might be the consequences of giving a child this voice-activated magic lamp, one with no limit to wishes and no consequences for exceeding the allotted amount? |
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| | | G Suite Basic and Business Customers Can Now Create Hangouts Meet Meetings with Dial-In Phone Numbers | | G Suite Updates | Now, all meetings created in Google Calendar by users with G Suite Basic and G Suite Business licenses will have a US dial-in phone number that anyone can use to join the meeting, even non-G Suite users. | | Session Length Controls for Domains Using SAML | | G Suite Updates | In March, Google introduced a setting that allows G Suite Business, Enterprise, and Education admins to specify the duration of web sessions for Google services (e.g. four hours, seven days, or infinite). At the time, this setting only applied to domains where Google was responsible for the login (i.e. where Google was the Identity Provider). Google is now extending the reach of this setting and making it applicable in domains that federate to another Identity Provider (IdP) using SAML. | | Get More Control Over Chart Data Labels in Google Sheets | | G Suite Updates | Google is adding new features to help the charts you create in Google Sheets better represent the data they contain. These features include showing total data labels for stacked charts and controlling where data labels are placed. |
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