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| Grammarly's Flawed Chrome Extension Exposed Users' Private Documents | | ZDNet | Grammarly has fixed a security bug in its Chrome extension that inadvertently allowed access to a user's account—including their private documents and data. Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher at Google's Project Zero who found the "high severity" vulnerability, said the browser extension exposed authentication tokens to all websites. That means any website can access a user's documents, history, logs and other data, the bug report said. The grammar-correcting browser extension is used by about 22 million users. | | Firefox Quantum vs Chrome: Are the Tides Shifting? | | ZDNet | Mozilla has a new web browser, called Firefox Quantum, to compete with Google Chrome. Is Firefox Quantum truly better than Google's rival browser? If you'd like to learn about what types of updates Firefox Quantum brings to the table, or how these two top-tier browsers stack up, ZDNet has broken out all the stats and features worth paying attention to. | | You're The IT Worker in Charge of Securing the Cloud For Your Company. Welcome to Hell | | The Register | This is a great read for any IT admin managing SaaS apps. "Connectors like Zapier, IFTTT, and Microsoft Flow make it easy for the average user to read data out of one system and stick it into another … without the need to involve the IT department. What a winning concept for raising productivity when we’re working across a dozen different Software as a Service apps! What a nightmare for IT who has no idea what other apps now have access to the corporate data or who’s using them. So what’s the IT department to do?" | | | | | | How to Use Google Calendar as a Personal Journal From Today | | MakeUseOf | Have you ever considered using Google Calendar to go back in time rather than forward? Just like a journal, think about looking back at a calendar with convenient views, color-coding, and memorable dates at a glance. Goals you achieve, moods you experience, foods you eat, and even bucket list items you complete can all be tracked easily with Google Calendar. | | 21 Slack Tips and Tricks to Make You a Workplace Wizard | | Stuff | How can you get the most out of Slack? With these 21 nifty tips, that’s how. Here are some of the neatest tricks this cross-platform app has up its metaphoric sleeves. | | |
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