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| | | Hands-On with the World's First Chrome OS Tablet | | Laptop Mag | "It's a Chromebook. It's a tablet. It's both. Acer just unveiled the world’s first Chromebook tablet: the Chromebook Tab 10. And yes, you can play Fortnite and PUBG on it. But outside of fighting tooth and nail for that illustrious chicken dinner, Acer is targeting educators and students with this handsome new slate. The company has yet to share pricing or launch dates. Instead, here are my first impressions," writes Rami Tabari. | | The World’s Biggest Database Of Hacked Passwords Is Now A Chrome Extension That Checks Yours Automatically | | Quartz | Choosing a strong password is an essential move in guarding against hackers. You can check to see if your current passwords have previously been hacked on the website have i been pwned?. Now Okta has built a Chrome browser extension that allows you to automatically check your passwords against the pwned database as you enter credentials onto a website. If there’s a match, the extension warns you that the password has been compromised. If you’re currently using an old or easy password, that warning is likely to pop up. | | Password Formulas Don’t Fool Hackers | | Lifehacker | And speaking of passwords... "Every time we write about passwords on Lifehacker, a few readers share their secret formula for creating passwords. According to Ryan Merchant, senior manager at the password manager Dashlane, those formulas are easy to hack. Dashlane recently analyzed 61 million passwords from years of large data breaches—passwords that are available to many security researchers, hackers, and even the public. Dashlane’s biggest takeaway is that people aren’t very original. Not even the ones using formulas," writes Nick Douglas. | | Windows 10 April 2018 Update Problems: Users Struggle with Mystery 'Black Screen' | | ZDNet | Windows 10 users over the past two days have begun reporting serious glitches after updating to the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. As per an account on Reddit, after installing the update the computer appears to boot but then gets stuck with a black screen and no icons. There's also an error message that the Desktop file could not be accessed. |
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| | | Midnight Is a Confusing Choice for Scheduling | | The Lone Sysadmin | Midnight is a poor choice for scheduling anything. Midnight belongs to tomorrow. It’s 0000 on the clock, which is the beginning of the next day. This is a problem in change notices and customer communications. When you say there’s an outage scheduled for midnight, there’s a very good chance someone will misunderstand when that is. Being wrong by an hour in the middle of the night isn’t so bad. Being wrong by 24 hours gets people riled up, and you have enough problems as it is. |
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| | | How a Password Changed My Life | | Medium | The following events occurred between :( and :). This is an interesting story about a man, fresh off a divorce, who uses his passwords to change his life. |
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| | | How We're Connecting Everything - Day 1 Keynote Summary | | Okta Blog | Here's a roundup of Okta announcements from day one of Oktane 2018. Okta is innovating to define a secure passwordless experience for their customers, enabled by their new ThreatInsight feature. They also have a new public browser extension, PassProtect, that helps everyone choose stronger passwords. They're also kicking off Project Onramp, an initiative that will allow IT professionals to try out new apps and services with one click from the Okta admin console. |
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