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| If You Downloaded One of These 5 Chrome Ad Blockers, You Could Have Been Hacked | | TechRepublic | The ad blockers, which can take over users' browsers, were removed from the Chrome Store after being downloaded 20 million times. The following five ad blockers were found to use this malicious approach: AdRemover for Google Chrome™ (10M+ users), uBlock Plus (8M+ users), Adblock Pro (2M+ users), HD for YouTube™ (400K+ users), and Webutation (30K+ users). | | ICYMI: Who’s Forwarding Emails Outside Your Domain? Here’s Why They Do It and How to Stop Them | | BetterCloud Monitor | Malicious or accidental configurations of automatic email forwarding rules are one of the most common causes of data exposures and compliance breaches. If employees are automatically forwarding email outside your domain, there's a high likelihood that something is wrong. Here are four simple steps to address the issue once and for all. | | Our Password-Free Future Is Near (But Not Really) | | Wired | A new web browser standard may spell the end of passwords, but all the big websites will have to play along first. | | Widescreen Laptops are Dumb | | The Verge | "Especially with the latest display technology, and with ever-shrinking bezels, a 3:2 laptop screen, such as on the Surface Laptop, is gorgeous to behold no matter what content you put on it. And it’s a much better fit to the way laptops are used on a daily basis," writes Vlad Savov. How do you feel about widescreen laptops? Agree? Disagree? | | | | | | 10 Chrome Extensions to Juice Up Gmail | | Computerworld | From tracking emails to managing attachments to making the web interface a little easier to work with, these Chrome extensions will help you be more productive in Gmail. | | The Beginner’s Guide to Comments in Microsoft Excel | | MakeUseOf | Whether you’re creating an Excel workbook for yourself or collaborating on a spreadsheet with others, comments are useful for many reasons. You should master the ways to manage them when you begin your Excel training. MakeUseOf covers some of the basics for working with comments in Excel. | | |
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