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| | I'm still digesting today's top news story. More on that next week. But for now, let's revisit Salesforce's move to WFH forever.
I shared the link with our Community Director Mike Stone yesterday afternoon and he couldn't wait to see how all of you felt about it. When he shared it with the community, I anticipated that a large majority of folks would be very eager to move to a fully-remote workplace. But as I quickly learned, there are some serious (and legitimate) reasons keeping more companies from leaning in to that WFH life.
As someone who really likes working remotely, these are things I hadn't considered. But I'm sure we'll be having this conversation for years to come. What do you think? Any other pros or cons to remote work that you want to share? Jump into the conversation here. |
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| | | A Windows Defender Vulnerability Lurked Undetected for 12 Years | | Wired | The flaw, discovered by researchers at the security firm SentinelOne, showed up in a driver that Windows Defender—renamed Microsoft Defender last year—uses to delete the invasive files and infrastructure that malware can create. When the driver removes a malicious file, it replaces it with a new, benign one as a sort of placeholder during remediation. | | How to Avoid a Data Breach Disaster | | BetterCloud Monitor | One major question looms over IT leaders around the world: Can you simplify SaaS security compliance? In this guide, we’ll explore some of the most essential processes and steps around SaaS security compliance, and the role BetterCloud’s workflows play in easing them. | | Google Flags Its iOS Apps As “Out of Date” After Two Months of Neglect | | Ars Technica | On December 8, Apple's App Store started requiring all apps to show privacy "nutrition labels" in their app store listing, where developers self-report what data an app uses for tracking and how that data is linked to a user. Coincidentally, a lot of Google's apps, especially the most popular ones, have not been updated since December 8. The situation has gotten so bad that Google's servers were briefly flagging its own iOS apps as "out of date." | | Buggy WordPress Plugin Exposes 100K Sites To Takeover Attacks | | BleepingComputer | Critical and high severity vulnerabilities in the Responsive Menu WordPress plugin exposed over 100,000 sites to takeover attacks as discovered by Wordfence. Responsive Menu is a WordPress plugin designed to help admins create W3C compliant and mobile-ready responsible site menus. |
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| | | How To Clean Up Your Gmail Inbox by Quickly Deleting Old Email | | PCWorld | If you have too much email in your Gmail account, it may finally be time to clean it out. This is not simply to reach the Zen-like nirvana of “inbox zero,” but to address a looming threat: As of June 1, 2021, Google will change its storage policy. Here are some tactics for deleting lots of email, pronto. | | 10 Things You Didn’t Know Google Docs Could Do | | How-To Geek | Google Docs may seem basic on the surface but the cloud productivity tool has many overlooked features that can help you do more at work. In this article, we’ll look at several Google Doc features that you probably didn’t know about, and how you can use them to save time on creating content. |
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| | | Is It Possible To Migrate Google Sites? | | SaaSOps Community | The verdict is out: CloudM says you can't migrate Google sites. But that can't really be possible, right? Spoiler: There might be a very tedious workaround. Check it out and join the conversation by clicking the link above. |
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| | | Email Aliases Now Included in Gmail Search Results | | Google Workspace Updates | When you search for an email address in Gmail, Google now show all emails associated with that specific address and any aliases it's part of. These results will be pulled from the to, from, cc, and bcc fields, or anywhere in the email. |
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