BleepingComputer | This represents more than three times the amount awarded during the previous year when researchers earned a total of $4.4 million in Microsoft bug bounty awards according to the annual Microsoft Bug Bounty Program retrospective published on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.

BetterCloud | To answer this question and many more, our CEO David Politis was joined by Dropbox CTO Bharat Mediratta. During their 45-minute chat, they solicited questions from attendees that explored IT’s role in shaping the future of our increasingly digital workplaces. Missed the live event? Here’s a recap of some of the spicier questions they discussed.

Ars Technica | The company received a draft complaint from the FTC on July 28, it disclosed in its regular quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange commission. The complaint alleges that Twitter is in violation of its 2011 settlement with the FTC over the company's "failure to safeguard personal information."

ZDNet | The operators of the Maze ransomware have published today tens of GB of internal data from the networks of enterprise business giants LG and Xerox following two failed extortion attempts. The hackers leaked 50.2 GB they claim to have stolen from LG's internal network, and 25.8 GB of Xerox data.

ITProPortal | Take a look at five of the best options for testing your password strength online. The process only takes a minute or two, and it can help you protect your accounts and data. Developing better passwords is one of the easiest ways to improve your online security.

How-To Geek | Compressing images in your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation can help reduce the overall file size of the presentation and save disk space on the device it’s stored on. Here’s how to compress images in Microsoft PowerPoint.

G Suite Updates | Google is making some changes that will affect the Google Meet video conferencing policies applied to a Google Calendar event that is organized by a delegate or when a meeting is transferred. In both cases, Google Meet video conferencing policies will now be based on the person who owns the calendar event, not the delegate or original event owner.