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| Ars Technica | Welp. Another day, another exposed Amazon S3 server. Passports, driver licenses, and other sensitive documentation for thousands of FedEx customers were left online, possibly for years, in a blunder that left the information available to identity thieves and other malicious actors. Researchers found 119,000 scanned documents stored in a publicly available Amazon S3 bucket. |
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| TechCrunch | Google has added a notable addition to its line of “Go” edition apps—the lightweight apps designed primarily for emerging markets—with the launch of Gmail Go. The app, like others in the Go line, takes up less storage space on users’ smartphones and makes better use of mobile data compared with the regular version of Gmail. |
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| The Register | A former IT administrator at the Canadian Pacific Railway has been jailed for 366 days for sabotaging the organization's computer network. After the company told him he was being let go, he logged into CPR's computer network switches and removed administrator-level accounts, deleted certain key files, and changed the passwords for other accounts on the networking hardware. Then he wiped the laptop he used to sideline the switches and destroyed all and any logs in an attempt to cover his tracks. |
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| Techworld | Google offers one of the best word processors on the market with its Docs app. But like most technology, it can also be infuriating, tricky to use, and sometimes limited. To make your overall editing experience a bit better, here are some tips on how to get the most from Google Docs. |
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| Bleeping Computer | When a browser is used for in-browser mining, the computer's CPU will be used to mine for digital currency such as Monero. This causes your CPU to run at high temperatures for extended periods of time, which could cause damage to the CPU. Thankfully, Chrome includes a little-used tool called the Chrome Task Manager that makes it easy to track down the site or extension that is using a lot of CPU and possibly an in-browser miner. |
| |  | | | | Box Blog | Box is rolling out new services that aim to help its customers comply with GDPR. It recently released a self-serve, easy-to-execute Data Processing Addendum (DPA), which comprehensively lists all the approved legal mechanisms for data processing. Box Consulting is also rolling out a new compliance-focused engagement service aimed at assisting customers as they prepare for evolving compliance requirements such as GDPR, PCI DSS, FedRamp, and HIPAA from a cloud content management perspective. | | | | Namely Blog | Not a true Namely product update, but a useful article nevertheless. If safety is the best policy, IT security follows closely behind. Out of all the policies in your handbook, few are as critical. Namely’s Director of Information Security and Technology provides five tips on what makes a strong policy. | | | | |
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