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| Mountain of Sensitive FedEx Customer Data Exposed, Possibly for Years | | 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. | | Google Launches a Lightweight ‘Gmail Go’ App for Android | | 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. | | Rogue IT Admin Goes Off the Rails, Shuts Down Canadian Train Switches | | 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. | | | | | | 17 Google Docs Tips Everyone Should Know | | 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. | | How to Use the Chrome Task Manager to Find In-Browser Miners | | 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. | | |
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