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| | Over 120 Million US Consumers Exposed in Privacy Snafu | Infosecurity | Security researchers have discovered a publicly exposed cloud database containing personal data and behavioral profiles on 120 million Americans. Security company UpGuard found the misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket on February 3 this year, eventually tracing it back to market analysis company Tetrad. | Product Tip Tuesday: Automatically Expire Public Links in Dropbox by Using BetterCloud Workflows | BetterCloud Monitor | SaaS apps are known for making the workplace more collaborative; file sharing is one of the SaaS features that makes this seamless collaboration, both internally and externally, possible. But what happens when you share a link with a person that you don’t want to have indefinite access to the information? BetterCloud gives you the ability to build a backstop to this problem using a simple workflow. | Google Purges 600 Android Apps for “Disruptive” Pop-up Ads | Naked Security | On Thursday, Google kicked nearly 600 of the offending apps off its Play store and banned them from its ad monetization platforms, Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager, for violating its disruptive ads policy and disallowed interstitial policy. | LTE Security Flaw Can Be Abused to Take Out Subscriptions at Your Expense | ZDNet | A security vulnerability in LTE can be exploited to sign up for subscriptions or paid website services at someone else's expense, new research suggests. |
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| Slatiquette | Slatiquette | This website aims to tame the Wild West that can be Slack interactions. From when you should @channel to how to use threads, this post covers all the bases. Take a look if you want to make sure that you're following proper Slack etiquette (and then send it to those that might need a refresher). | Cybersecurity in 2020: From Secure Code to Defense in Depth | CSO Online | Since 2014, CIOs have flagged cybersecurity as either their first or second most important IT management issue in the IT Trends Study from the Society for Information Management. Year over year, the risk of career-ending breaches looms larger as threats continue to balloon in number and potency. This article tackles hot security issues, from prioritizing risk to securing digital transformation. |
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| The Suite Life: 4 Tips for a More Manageable Gmail Inbox | The Keyword | There are no SaaS updates today. Instead, take a look at the Gmail edition of The Suite Life, a series that brings you tips and tricks to get the most out of G Suite.This post will help you save time and get more done—right from your Gmail inbox. |
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