ZDNet | Quora, one of the largest question-and-answer portals on the Internet, said that hackers gained access to its servers and stole information on approximately 100 million of its users, which represents almost half of the site's total userbase. Account info, passwords, emails, private messages, and user votes were exposed.

BetterCloud Monitor | In part two of our blog series, we discuss 12 best practices when implementing a Zero Trust security model for effective SaaS management.

ZDNet | Three academics from Northeastern University and three researchers from IBM Research have discovered a new variation of the Spectre CPU vulnerability that can be exploited via browser-based code. The research team says this new CPU vulnerability is, too, a design flaw in the microarchitecture of modern processors that can be exploited by attacking the process of "speculative execution," an optimization technique used to improve CPU performance.

9to5Google | Chrome has become more or less the de facto way to render the web. Microsoft has long tried to avoid that fact by constantly working on Internet Explorer, and then Edge, but it seems no more. Microsoft is reportedly embracing Chrome with a new replacement browser for Windows 10.

Gizmodo | Like an operating system reinstall, resetting your web browser can fix all kinds of problems and improve performance at the same time — squash annoying bugs, clear out dodgy and outdated extensions, and get a browser that’s good as new with a hard reset. Here’s how to carry it out on all the major browsers.

TechRepublic | It's common to hide Excel data. If you want viewers to see that data, you can add a friendly alert.

InformationWeek | IT continues to lose control of technologies used in the enterprise. A recent report explains just how empowered end users have become, especially when it comes to communications and collaboration technologies.

ITPro Today | Based on client "scar tissue," here are 10 disaster recovery planning lessons learned from experience.

G Suite Updates | On December 31, 2018, Google will be removing two notification methods in the G Suite Admin console: the bell icon in the Admin console web interface and push notifications from the Google Admin apps for Android and iOS.