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| Scammers Fall in Love with Valentine's Day | Dark Reading | US-CERT and Cupid don't often keep company, but this Valentine's Day is being marked by new threats to those seeking romance and new warnings from the federal cybersecurity group. | Fired Apple Executive Charged With Crime He Was Supposed to Prevent | Gizmodo | Gene Levoff, a former Vice President of Corporate Law at Apple, was charged with insider trading on Wednesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. | One in Three Enterprises Can’t Protect Themselves from Data Breaches | ZDNet | "One in three enterprise companies do not believe they have the capabilities required to fend off a cyberattack leading to a data breach, research suggests. Sixty-three percent say that the 'inability to act on a large number of resulting alerts and actions' is a security problem." (This is why we built BetterCloud — so IT can act on alerts and remediate policy violations across SaaS apps.) | Google Maps Might Get an Important New Privacy Option Soon | Mashable | Here's the trouble with letting apps know your location data: It's a potential privacy nightmare, but it also makes certain apps a lot more useful. Case in point: Google Maps. You don't have to let the app access your location or retain your location history, but then it's not nearly as good. |
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| How to Use Google Docs Offline | How-To Geek | Google Docs is great, but because it typically requires an internet connection to use, getting things done when you’re offline can be challenging. If you’re using Google Chrome, an official extension named Google Docs Offline changes that. | How to Really Block Time-Wasting Websites: 3 Tips That Work | MakeUseOf | When you’re trying to get some work done online, you might find the web too big and too fascinating a distraction to ignore. But you can sideline it with the help of tips and tools that block time-wasting digital content for you. |
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| Equifax CTO: 3 Keys to Leading Culture Change | The Enterprisers Project | Culture change is now the hardest part of the IT leader's job — much harder than technical change. Equifax CTO Bryson Koehler shares advice on three strategies. |
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