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| | | | | Ticketmaster Will Pay $10 Million for Hacking Rival Ticket Seller | | The Verge | Ticketmaster has agreed to pay $10 million for breaking into a competitors’ network. The company and its parent Live Nation admitted to hiring a former employee from rival ticket seller CrowdSurge, then using his knowledge — including old usernames and passwords — to learn CrowdSurge’s inner workings and “cut [the company] off at the knees.” | | How to Avoid a Data Breach Disaster: Practical Tips for IT to Ensure Compliance and Secure the SaaS Environment) | | BetterCloud | Effective compliance in a SaaS-based world has a few key tasks. Successfully complying is about having documented processes for auditors and regulators. In this guide, we’ll explore some of the most essential processes and steps around SaaS security compliance, and the role BetterCloud’s workflows play in easing them. | | T-Mobile Data Breach Exposed Phone Numbers, Call Records | | BleepingComputer | T-Mobile has announced a data breach exposing customers' proprietary network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and call records. Starting yesterday, T-Mobile began texting customers that a "security incident" exposed their account's information. | | CISA Updates SolarWinds Guidance, Tells Us Govt Agencies to Update Right Away | | ZDNet | In an update posted late last night, CISA said that all US government agencies that still run SolarWinds Orion platforms must update to the latest 2020.2.1HF2 version by the end of the year. Agencies that can't update by that deadline are to take all Orion systems offline, per CISA's original guidance, first issued on December 18. |
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| | | 10 Tips and Tricks for iPadOS 14 | | How-To Geek | Apple’s iPadOS 14 update for the iPad, iPad Air, iPad Mini, and iPad Pro brings the iPad closer to the Mac without losing what makes the iPad unique. Here are the features you should try out on iPadOS 14. | | A Quick Way to Extract Text From Screenshots on Windows 10 Using Built-In Tools | | MSPoweruser | Sometimes you want to extract snippets of text from a screenshot, picture or app (for example a reader app which won’t let you copy or a PDF that is an image rather than text). There are of course various apps to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR), but Windows 10 has a built-in tool which makes the process very quick and easy for small amounts of text. |
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| | | What Was Your Biggest Accomplishment in 2020 and Why? | | SaaSOps Community | Can you believe that today is the last day of 2020? We featured this thread a few weeks ago, but it seems like the perfect time to revisit it. Tell us about your biggest accomplishment this year by clicking the link above. |
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