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| | | | | Wawa Breach May Have Compromised More Than 30 Million Payment Cards | | Krebs on Security | In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the theft of card data from customers who visited any of its 850 locations nationwide. Now, fraud experts say the first batch of card data stolen from Wawa customers is being sold at one of the underground’s most popular crime shops, which claims to have 30 million records to peddle from a new nationwide breach. | | CCPA Regulations: What IT Professionals Need to Know | | BetterCloud Monitor | Since October you’ve been hearing about them—the proposed CCPA regulations coming out of California. You’ve read some articles and want to have your company set up and ready for success this year (the law became effective January 1). But some of the legal jargon is hard to wade through. And, not to mention, what actually applies to your IT job? We’re here to help. | | Avast Packaged Detailed User Data to Be Sold for Millions of Dollars | | Engadget | The popular antivirus program Avast has been selling users data to giant companies like Google, Home Depot, Microsoft, and Pepsi, a joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag found. Avast reportedly scraped data from its antivirus software and handed it off to its subsidiary Jumpshot, which repackaged the data and sold it, sometimes for millions of dollars. While Avast required users to opt-in to this data sharing, the investigation found that many were unaware that Jumpshot was selling their data. | | Sprint Exposed Customer Support Site to Web | | Krebs on Security | Fresh on the heels of a disclosure that Microsoft Corp. leaked internal customer support data to the Internet, mobile provider Sprint has addressed a mix-up in which posts to a private customer support community were exposed to the Web. KrebsOnSecurity recently contacted Sprint to let the company know that an internal customer support forum called “Social Care” was being indexed by search engines, and that several months worth of postings about customer complaints and other issues were viewable without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. |
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| | | IT Culture: 10 Outdated Beliefs to Banish in 2020 | | The Enterprisers Project | CIOs and CTOs share the IT culture misconceptions that are holding some IT organizations back. Do people on your teams need to dump any of these? | | How to Create Excel Macros and Automate Your Spreadsheets | | PCWorld | Excel macros are like mini-programs that perform repetitive tasks, saving you a lot of time and typing. For example, it takes Excel less than one-tenth of a second to calculate an entire, massive spreadsheet. It’s the manual operations that slow you down. That’s why you need macros to combine all of these chores into a single one-second transaction. |
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| | | SaaS Updates Summary: January 27 – January 31 | | BetterCloud Monitor | There were only a few SaaS updates last week. Most notably, BetterCloud released file audits for G Suite, Box, Dropbox, and Slack. Additionally, G Suite released a few new features and announced the next feature that is headed to the Google graveyard. Catch up on all the SaaS updates here. |
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