BetterCloud Monitor | 2018 was a momentous year for us: 18 major product releases, $60M in funding, and more. Here’s a look back at all the highlights.

PCMag | Until now, a Google account was required to view, comment, and edit Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files, but Google is introducing a pincode verification system allowing non-Google account holders to gain access to and edit those files.

Bleeping Computer | A clever phishing campaign has been discovered that pretends to be a non-delivery notification from Office 365 that leads you to a page attempting to steal your login credentials. This new campaign was discovered by ISC Handler Xavier Mertens and states that "Microsoft found several undelivered messages." It then prompts you to click on the "Send Again" link in order to try sending the emails again. Here's an example of this phishing email.

The Washington Post | When a person using Amazon’s voice assistant in Germany requested to listen to his archive of recordings, he got much more than he was expecting. Along with receiving his own audio history captured by a home microphone, the user also gained access to 1,700 audio files from a person he did not know. Amazon sent the man a link that contained a stranger’s recordings, allowing him to listen to another man speaking inside his home with a female companion.

groovyPost | Here are five useful Google Drive tips and tricks.

Computerworld | Supercharge your Chrome OS experience with these time-saving tricks and techniques.

InformationWeek | "IT, short of course for information technology, is an old-school title in a new school world. It incites the same quiet rage as calling a human resources professional 'personnel' or an executive assistant a 'secretary.' It’s just not what we do anymore. IT calls to mind botched passwords, Internet connection errors, and monitors that don’t work (have you tried turning it on?)," writes Timothy Wenhold.

TNW | "This is perhaps the saddest article I’ve written: I’m opening myself up to endless ridicule by admitting how deeply I care about something so incredibly mundane and objectively boring. But I don’t care. I’m a champion of the people, and I’m prepared to sacrifice myself for the greater good. Google, all I want for Christmas are folders for Google Docs," writes Már Másson Maack.

BetterCloud Monitor | The big news last week: Google is opening G Suite file access to non-Google users (!). They're introducing a beta for an "easy pincode identity verification process" that will enable G Suite users to invite non-G Suite users to collaborate on files as visitors. In separate news, Google is also adding the ability to compare G Suite adoption and use between OUs. And lastly, Microsoft introduced the Office app for Windows 10.