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| | | Behold, the Facebook Phishing Scam That Could Dupe Even Vigilant Users | | Ars Technica | Phishers are deploying what appears to be a clever new trick to snag people’s Facebook passwords by presenting convincing replicas of single sign-on login windows on malicious sites, researchers said. | | Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the Galaxy Fold, Available April 26th Starting at $1,980 | | The Verge | Samsung first teased its foldable phone back in November, and at the company’s Galaxy Unpacked event, it’s further detailing its foldable plans. Samsung’s foldable now has a name, the Samsung Galaxy Fold, and the company is revealing more about what this unique smartphone can do. | | Google Says Nest’s Secret Microphone Was ‘Never Intended to Be a Secret’ | | TechCrunch | Google said there is absolutely, positively nothing to worry about the secret microphone in your Nest Secure smart home hub that it didn’t tell you about. Nope, not at all. Just an oversight, said Google. No need to be alarmed. Everything is just fine. | | Severe Vulnerabilities Uncovered in Popular Password Managers | | ZDNet | A new study investigating the true security posture of password storage services has uncovered a swathe of vulnerabilities which can lead to the theft of valuable user credentials — but this does not mean you should abandon your favorite password manager any time soon. |
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| | | 5 Google Drive Tools For Better Docs, Spreadsheets, Slides, and More | | MakeUseOf | Today, you can do just about anything with Google Drive. Storage and collaborating on documents in the cloud are old-fangled. Think more creatively and you can find a way to do it on Google Drive or tap into the huge habitat of third-party Drive apps that have flourished around it. Here are five such tools if you want to start thinking beyond simple documents, spreadsheets, and slides. | | Prevent Procrastination With This Chrome Extension | | Lifehacker | "I’ve found myself in a vicious cycle. Whenever I have free time to kill, I’ll rotate through the same, stale list of websites, sucking up whatever new content comes along to relieve me of my boredom. I’ll bounce between Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, and Gmail until I can finally remind myself that this is dumb," says author David Murphy. Let this Chrome extension help you curb this bad habit. |
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| | | 2019: The Year IT Makes a Comeback | | InformationWeek | It's time for IT leaders to recognize that the IT group is crucial to their companies' future growth and success, and to let the business know that IT is there to help. Our CEO David Politis explains why. |
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| | | SaaS Updates Summary: February 18 – February 22 | | BetterCloud Monitor | Didn’t catch the SaaS updates last week? Don’t worry, you didn’t miss much. Google announced a change in Hangouts notifications for Android, launched a new feature in Vault that will help you copy your chats from Mail and preserve your messages, and updated the “What’s new in G Suite?” Help Center article to make it easier to search (an update to updates? How meta). |
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