ZDNet | A new variant of the Houdini malware has been detected in campaigns against financial institutions and their customers.

BetterCloud Monitor | Mergers and acquisitions are notoriously difficult. IT is tasked with a laundry list of post-merger assignments, too. What applications in the technology stack do we keep, and how do we integrate duplicate systems? How do we keep an accurate list of which employees are staying and which are going? How do we avoid technological disruptions to end users and customers? What are the roles for everyone on the newly integrated IT staff? BetterCloud is no panacea for the agglomeration of work required by IT for a successful merger, but there are ways the platform can help.

WIRED | At this point, you're probably keeping an eye out for possible phishing messages in your email. You know the drill: If you have any doubts, don't click links or download attachments. That's difficult enough to adhere to in practice. Now, thanks to new findings from the threat intelligence firm Kaspersky, along with phishing texts, phishing tweets, and phishing pop-ups, you need to worry about one more thing: phishing in your calendar.

CNET | Get ready for Google to take on the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy in 2019.

MakeUseOf | We’ve all used USB sticks to transport files between computers and back up our files, but there are other cool things you can do with a USB stick. You can use one to lock and unlock your computer—just like in the movies.You can also use a USB flash drive to quickly connect to a wireless network on all your PCs, increase your computer’s performance, or even run a web server—directly from the USB stick itself. Here are several surprising ways you can use a USB flash drive.

Security Boulevard | For years, security teams have developed strategies around a confined, controlled environment, building infrastructure into place to keep data secured—yet we continue to read about breaches, infections and data loss. The growing number of remote American workers continues to increase with no signs of a slowdown, so it’s only a matter of time before that data breach or malware exploit happens to you (if it hasn’t already). In order for you to confidently let workers roam, Security Boulevard offers some tips to help you develop a security plan to keep your data, intellectual property and access secure.

BetterCloud Monitor | Last week Google made presentations a little less nerve-racking with new features in Slides and made life a little easier for teachers with the general release of Gradebook in Classroom. Catch up on the other SaaS updates that Google made last week.