Weekly Monitor Digest: Last Week's Top Stories (6/3 - 6/7)

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Quest Diagnostics Says 11.9 Million Patients Affected by Data Breach

TechCrunch | Medical testing giant Quest Diagnostics has confirmed a third-party billing company has been hit by a data breach affecting 11.9 million patients. According to the filing, the breach was a result of malicious activity on the payment pages of the American Medical Collection Agency, a third-party collections vendor for Quest.

Product Tip: Time’s Up—Ensuring Admins Have the Proper Access at the Proper Times

BetterCloud Monitor | BetterCloud is committed to helping you implement a least privilege model—a security best practice—in your SaaS environment. Time-based roles allow you to delegate admin access to BetterCloud for a set amount of time, ensuring that users won't retain elevated access any longer than they need.

Mozilla Firefox Now Stops Websites, Advertisers from Tracking You

CNET | After more than a year ratcheting up its privacy protections, Firefox now blocks website cookies that can let advertisers and publishers track you across the web.

Hackers Can Now Bypass Two-factor Authentication With a New Kind of Phishing Scam

Fortune | Two-factor authentication has traditionally worked to keep usernames and passwords safe from phishing attacks. However, security experts have demonstrated an automated phishing attack that can cut through that added layer of security—also called 2FA—potentially tricking unsuspecting users into sharing their private credentials.

Tips & Tricks for the Digital Workplace

Is it Actually Bad to Have 100 Browser Tabs Open?

How-To Geek | Through all of human history, a mess of tabs has been a sign of poor productivity. But that 100-tab habit could be the secret to your productivity, so long as you have the right extensions and hardware.

10 Productivity Hacks from WIRED Staff

WIRED | Here are some strategies and apps WIRED staffers use to optimize their work/time ratio.

SaaS Updates Summary: June 3 – June 7

BetterCloud Monitor | We saw a number of G Suite updates last week. Smart compose is now available on Android and iOS, Work Insights adoption and collaboration tools are generally available, and Vault has a new beta program that allows you to search and export content in Google Sites. Read up on the rest of the SaaS updates.

Redditor Claims Macbook Pro Exploded During 'Normal Use'
Exploding gadgets aren't a new phenomenon, but a video showed just how terrifying it can be.

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