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| | | | | At CES, a New Era of Hardware Addresses the Work-From-Home Shift | | CIO | Work from home has reshaped the IT attack surface, so cyber thieves and nation states are retooling in hopes of finding and exploiting new vulnerabilities. At CES last week, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, the three largest PC vendors, all unveiled a spate of new business laptops with security enhancements like hardened protection and built-in smarts to guard against ransomware, crypto-mining, and other rising threats. | | How To Avoid a Data Breach Disaster: Practical Tips for IT To Ensure Compliance and Secure the SaaS Environment | | BetterCloud | Effective compliance in a SaaS-based world has a few key tasks. Successfully complying is about having documented processes for auditors and regulators. But one major question looms over IT leaders around the world: Can you simplify SaaS security compliance? | | Citrix Is Acquiring Wrike From Vista for $2.25B | | TechCrunch | Citrix announced today that it plans to acquire Wrike, a SaaS project management platform, from Vista Equity Partners for $2.25 billion. Vista bought the company just two years ago. Citrix, which is best known for its digital workspaces, sees this as a good match, especially at a time where employees have been forced to work from home because of the pandemic. | | Fourth Malware Strain Discovered in SolarWinds Incident | | ZDNet | Cyber-security firm Symantec said it identified another malware strain that was used during the SolarWinds supply chain attack, bringing the total number to four, after the likes of Sunspot, Sunburst (Solorigate), and Teardrop. Named Raindrop, Symantec said the malware was used only during the very last stages of an intrusion, deployed only on the networks of very few selected targets. |
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| | | Beware This Text String That Can Crash Windows and 'Corrupt' Your Drive | | Lifehacker | Hackers are exploiting a strange bug that lets a simple text string ‘corrupt’ your Windows 10 or Windows XP computer’s hard drive if you extract a ZIP file, open a specific folder, or even click on a Windows shortcut. Odds are good that your data is actually fine, but you’ll still have to run chkdsk to be sure. | | How to Use the Document Outline in Google Docs | | How-To Geek | If you use Google Docs as your go-to writing application, then there’s no better way to organize your content than with the Document Outline tool. This handy feature helps you structure and navigate your document by automatically creating an outline using headings in your document. |
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| | | Best Smart Lock Suggestions? | | SaaSOps Community | Someday, we'll all go back to work in an office—at least occasionally. Jeremy Gruman wanted to know if anyone in the SaaSOps Community had any suggestions for smart locks, especially those that you can manage remotely. Check out the conversation and join in by clicking the link above. |
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| | | Resize the Chat and Rooms Sections in Gmail on the Web | | Google Workspace Updates | You can now resize the Chat and Rooms sections in the left-side navigation of Gmail on the web. This makes it easier to stay on top of your most important conversations and navigate to relevant chats faster. |
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