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| | Zoom 5.0 Is a Major Update With Enhanced Encryption and More Security Options | BetaNews | Zoom Video Communications has announced details of Zoom 5.0, a major update to its video conferencing client which goes a long way to addressing many of the security and privacy issues that have been found in recent weeks. | The Secret to How Our Most Successful Customers Automate SaaSOps | BetterCloud Monitor | Thousands of IT departments around the world rely on BetterCloud to automate SaaSOps. Our platform processes close to 10,000 workflows/policies per day for those customers. Now more than ever, automation is a critical piece of any IT organization's strategy. Read about what our CEO David Politis has noticed about our most successful customers. | Zero-Day Warning: It's Possible to Hack iPhones Just by Sending Emails | The Hacker News | The default mailing app pre-installed on millions of iPhones and iPads has been found vulnerable to two critical flaws that attackers are exploiting in the wild. | Google Meet Launches Improved Zoom-like Tiled Layout, Low-light Mode, and More | TechCrunch | Google Meet, like all video chat products, is seeing rapid growth in user numbers right now, so it’s no surprise that Google is trying to capitalize on this and is quickly iterating on its product. Yesterday, it is officially launching a set of new features that include a more Zoom-like tiled layout, a low-light mode for when you have to make calls at night, and the ability to present a single Chrome tab instead of a specific window or your entire screen. Soon, Meet will also get built-in noise cancellation so nobody will hear your dog bark in the background. |
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| How to Better Protect Your Organization Against Email Threats | TechRepublic | Because mass spam emails are now both less frequent than in the past and largely blocked from reaching users, attackers have found greater success deploying more targeted types of campaigns. Released on Wednesday, the 2020 Trustwave Global Security Report looks at the latest types of email attacks and offers advice on how organizations can defend against them. | How to Fine-tune Gmail for Maximum Productivity | Computerworld | It may seem trivial, but having an interface that emphasizes the functions you use most while minimizing unnecessary clutter can go a long way in making email easier to manage—both in terms of efficiency and for the simple matter of sanity. |
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| Present High-quality Video and Audio in Google Meet | G Suite Updates | You can now share higher-quality video with audio content in a Meet video call. You can do this through a new present a Chrome tab feature. Now, when you use this feature with video content playing, everyone in the meeting will see and hear the video and audio being shared. This means you can confidently use videos, gifs, animations, and other media in your meetings. | See up to 16 Google Meet Participants at Once With Tiled Layout | G Suite Updates | You can now see up to 16 people at the same time in the tile layout option in Google Meet. |
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