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Late last week, I talked about a discrepancy in Microsoftpromised handling of Microsoft Security Essentials as Windows 7 reaches end of support. An internally inconsistent official announcement seemed to say that MSE signature file updates would stop — even for those who have paid for Extended Security Updates.
Which is absurd. Why would Microsoft stop updating its antivirus program even for people who are paying to continue receiving Monthly Rollup patches?
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There is nothing more quintessentially mobile than text messages, the most commonly used communication method today. That's why it was very unsettling that a security research house found — and the vendor at issue essentially confirmed — that a massive number of text messages were stored in plaintext, with no security at all. In short, the texts from what the security research firm estimated were "hundreds of millions of people" were open to any thief or stalker who wanted to look.
The company involved, an Austin-based business called TrueDialog, would likely be unknown to almost all of those users. TrueDialog is a marketing firm offering SMS products and services to other companies — a lot of companies. That will make it hard for consumers to even know if their texts were victimized. Text message users were able to text back, giving the impression of having two-way conversations with businesses.
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Atlassian has created a new development platform, Forge, to simplify creation of third-party apps that connect to its suite of productivity tools.
The Australian firm offers a variety of project management and collaboration apps, including Jira Software, Confluence, Trello and Bitbucket. It also claims to have one of the biggest developer ecosystems among software-as-a-service vendors: the Atlassian Marketplace has more than 4,000 apps and accounts for more than $1 billion in total sales since its launch in 2012; thousands more apps have been created by in-house developers for internal use at customer organizations.
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Itafter hours at a surgery center, and pilot fish who has been working on the computers, decides to wander through the back passageways and learn the layout.
Passing through a set of double doors, fish finds himself in a hallway with bathrooms and storage. The doors at the far end lead toward the front, so he heads that way — but they're locked. And you need a code to open them. Fish heads back to the doors he came in by — locked as well. Another door leads to the outside, but itreally cold out, and fish would have to walk all the way around a big building with no jacket.
So he calls the office manager's cell phone: Hey, man, I appear to have locked myself in a hallway
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Chat-based collaboration software is a must-have in today's business environment, with Slack and Microsoft Teams the two leading options for the enterprise. The stakes couldn&t be higher. As a one-product company, Slack, which went public in June, can&t afford to lose ground to behemoth Microsoft, which has the advantage of a gazillion revenue streams to rely upon and is giving Teams away for free in most Office 365 and Microsoft 365 plans.
Slack vs. Teams: Mobile apps
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Microsoft has revived a practice from the heydays of Internet Explorer (IE), releasing tools to block the new all-Chromium Edge from automatically reaching Windows 10 PCs starting next month.
When deployed and run, the Blocker Toolkit will retain the original Edge, the one built with Microsoft's homegrown rendering and JavaScript engines and bundled with Windows 10 since its mid-2015 debut. Its tools, like other such kits before it, included a very small executable to run locally, as well as an administrative template that IT admins can use to broadly block original-Edge through Group Policy settings.
[ Related: Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration guide ]Microsoft issued similar toolkits for IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10 and IE11 prior to the public release of those browsers, usually as a sop to business customers who don't want to disrupt workflows with a new application they has not yet tested. The toolkits became progressively more important because Microsoft accelerated the IE development and release tempo and changed how it distributed the browser.
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