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Success! (in more ways than one)

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 03:00:00 -0700

Government office is rolling out remote desktop connections over VPN for some of its users, and not everyone is jumping on board, reports a pilot fish working there.

“I was staffing our support desk when one of these users called in from home, two weeks after we had set up the provisioning task for him,” fish says.

“He admitted he wasn’t the most proficient with computers, so he had his wife with him to help, and wanted to get going on the process.”

Fish explains the steps, and quickly determines that the user didn’t respond to the provisioning task until the day before — when it had already expired.

No problem, fish says, I’ll regenerate the task. That will take an hour, but in the meantime I can remote into your laptop and we can make sure it meets the minimum requirements.

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Android 8.0 in-depth: Oreo's not-so-obvious security enhancements

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:01:00 -0700

When you read about a splashy new software update like Google’s fresh-from-the-oven Android 8.0 Oreo release, you tend to hear mostly about the marquee features — the most attention-grabbing elements and refinements you’re likely to notice when you get the update on your own device.

It’s understandable, since those are the things we all see most immediately and directly. Beneath the surface, though, Oreo has some pretty significant stuff going on in the realm of security — stuff that hasn’t been widely covered but is as important as anything else to understand.

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