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1) FEATURED: The Data Breach Game -- The 9 Worst IT Security Practices

By Joey D'Antoni

As news of yet another data breach breaks this week, I thought it would be fun to make a game out of the various ways data gets breached.

I even decided to get fancy and made a pretty graphic; you can print out the .PDF version so you can play at home, since the ransomware your CEO downloaded to his iPad has locked your company out of its office badging system.

Let's walk through each of these vulnerabilities. Some of these are more real-world than others, but they are all terrible practices.

1. Credential Reuse
Do you have one service account for all of your production servers? Or worse -- I saw this at a client once -- do you have linked servers between all of your database servers, and have those accounts logging in as the system admin? To take this a step further, in your personal life...

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3) Posey's Tips & Tricks: How To Make Office 365 Planner Acknowledge Recurring Tasks

By Brien Posey

For over a year now, I have been using Microsoft Office 365 Planner to manage my writing schedule. Although I was a little bit skeptical of the app at first, I have found that it is very well-suited to helping me manage the dozens of columns that I write each month. The thing that I like best about Planner is that it allows you to arrange tasks by due date, thereby making it a lot easier for me to know which assignment is due next.

Although my experiences with using Planner have been mostly positive, there is one aspect that I haven't been particularly fond of: Planner doesn't have a recurrence feature. In other words, when you create a task within Planner, there isn't a way to tell Planner that the same task will have to be done again next month.

Even though task recurrence would seem to be a really simple thing, I kind of get why Microsoft didn't include it...