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• Critical zero-days make September's Patch Tuesday a 'Patch Now' release

  16-09-2022 21:36
  With 63 updates affecting Windows, Microsoft Office and the Visual Studio and .NET platforms — and reports of three publicly exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-37969, CVE-2022-34713, CVE-2021-40444) — this month's Patch Tuesday release gets a "Patch Now" priority. Key testing areas include printing, Microsoft Word, and in general application un-installations. (The Microsoft Office, .NET and browser updates can be added to your standard release schedules.)To read this article in ful
  
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• What's new in Notifications in iOS 16?

  16-09-2022 17:02
  If you’ve switched to iOS 16, you’ve probably already realized Apple has tweaked the system. Notifications now appear at the bottom of the display and there are other changes that must be learned.We all use them, we all need them
  With the recent introduction of iOS 16 and the extent to which mobile pros depend on notifications — and the arrival today of the new iPhone 14 line-up — this is a ood time to look at how Apple has changed the system.To read this article in full
  
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• Go Ahead, Ask for Help. It Makes People Happy - GovExec.com

  16-09-2022 14:00 via govexec.com
  Go Ahead, Ask for Help. It Makes People Happy  GovExec.com
  
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• Sadly, IT can no longer trust geolocation for much of anything

  16-09-2022 12:00
  Geolocation was once a glorious way to know who your company is dealing with (and sometimes what they are doing). Then VPNs started to undermine that. And now, things have gotten so bad that the Apple App Store and Google Play both offer apps that unashamedly declare they can spoof locations — and neither mobile OS vendor does anything to stop it.Why? It seems both Apple and Google created the holes these developers are using.In a nutshell, Apple and Google — to test their apps acro
  
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