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Sony Threatens to Sue Twitter Unless It Removes Tweets Containing Hacked Emails — Sony's battle on people disseminating its hacked and leaked emails has extended from news outlets to random Twitter users to, now, Twitter itself. Sony's lawyer has threatened Twitter with legal action …
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See also Mediagazer| Steven Sinofsky / Learning by Shipping: |
Sony breach highlights need to move away from insecure legacy OS architecture to mobile apps and cloud services — Why Sony's Breach Matters — This past year has seen more wide-spread, massive-scale, and damaging computer system breaches than any time in history.
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North Korean Internet Access Restored After Hours-Long Outage — North Korea's access to the Internet has been hit with outages and is offline today, according to a network-monitoring company, days after the U.S. government accused the country of hacking into Sony Corp.'s files.
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JPMorgan data breach entry point identified: one server didn't use two-factor authentication — Neglected Server Provided Entry for JPMorgan Hackers — The computer breach at JPMorgan Chase this summer — the largest intrusion of an American bank to date — might have been thwarted …
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| Jodi Kantor / New York Times: |
How the gender gap in tech played out at the dawn of the web boom for Stanford's class of 1994 — A Brand New World In Which Men Ruled — Instead of narrowing gender gaps, the technology industry created vast new ones for Stanford University's pioneering class of 1994.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases critical NTP Security Update for OS X Yosemite, Mavericks, & Mountain Lion — Apple today released an OS X NTP Security Update for Mac users running 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, and 10.8 Mountain Lion. The update is recommended for all users and fixes a …
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| Dennis Fisher / Threatpost: |
Exploits Circulating for Remote Code Execution Flaws in NTP Protocol — Researchers at Google have uncovered several serious vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol and experts warn that there are exploits publicly available for some of the bugs. — The vulnerabilities are present …
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| Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors: |
Apple-led Rockstar Consortium sells remaining patent portfolio to RPX for $900M, drops existing lawsuits against Samsung, LG, and HTC — Apple-Led Rockstar Consortium Sells Remaining Patent Portfolio for $900 Million — San Francisco patent company RPX today announced it is purchasing …
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| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Apple reopens Russian online store after boosting iPhone 6 price by 35% — Apple raised the price of its entry-level iPhone 6 by 35% when it reopened its Russian online story today. — Last week, the Cupertino, Calif. company shuttered its Russian e-market after the ruble took a dive …
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
After Google suit, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood backs off Google investigation pushed by MPAA — Mississippi AG backs off Google investigation pushed by MPAA — It appears that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is making a strategic retreat in the wake of publicity about his investigation of Google.
| Jenn Chen / Lyft Blog: |
Lyft updates app, lets you split payments with up to 5 friends — Divvy It Up with Split Payments — Rally the whole crew, because payment splitting is live in the Lyft app! Now you can split the cost of your rides, making going out easier than ever. — To start dividing and conquering … | Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Tweet Analytics Now Available in Twitter for iPhone — I noticed some users tweeting about mobile tweet analytics over the past couple of weeks, and today Twitter has officialized the rollout: … It's nice that I can look at analytics directly from the Twitter app for iPhone … Sponsor Posts
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