A cheesy FBI video hopes to stop US students from becoming Chinese spies – Washington Post (blog)


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A cheesy FBI video hopes to stop US students from becoming Chinese spies
Washington Post (blog)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's decision to make a strikingly cheesy, obviously low-budget, half-hour-long video offering U.S. students in China advice on how to avoid inadvertently becoming a spy might strike some as odd. Do people really need …
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Cyber extortionists swipe cosmetic surgery records, try to blackmail Harley Medical Group

Cyber crooks may have broken into Harley Medical Group, a cosmetic surgery firm with 21 clinics in the UK, to filch the intimate details of about 480,000 potential patients and then try to extort money from the company.
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iPad-friendly Office 365 subscription now available for $70

The newest addition to Microsoft’s range of Office 365 subscriptions is now available. For $ 6.99 a month, or $ 69.99 a year, Office 365 Personal lets you use Office on one PC or Mac and one Windows tablet or iPad.

The Personal plan slots in below the Home plan (formerly known as Home Premium), which costs $ 9.99 a month, or $ 99.99 a year, which supports five PCs or Macs and five tablets in the same house.

Both subscriptions also include 20GB of OneDrive storage and 60 minutes of global Skype calls per month. Both are also licensed only for “home” use, with “business” use requiring different subscriptions; the Small Business Premium subscription, for $ 12.50 a month or $ 150 a year, appears to be the closest equivalent.

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When student recorded bullies with iPad, school claimed it was felony wiretapping

It’s said desperate times call for desperate measures, so a desperate teenager used his school-supplied iPad to record “proof” of students bullying him during his special education math class.
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