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LinkedIn Data Breach From 2012 Comes Back to Haunt Users – ABC News

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LinkedIn Data Breach From 2012 Comes Back to Haunt Users
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LinkedIn Lost 167 Million Account Credentials in Data BreachFortune
LinkedIn Says Hackers Are Trying to Sell Fruits of Huge 2012 Data BreachNew York Times
LinkedIn resetting passwords after 2012 data breachIrish Examiner
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Tor, TrueCrypt, Tails topped the NSA’s ‘most wanted’ list in 2012

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Three out of three? That could be the score for the U.S. National Security Agency’s cryptographic “most wanted” list of 2012.

In January 2012, it saw Internet traffic anonymizing tool Tor (The Onion Router), Linux distribution Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) and disk encryption system TrueCrypt as the biggest threats to its ability to intercept Internet traffic and interpret other information it acquires.

Since then, flaws have been found in Tor and the FBI has unmasked Tor users and a vulnerability was found in Tails allowing attackers to determine users’ IP addresses.

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Windows 8.1. Update required for future Windows 8.1, Server 2012 R2 security patches

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Today is the last batch of security updates for Windows XP, so if you need them then go get MS14-018 and MS14-019. You are also reminded that MS14-017 and MS14-020 are the final updates for Office 2003.
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Cops asked wireless carriers for over 1.1 million customer cellphone records in 2012

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Wireless carriers told Senator Edward Markey that they received 1.1 million requests for cell phone data information from law enforcement agencies in 2012. The number may appear to be less than the 1.3 million total requests for 2011, but don’t get excited; giving you a comparable answer is not possible, since Sprint – the third largest carrier in the U.S. – chose to give a sneaky answer instead of…
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