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Does Southwest’s new ‘password’ commercial need to get away?

If you watched any football yesterday, chances are you saw the latest in Southwest Airlines’ “Wanna get away?” commercial series, this one featuring a military general and his comical willingness to surrender his network access password.

While funny on its face, the commercial is not exactly a lesson in proper password management. Watch or read the transcript that follows:

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Cyanogen mods self away from full Android alternative – The Register


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Cyanogen mods self away from full Android alternative
The Register
Android alternative Cyanogen looks to have given up on trying to sell a full mobile operating system. The shine has gone off the outfit of late, and in July, it reportedly axed 30 staffers. While there's a core of users who stick with the CyanogenMod
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Alleged NSA hackers probably gave away a small fortune by leaking exploits

Anonymous hackers probably gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential sales in the black market when they leaked valuable cyberweapons allegedly stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency.

The hackers, known as the Shadow Brokers, posted a sample file of the cyberweapons earlier this month and at least some of them appear to be zero-day exploits, or attacks that rely on software defects that practically no one knew about.

Before they were publicly leaked, each of these zero-day exploits could have sold for a great deal of money, according to security researchers. They’re designed to affect firewall and router products from Cisco, Juniper Networks and Fortinet, in addition to those from Chinese vendors.

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“Science fiction cyber-war is here”: Alex Gibney on “Zero Days” and Stuxnet, the secret weapon that got away – Salon


Salon

“Science fiction cyberwar is here”: Alex Gibney on “Zero Days” and Stuxnet, the secret weapon that got away
Salon
It was that second, Israeli-modified version that escaped from containment, infected computer networks all over the world, and introduced all of us to the idea that cyberwarfare was more than a metaphor or a science-fiction plot device. That was the
How the Next World War Could StartAlterNet

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