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Google mandates two years of security updates for popular phones in new Android contract

  1. Google mandates two years of security updates for popular phones in new Android contract  The Verge
  2. Popular Android devices must receive two years of security updates  Engadget
  3. Google is mandating major OEMs offer 2 years of Android security updates  XDA Developers (blog)
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Verizon and striking unions reach tentative contract agreement

Some 40,000 striking Verizon workers are poised to resume their regular job duties next week after their unions and the company reached a tentative contract agreement today.

The strike has caused widespread service and installation delays, concerns among corporate customers that their needs would be neglected, as well as violent confrontations and allegations of vandalism and sabotage.

Though the details of the pact have yet to be made public, it reportedly will run for four years and for the first time cover Verizon Wireless workers.

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$10m NSA contract with security firm RSA led to encryption ‘back door’ – The Guardian


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$ 10m NSA contract with security firm RSA led to encryption 'back door'
The Guardian
As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the National Security Agency arranged a secret $ 10m contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, 
NSA gave major computer security firm RSA $ 10 mln to weaken encryption – reportThe Voice of Russia

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Norwich University gets contract for cyber war game – WCAX

Norwich University gets contract for cyber war game
WCAX
NORTHFIELD, Vt. (AP) – Vermont's Norwich University is getting $ 9.9 million from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to continue working on a cyberwarfare gaming system. Norwich's Applied Research Institutes will use the money to continue 

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