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Privacy legislation reintroduced for mail older than 180 days

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A bill has been reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would require that law enforcement agencies get a warrant before they poke around users’ emails and other communications in the cloud that are older than 180 days.

The Email Privacy Act, reintroduced on Monday, aims to fix a loophole in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act that allowed the government to search without warrant email and other electronic communications older than 180 days, stored on servers of third-party service providers such as Google and Yahoo.

“Thanks to the wording in a more than 30-year-old law, the papers in your desk are better protected than the emails in your inbox,” digital rights organization, Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a blog post Monday.

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Free computer-security session for older adults scheduled at Stockton – Press of Atlantic City

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Free computer-security session for older adults scheduled at Stockton
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FILE – In this Feb. 27, 2013, file photo illustration, hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. As tax day nears, phishing season is in full swing. The IRS says it's seen a “surge” in phishing emails in 2016. And thieves are also baiting …

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Android Security Breach: Google Able to Access Data If You’re Using Older … – Yibada (English Edition)

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Android Security Breach: Google Able to Access Data If You're Using Older Android OS Version. Eugene Smith | Nov 29, 2015 02:04 PM EST. Google can technically reset 74 percent of its android smartphones using a variety of forensic technique if the law …

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Many vulnerabilities in older Huawei 3G routers won’t get patched

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Huawei doesn’t plan to patch more than a dozen models of 3G routers that have severe software vulnerabilities.

The flaws could allow an attacker to change DNS (Domain Name System) settings, upload new firmware without logging into the device and conduct a denial-of-service attack.

The models of affected routers, distributed by ISPs in 21 countries, are now considered out of Huawei’s support cycle, said Pierre Kim, a security researcher who found the issues and listed the models on his blog.

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