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In rare unanimous move, House passes bill to protect email and cloud privacy

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The U.S. House of Representatives, in a rare unanimous vote, has approved a bill to strengthen privacy protections for email and other data stored in the cloud.

The Email Privacy Act would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered warrants to search email and other data stored with third parties for longer than six months. The House on Wednesday voted 419-0 to pass the legislation and send it to the Senate.

The bill, with 314 cosponsors in the House, would update a 30-year-old law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Some privacy advocates and tech companies have been pushing Congress to update ECPA since 2011.

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Sophos takes rare step of citing Microsoft flaw as a must-fix

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Sophos generally steers clear of pointing to a single patch from Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, but is breaking its own rule this month by highlighting one it says can prevent a world of hurt.

The patch – MS15-034 – addresses a bug that could allow remote-code execution on a victim machine, and that can be exploited via any application using Microsoft’s http stack, according to the Sophos Naked Security blog.

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Advanced Persistent Threats Rare, But We’re Still Unprepared – PC Magazine

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Advanced Persistent Threats Rare, But We're Still Unprepared
PC Magazine
These multi-step attacks, like Flame and Stuxnet, are in sharp contrast to the scatter-shot approach of most attackers that are designed to reach as many victims as possible. However, Fortinet … Of cleaning up a data breach or a rampant malware attack?".

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A Very Rare Video of Steve Jobs Telling the History of Apple (Jesus Diaz/Gizmodo)

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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
A Very Rare Video of Steve Jobs Telling the History of Apple  —  This very rare video was recorded in the 1980s.  It shows Steve Jobs talking about the origin of Apple.  It’s fascinating to see how he hints at the Next Big Thing, back when the Macintosh was still a secret project in development.

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