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Security expert publishes truth and tech details behind NBC Sochi hacking story

NBC News seems to think that “regular” users visiting the Sochi Winter Olympics go out of their way to ignore software updates, disregard security patches, and actively engage in unsafe online behavior. Some users may be slower to patch, or to allow software to update, but they would first have had to actively choose different default settings as Windows and most common software wants to automatically…
Ms. Smith’s blog

Fear hackers? Relax _ internet security in Sochi is little worse than elsewhere – Minneapolis Star Tribune

Fear hackers? Relax _ internet security in Sochi is little worse than elsewhere
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The games, like nearly all international events, have sparked a series of online calls to arms, with various branches of the nebulous Anonymous movement pledging action over issues as diverse as gay rights, Chechnya, and the destruction of stray dogs.

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