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• Microsoft: Past patches address leaked NSA exploits

  15-04-2017 20:08
  
  Microsoft said it has already patched vulnerabilities revealed in Friday’s high-profile leak of suspected U.S. National Security Agency spying tools, meaning customers should be protected if they’ve kept their software up-to-date.Friday’s leak caused concern in the security community. The spying tools include about 20 exploits designed to hack into old versions of Windows, such as Windows XP and Windows Server 2008.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please clic
  
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• Honesty is not the best privacy policy

  15-04-2017 13:00
  
  Digital privacy invasion is more than a theoretical or actual threat to our freedoms. It's also a huge distraction.Take MIT genius Steven Smith. He's recently taken time away from his specialties of radar, sonar, and signal processing at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory to automate the pollution of his family's web traffic with thousands of arbitrary searches and sites.His code essentially lies about internet activity to whomever is listening.[ Further reading: Dead men may tell no tales, but IoT
  
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• Leaked NSA exploits plant a bull's-eye on Windows Server

  15-04-2017 02:50
  
  Friday’s release of suspected NSA spying tools is bad news for companies running Windows Server. The cyberweapons, which are now publicly available, can easily hack older versions of the OS.  The Shadow Brokers, a mysterious hacking group, leaked the files online, setting off worries that cybercriminals will incorporate them in their own hacks.  “This leak basically puts nation-state tools into the hands of anyone who wants them,” said Matthew Hickey, the director of
  
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