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Heartbleed bug is irritating McAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky Lab

VMware promises Heartbleed patches for affected products by the weekend | Cold War sneakiness: CIA confirms using Dr. Zhivago as a weapon

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Heartbleed bug is irritating McAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky Lab
The Heartbleed Bug disclosed by the OpenSSL group on April 7 has sent many vendors scurrying to patch their products and that includes security firms Symantec, Intel Security's McAfee division, and Kaspersky Lab. Read More


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VMware promises Heartbleed patches for affected products by the weekend
VMware started patching its products against the critical Heartbleed flaw that puts encrypted communications at risk, and plans to have updates ready for all affected products by Saturday. Read More

Cold War sneakiness: CIA confirms using Dr. Zhivago as a weapon
Interesting admission from the Central Intelligence Agency as it confirmed the long-held suspicion that it indeed had a role in publishing the first Russian-language edition of Doctor Zhivago after the book had been banned in the Soviet Union in 1958. Read More

TechTips: How to remotely log out of Gmail, spot suspicious activity
TechTips: How to remotely log out of Gmail, spot suspicious activity If you've left Gmail logged in on another computer, there's a quick and easy fix. From: Network World Views: 5 1 ratings Time: 00:54 More in Science & Technology Read More


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TrueCrypt source code audit finds no critical flaws or intentional backdoors
The source code of TrueCrypt, a popular disk encryption tool, is not the most polished work of programming, but it has no critical flaws or intentional backdoors, security testers concluded in a report released Monday. Read More

FTC warning unlikely to stop Facebook from changing WhatsApp privacy policies
Despite pressure from the Federal Trade Commission, Facebook is unlikely to leave WhatsApp's stricter privacy policies intact, once government regulators approve the $19 billion acquisition, privacy experts say. Read More

Fon pitches Wi-Fi router with Spotify integration via Kickstarter
Free Wi-Fi aggregator Fon is hoping to boost the popularity of its network with the Gramofon, a router that integrates music streaming. The first service to be added is Spotify, but more are on the way. Read More


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Windows XP holdouts explain why they haven't upgraded
OK, Armageddon has passed, and I was wrong. April 9 was not the new Y2K bug. In this case, I'm glad I was wrong. However, Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows XP (and Office 2003, we often forget that) and a lot of people are still using it. RELATED: Attention Windows 8.1 users: Update 1 is not an option Read More

Top techie college commencement speakers: 2014
Bill and Melinda Gates head up list of big names in tech giving college commencement addresses Read More

Tiny camera brings big league applications to petite satellites
The European Space Agency has developed a tiny spectrum-revealing camera that can fly inside tiny satellites known as CubeSats making it ideal for many applications from agriculture to environmental research. Read More

Record and rewind: Cops quietly test aerial surveillance to track crime
Because America apparently isn't enough of a surveillance society, and aerial surveillance only works if it is "looking at the right spot," cops have been testing a new wide-area surveillance system that can watch, record and rewind every outdoor activity that happens in a city, every person, every car and every crime. It "is something of a time machine - the entire city is filmed and recorded in real... Read More

10 cool tech things you could buy instead of Google Glass
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