Day: March 14, 2017

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – March 2017

This month the vendor is releasing 18 bulletins, nine of which are rated Critical. Publish to Facebook:  No Twitter Card Style:  summary Hello, welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This month the vendor is releasing 18 bulletins, nine of which are rated Critical. As always, customers are advised to follow these

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The NSA's foreign surveillance: 5 things to know

A contentious piece of U.S. law giving the National Security Agency broad authority to spy on people overseas expires at the end of the year. Expect heated debate about the scope of U.S. surveillance law leading up to Dec. 31. One major issue to watch involves the way the surveillance treats communications from U.S. residents.

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Facebook bars developers from using data feeds for spying tools

Law enforcement officials are interested in software tools that can scan social media feeds for information that could be used to track and monitor potential criminals. To deter developers from building such tools, Facebook and Instagram have updated their policies explicitly banning developers from using user data from their platforms. “Developers cannot ‘use data obtained

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