Privacy jitters derail controversial K-12 big data initiative

Computerworld Security: April 25, 2014
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Privacy jitters derail controversial K-12 big data initiative

Unrelenting privacy concerns finally derailed a controversial big data
initiative that promised to deliver more individualized instruction to public
school students in the U.S.
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Top vendors join to bolster OpenSSL, other open source projects, after Heartbleed

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Here comes the black market for XP patches

For most people, XP patches will be unobtainable through legitimate channels.
Sounds like a market to me.
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Apple users were left at risk by 3-week delay between OS X and iOS patches

Apple exposed iOS users to security threats by taking three weeks longer to
patch the same vulnerabilities in the mobile OS that it previously fixed in
Safari on OS X, a former Apple security engineer said.
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