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Update on Apple legal challenges (with Harry Potter #cyberpathogen reference)

Apple got good news from New York courts Monday, faced Congress on Tuesday, got widespread tech support Wednesday. Then there’s the #cyperpathogen.

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5 million Google accounts in the wild: data dump, not a hack

There are only two things you need to know about the gmail mess from Wednesday: It was not a hack of 5 million gmail accounts. Use Google to check the integrity of your account, not a third party site like isLeaked.com. And then go set up two-step authentication on your email.

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Heartbleed bug: what to do, who’s affected, who’s done what?

UPDATED: By now, you should have heard about the Heartbleed bug that decimated encryption for web servers that were using a version of OpenSSL dated December 31, 2011 or later. The latest news on this ongoing story is on my Storify. What to do? Change your passwords on accounts where you would be upset if […]