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Consumers sue Microsoft, allege Windows 10 upgrade destroyed data, damaged PCs

28

Mar

2017

Three people from Illinois last week sued Microsoft, claiming that the free Windows 10 upgrade they had installed on their PCs caused “data loss and damage to their computers.” Lawyers for the trio asked a Chicago federal court Thursday to grant the case class-action status, which would allow other Americans to join the litigation.

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France Abandons Plans for Internet Voting

16

Mar

2017

Some good election security news for a change: France is dropping its plans for remote Internet voting, because it’s concerned about hacking.

As a commentator adds, “The French prior experience with electronic internal party primary elections for selecting leaders or candidates didn’t go very well.”

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DOJ: No, we won’t say how much the FBI paid to hack terrorist’s iPhone

15

Mar

2017

The U.S. Department of Justice yesterday argued that it should not have to reveal the maker of a tool used last year to crack an alleged terrorist’s iPhone or disclose how much it paid for the hacking job, court documents showed. That tool was used last year by the FBI to access a password-protected iPhone […]

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