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Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Secret Documents Reveal The CIA Has Been Hacking iPhones Since 2006 According to The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley, CIA-affiliated security researchers have worked since at least 2006 to target security keys used to encrypt data on Apple devices.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	It's On: Wikimedia Sues The NSA The Wikimedia Foundation, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, is suing the U.S. National Security Agency in a bid to challenge mass surveillance of Internet communications, Reuters reports.
CRM March 2015 Oren Smilansky	Companies Gear Up for the IoT Revolution There's rising consumer demand for -- and acceptance of -- connected devices.
Fast Company David Lumb	Twitter Hopes To Become Friendlier, Triples Its Abuse-Handling Team Critics have backed Twitter into a corner for its lax policing of abuse -- and in response, Twitter has tripled its abuse report-handling team and now fields five times as many abuse reports as before.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	And The Awards For The Most Illegally Downloaded Oscar Movies Go To... Piracy remains a challenge for the film industry, whose wares make up a significant portion of illegal downloads overall.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	The Latest Privacy Risk? Looking Up Medical Information Online If you have cancer, HIV, diabetes, lupus, depression, heart disease -- or you simply look up health-related information online -- advertisers are watching you.
Fast Company Glenn Fleishman	The Worst Thing About Lenovo's Adware Isn't The Adware Full understanding of what happened requires further explanation by Lenovo. But even the least alarming scenario is a great big deal.
Information Today February 19, 2015	New Report Shows Importance of Monitoring the Dark Web The Global Commission on Internet Governance issued a working paper, "The Impact of the Dark Web on Internet Governance and Cyber Security."
Fast Company David Lumb	Why Facebook's New Cybersecurity Site Is Trouble For Obama Obama has recently pushed for private companies to share information with the government when they face cyberattacks, both to mitigate the damage of the breach and, ideally, to prevent similar hacks in the future.
Fast Company Luke Dormehl	Google, Facebook, and Yahoo Shun Obama Cybersecurity Summit President Obama spoke at the Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection. The urgent theme that surfaced was the importance of the public and private sectors working together.
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