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White House hackers accessed schedule of President Obama’s whereabouts
It’s unclassified, but it’s still highly sensitive, officials say. It’s just one non-public set of data gleaned by intruders who may have slipped in via the State Department’s system. 
Snapchat issues first transparency report on law enforcement data requests
It’s a big step forward in transparency for Snapchat, which formerly described its service in a way that might lead users to think turning over their content to law enforcement would be impossible.
Has Uber scored an executive touchdown? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
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Uber gets its first chief security officer – Facebook’s Joe Sullivan
Uber just poached Facebook’s Joe Sullivan to act as the ride-hailing app company’s first chief security officer. It might make you wonder – why didn’t Uber have a CSO before now?
How one man could have deleted every video on YouTube
Kamil Hismatullin fought his desperate urge to delete all things Justin Bieber, he said.
Twitter’s new Periscope app takes a user privacy hit
If a user forgets to turn off the Twitter button before broadcasting a private video stream, the title gets shared with all the user’s followers.
G20 delegates’ personal data breached in autofill email glitch
The Australian immigration department sent an email to the wrong person, and so passport and visa details for the world’s head honchos got disclosed – a mistake the department decided didn’t warrant disclosure.
World Backup Day – is your data safe enough?
Ransomware has made us all aware of the value of backups – but there are many other reasons to have a copy of your vital data in reserve!
Slack gets hacked – rolls out two-factor authentication after user database breach
Slack is the latest start-up to make a big media splash in one of the worst possible ways – by acknowledging a data breach that exposed its users to malicious hackers.