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We just received a warning from Twitter admitting that the company had made a serious security blunder: it had been storing unencrypted copies of passwords. You read that correctly: plaintext passwords, saved to disk. What an announcement to have to make on World Password Day! Any regular...

A French regulatory body has blasted Microsoft over Windows 10's habit of hoovering up plentiful user data, giving Redmond a deadline in which the firm must do something about it. This warning comes from the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), which has issued an...