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Extra! Fortune On Sony Hacks

Six months after the revelation that computer hackers had targeted Sony, leading to the release of a range of confidential information, Fortune has published an extensive investigative piece about the failure that led to the massive breach of security.

Read the first installment of the three-part series HERE.

After the November revelations — which included private emails, scripts of unreleased films and staff salaries — cyber-security experts were called in to better understand how the company had been compromised. Once inside the headquarters, the Norse Corp security experts were stunned by the striking lack of security in their Info Sec department. As one of them explains, the janitor could have walked in the room and taken control of the system.

Fortune's investigation was led by correspondent Peter Elkind, and includes interviews with present and past Sony executives, cyber-security experts and law enforcement officials. With the Sony example in mind, Elkind also tackles the wider subject of American companies' preparedness regarding this new type of threat.

ABOUT THE SOURCE: Fortune is a national triweekly American business magazine published by Time Inc. The magazine was founded in 1929 by Henry Luce.

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Mapping The Patriarchy: Where Nine Out Of 10 Streets Are Named After Men

The Mapping Diversity platform examined maps of 30 cities across 17 European countries, finding that women are severely underrepresented in the group of those who name streets and squares. The one (unsurprising) exception: The Virgin Mary.

Photo of Via della Madonna dei Monti in Rome, Italy.

Via della Madonna dei Monti in Rome, Italy.

Eugenia Nicolosi

ROME — The culture at the root of violence and discrimination against women is not taught in school, but is perpetuated day after day in the world around us: from commercial to cultural products, from advertising to toys. Even the public spaces we pass through every day, for example, are almost exclusively dedicated to men: war heroes, composers, scientists and poets are everywhere, a constant reminder of the value society gives them.

For the past few years, the study of urban planning has been intertwined with that of feminist toponymy — the study of the importance of names, and how and why we name things.

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