The Twitter attack may have been perpetrated by Joseph James Connor, a 21-year-old English SIM swapper linked to a group that hijacked @jack's account last year
Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world's most recognizable public figures …
[Thread] Twitter says a “coordinated social engineering attack” against employees with access to internal systems and tools allowed hackers to hijack accounts
Our investigation is still ongoing but here's what we know so far:
Hackers pushing a crypto scam hijacked Twitter accounts for Bitcoin, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Ripple, Binance, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Apple, more
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday by attackers who used the accounts …
Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $6.15B, up 24.9% YoY, and expects 2.5M net subscriber additions for Q3 vs analyst estimates of 5.27M; stock down 9%+ after hours
- Analysts counted Netflix among the safer bets during stay-at-home orders in the U.S. and the company showed substantial subscriber growth last quarter.
Microsoft says it is halting production of its Xbox One X and Xbox One S All-Digital Edition consoles, ahead of Series X launch
The Xbox One S will continue to be manufactured — Microsoft is officially halting production of its Xbox One X and Xbox One S All-Digital Edition consoles.
Sources: the FBI is leading a federal inquiry into the Twitter hack
don't have sensitive conversations in Twitter DMs. Move that stuff to Signal. You don't know who'll be in charge of Twitter five, ten, or twenty years from now. Remember the example of LiveJournal. ht...
Netflix names Ted Sarandos co-CEO, appoints Chief Product Officer Greg Peters as COO
Netflix names Ted Sarandos co-CEO
Pegatron, the second-largest iPhone assembler, is setting up a local subsidiary in India, joining rivals Foxconn and Wistron
Apple Inc. assembly partner Pegatron Corp. is making preparations for its first plant in India, adding to a large influx of foreign tech investments in the country this year.
Twitter says 130 accounts were affected in Wednesday's hack, and the attackers were able to gain control and send tweets from a small subset of those accounts
Social network investigating whether users' private data was compromised — More than a hundred high-profile Twitter accounts have been hacked …
Apple updates its Style Guide with more inclusive language, such as replacing blacklist/whitelist with deny list/allow list and master branch with main branch
Apple has joined an industry trend toward more inclusive language in its technical domain, replacing terms with racial overtones like a …
Twitter unveils a new, fully rebuilt developer API with features like conversation threading, poll results in tweets, and pinned tweets, launching next week
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
The hack on Twitter provides more ammunition for critics who question Twitter's engineering prowess, poor management practices, and anemic financial performance
Tae Kim / Bloomberg : Tweets: @kantrowitz , @bobonmarkets , and @bopinion Tweets: Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : I doubt Elliott would be a responsible steward of this platform. They are sharks with...
Following the Twitter attack, Google appears to have dropped Twitter carousel boxes from displaying in Search results
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land :
Twitter says it found no evidence hackers gained access to user passwords but is locking accounts that reset passwords in past 30 days
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @tayhatmaker , @oneunderscore__ , @billt , and @zackwhittaker Tweets: Taylor Hatmaker / @tayhatmaker : still no assurance that DMs weren't compromised https://twitte...
US lawmakers express worry about future attacks on Twitter's infrastructure; sources: Twitter stepped up its search for a chief infosec officer in recent weeks
Joseph Menn / Reuters :
DHS' CISA issues its third ever emergency order, giving agencies 24 hours to patch or mitigate the “wormable” Windows DNS Server vulnerability
The Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity division on Thursday ordered federal civilian agencies to apply a security fix …
A purported 360-degree render of the rumored Samsung Galaxy Note 20 leaks
We've seen a lot of Samsung's Note 20 Ultra to date, but there haven't been any notable appearances of the smaller model. Today, a detailed 3D render of the Galaxy Note 20 has hit the web, giving us ...
Sensor Tower: US App Store's downloads have surpassed China's for the first time since 2014, seeing a 27.4% YoY growth compared to 2.1% YoY in China
The U.S. App Store's downloads have surpassed China's downloads for the first time since 2014, in a new milestone.
AG Barr accuses Apple, Google, and Microsoft of collaboration with CCP, says iPhones wouldn't be sold in China if they were “impervious to penetration” by China
US and UK say state-backed Russian hacking group APT29 is responsible for ongoing cyberattacks against orgs involved in the development of coronavirus vaccines
Wall Street Journal :
EU's top court strikes down flagship EU-US data transfer mechanism Privacy Shield, in a ruling that could impact thousands of companies including Facebook
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
In a leaked bulletin from May, DHS indicated concern that the widespread use of masks could interfere with police facial recognition systems
While doctors and politicians still struggle to convince Americans to take the barest of precautions against Covid-19 by wearing a mask …
US District Judge says WhatsApp's malware case against NSO Group can move forward, rejecting NSO's claim that it qualified for foreign official immunity
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg :
Sources: AirPods and Apple Watch assembler Luxshare buys an iPhone assembly plant from Wistron in Kushan, China for ~$472M
Nikkei Asian Review :
IBM's X-Force security team says it has obtained five hours of screen recordings from Iran-linked hacking group ITG18 that were uploaded to an exposed server
Andy Greenberg / Wired :
T-Mobile announces ScamShield, a free service to block robocalls for all T-Mobile, Metro, and Sprint customers
Ina Fried / Axios :
Public records show the US Internal Revenue Service signed a deal, on July 15, with Coinbase to use its blockchain tracing software for one year, for $124,950
Michael McSweeney / The Block :
Hulu is launching Ad Manager, a self-service tool targeted at SMBs with an ad budget of $500 or more, to make it easy to buy ads on its service
Megan Graham / CNBC : Tweets: @megancgraham , @kidkapital , and @joshelman See also Mediagazer Tweets: Meg Graham / @megancgraham : Hulu says it has “long enjoyed collaborating with many of the top 2...
Instacart sues Uber-owned Cornershop, one of the largest delivery apps in Latin America, alleging theft of product images, descriptions, and pricing info
Dave Lee / Financial Times :
EU antitrust regulators launch sectorial inquiry into IoT, including interoperability of devices and how smart assistants like Siri or Alexa use collected data
and now sweeping regulation is on the table. Preambles saying “I am not a human” is considered. https://twitter.com/... Dan Stoller / @realdanstoller : New: Voice assistants and the so-called internet...
An overview of Microsoft's various services for law enforcement, including the Domain Awareness System, a mass surveillance platform it first built for the NYPD
Michael Kwet / The Intercept : Tweets: @culturejedi and @theintercept Tweets: Malkia Devich-Cyril / @culturejedi : “But Microsoft, which has largely escaped criticism, is knee-deep in services for la...
Activ Surgical, whose AI-enabled service provides real-time intelligence and visualization to surgeons, raises $15M, bringing its total raised to $32M
Greg Nichols / ZDNet :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
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