An analysis of publicly available web records shows SolarWinds hackers accessed the networks at Cox Communications and the local government in Pima County, AZ
LONDON (Reuters) - Suspected Russian hackers accessed the systems of a U.S. internet provider and a county government in Arizona …
Microsoft identified 40+ customers targeted in the SolarWinds hack, 80% in the US, says the attack is “ongoing” and calls for a global cybersecurity response
including the highest reaches of the U.S. government — is certain of exactly what the hackers had infiltrated, let alone the full extent of what was taken. https://www.bloomberg.com/... William Turton...
DOJ charges a China-based executive at Zoom with disrupting video meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre; Zoom says it terminated the employee
- Worker accused of disrupting Tiananmen Square commemorations — Zoom says it fired Xinjiang Jin after internal investigation
Sources: Microsoft is working on in-house designs for chips to run its cloud servers and Surface PCs
Microsoft Corp. is working on in-house processor designs for use in server computers that run the company's cloud services, adding to an industrywide effort to reduce reliance …
Sources: Energy Dept. and NNSA, which maintains the US nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that their networks were accessed as part of the SolarWinds hack
and secrets may still be being stolen in ways not yet discovered. https://www.axios.com/... Walter Shaub / @waltshaub : The new president is already doing what the outgoing president has consistently ...
Microsoft says compromised SolarWinds apps were on its networks but that no customer data was stolen; it denies report hackers used its systems to attack others
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Sources: hackers conducted a test run of the SolarWinds breach in October 2019, with a version of the malware that didn't have a backdoor embedded in it
Kim Zetter / Yahoo News :
Mike Pompeo says Russia is “pretty clearly” behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign, the first Trump administration official to publicly blame the country
Russia is behind the massive, ongoing cyber spy campaign against the federal government and private sector …
The only explanation for its ad campaign against Apple is that Facebook has decided shamelessness works, after years of cozying up to the Trump administration
The company declared in newspaper ads that it was “standing up to Apple.” It's a desperate ploy that's unlikely to work.
Cisco says some internal machines used by its researchers were targeted by SolarWinds hackers and that there's no known impact to Cisco's products at this time
Bloomberg :
Sony has removed Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation Store until further notice, offering full refunds to people who bought it, amid reports of it being buggy
Sony is pulling the PS4 version of the game from its digital store and offering full refunds. To my knowledge, Sony has never done something like this before, at least not for a major third-party dev ...
Stanford Medicine apologizes for its vaccine distribution plan that left out almost all of its front-line workers, blames an algorithm in an internal email
Stanford Medicine apologized on Friday for its vaccine distribution plan - a plan that came under fire for leaving out nearly …
Google says its multi-service outage on Monday was caused by updates to its account authentication system which resulted in a system usage reporting error
Google started the week with a big outage that took down Gmail, Drive, and all other Workspace apps.
Apple puts manufacturing partner Wistron on probation, after an audit found violations of Apple's Supplier Code of Conduct at Wistron's Bengaluru plant
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Apple Inc has placed supplier Wistron Corp on probation, saying on Saturday it would not award …
Apple clarifies power-saving modes of AirPods Max, says they enter low power mode after 5 minutes of non-use and ultralow power state after 18 hours in the case
Trump downplayed the massive cyberattack on the US government, claiming that China may be responsible and the “Fake News Media” is exaggerating its extent
President Trump downplayed a massive cyberattack on U.S. government departments and agencies and private companies on Twitter Saturday … Tweets: @realdonaldtrump , @oliverdarcy , @pwnallthethings , an...
China-based drone maker DJI is among the companies the US Commerce Department has added to its blacklist
official Sean O'Kane / The Verge : DJI says people can still buy and use its drones in US after export ban Brian Heater / TechCrunch : DJI added to Commerce Department ‘entity list’ Andrew Couts / Giz...
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have banned a root certificate being used by the Kazakhstan government to intercept and decrypt HTTPS traffic
This marks the second time browsers makers had to intervene and block a certificate used by the Kazakhstan government to spy on its citizens.
Leaked docs show how China stage-managed the content on its domestic internet to make coronavirus look less severe in the early days of the outbreak
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Facebook reports its 2020 election response to US lawmakers, says it took action on 265K posts and 3.3M ad submissions for violating voter interference policies
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg :
Sources: the AGs of Utah, North Carolina, and NY among others are preparing a lawsuit against Google over the cut it takes from app developers in its Play Store
- States probing Google Play's 30% in-app-purchase fees — Case would mark new front in antitrust assault against Google
Judge says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Google likely won't go to trial until late 2023
Lauren Feiner / CNBC :
Amazon launches group video and audio calling for up to seven participants on Echo devices
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Coinbase says it has confidentially filed for an IPO
Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. Mercy Tukiya Mutanya / coinspeaker.com : Goldman Sachs to Lead Coinbase IPO Justin Roberti / The Capital : The Bitcoin E...
Q&A with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke on his typical day, time management, culture, product creation, organizational design, meetings, and working from home
Sriram Krishnan / The Observer Effect : Tweets: @polina_marinova , @mcannonbrookes , @bwertz , @tobi , @harleyf , and @iamjakestream Tweets: Polina Marinova Pompliano / @polina_marinova : I mean, thi...
Following Wisconsin's rejection of subsidies to Foxconn, Foxconn said it didn't think an LCD factory was material to its contract; both parties willing to amend
Josh Dzieza / The Verge :
A new US law that goes into effect on December 20 will require ISPs to stop charging “rental” fees for equipment, such as routers, that customers own themselves
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : Tweets: @karlbode Tweets: Karl Bode / @karlbode : we needed a law that says “you can't charge people ‘rental’ fees for something they already own” because the broadband i...
Israel-based social casino game developer Playtika files for an IPO, reporting $1.8B in revenue for first 9 months of 2020 vs. $1.4B for all of 2019, 35M MAUs
We are selling shares of our common stock and the selling stockholder …
Sources: dating app Bumble has filed confidentially for an IPO, with plans for a listing around Valentine's Day
Survey: 44% of women founders and 65% of LGBTQ founders say they've been harassed, ~50% of women founders were told they would raise more money if they were men
Women Who Tech :
Music streaming may have plateaued with an average of 17.5B streams a week for the past four months, while consumption of games, TikTok, and podcasts increase
Will Page / Billboard :
H1, a professional networking platform for healthcare workers, raises $58M Series B co-led by Menlo Ventures and IVP
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
Brazil-based lending startup Creditas raises $255M, bringing the total raised to $570M and valuing it at $1.75B
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