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 …
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Experts say the SolarWinds hack shows that the US still has no good answers to combat “supply chain” attacks, which are “ridiculously difficult” to detect
Despite years of warning, the US still has no good answer for the sort of “supply chain” attack that let Russia run wild.
Mike Pompeo says Russia is “pretty clearly” behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign, the first Trump administration official to publicly blame the country
and Chose Not to Fix Them Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC News : Secretary of State Pompeo says hack was ‘pretty clearly’ Russian Oriana Gonzalez / Axios : Pompeo says Russia is “pretty clearly” behind c...
DOJ charges a China-based executive at Zoom with disrupting video meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre; Zoom says it terminated the employee
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US officials say the hacking campaign involving SolarWinds would likely still be undetected if not for a security alert at FireEye that triggered scrutiny
Wall Street Journal :
WH officials propose ending the “dual-hat” leadership arrangement of NSA and Cyber Command, renewing debate over splitting up the agencies amid recent attacks
An end to the “dual hat” arrangement has been debated for years — but the timing raises questions.
Microsoft details the Solorigate DLL file that was used to install a backdoor in SolarWinds Orion and reveals it discovered additional malware affecting Orion
- Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team — Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) — We, along with the security industry …
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 :
Apple has closed nearly 100 stores globally since December 14, including in London, California, and Tennessee, as COVID-19 cases surge
New COVID-19 restrictions and worsening outbreaks have compelled Apple to temporarily close nearly one fifth of its retail stores during one of the busiest shopping weeks of the holiday season.
Sources: Microsoft is working on in-house designs for chips to run its cloud servers and Surface PCs
like Apple Silicon Steve Troughton-Smith / @stroughtonsmith : ARM Windows machines exist today; they're slow, have vast software incompatibilities (currently) and sluggish emulation of legacy apps, of...
An analysis of publicly available web records shows SolarWinds hackers accessed the networks at Cox Communications and the local government in Pima County, AZ
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...
Sources: WH officials were ready to release a statement on Friday accusing Russia of being “the main actor” in the SolarWinds hack, but were told to stand down
WASHINGTON (AP) — Contradicting his secretary of state and other top officials, President Donald Trump …
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
For most of the past week and a half, this image has been stuck in my head: John Gruber / Daring Fireball : Facebook Wades Into Epic's Dispute With Apple Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac : Facebook criticize...
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 :
Apple puts manufacturing partner Wistron on probation, after an audit found violations of Apple's Supplier Code of Conduct at Wistron's Bengaluru plant
full text The Economic Times : Apple puts Wistron on probation, confirms lapses in worker payment that led to violence Jon Fingas / Engadget : Apple puts another manufacturer on probation after India ...
Leaked docs show how China stage-managed what appeared on its domestic internet to make coronavirus look less severe in the early days of the outbreak
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. Tweets: @paulmozur , @justinhendrix , @camillefrancois , @st...
JetBrains, maker of the language Kotlin, which never raised any VC funding is now valued at an estimated $7B, and says it will have $200M in revenue this year
- Google picked JetBrains for key coding language for Android — Founders shunned VCs, bootstrapped to billion-dollar fortunes Tweets: @tksaville , @kaushikgopal , @tsmith , and @yslnacas Tweets: Tr...
Creator platforms, which resemble economies in which wealth is concentrated at the top, should pursue new strategies to build the “middle class of creators”
The American Dream exists, but what is the reality? — 1 hr ago … In 1788, George Washington predicted that America would be … Tweets: @ljin18 and @ljin18 Tweets: Li Jin / @ljin18 : Here are 10 strat...
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 :
Twitter updates its election misinformation labels to say “election officials have certified Joe Biden as the winner of the U.S. Presidential election”
Trump's tweets disputing Joe Biden's election victory now include a label clarifying that “election officials have certified Joe Biden …
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
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
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 : Tweets: @gavinsbaker See also Mediagazer Tweets: Gavin Baker / @gavinsbaker : Interesting from the former chief economist @Spotify Music streaming volume has flattened out ove...
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