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Sources: hackers stole NSA data on US offensive and defensive cyber capabilities from a contractor's laptop in 2015, likely via Kaspersky software — The breach, considered the most serious in years, could enable Russia to evade NSA surveillance and more easily infiltrate U.S. networks
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Analysis: what we know and do not know about Kaspersky Lab's alleged involvement in NSA contractor's laptop hack — The Wall Street Journal just published an incendiary article that says hackers working for the Russian government stole confidential material from an NSA contractor's home computer.
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Sources: White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's personal cellphone was compromised, potentially as long ago as December — White House tech support discovered the suspected breach after Kelly turned his phone in to tech support staff this summer. — White House officials believe that chief …
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
Researchers: Apple granted Uber now-removed “entitlement” that let app record iPhone screen, even in background; Uber says it was to improve Watch performance — To improve functionality between Uber's app and the Apple Watch, Apple allowed Uber to use a powerful tool that could record …
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Sources: early drafts of Facebook's April 27 report on election manipulation included references to Russia that were cut at the urging of legal and policy teams — The drafting of the report sparked internal debate over how much information to disclose about Russian influence campaigns on the social network| Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider: |
Analysis of six Facebook pages linked to Russian accounts, including Blacktivists and Secured Borders, shows ~19M interactions with posts — A Columbia University social media analyst has published his findings about the reach and engagement achieved by Russia-linked Facebook pages during the 2016 election.
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Apple reveals new emoji coming to iPhone and iPad in a future iOS 11.1 update, will be available in the beta release next week — Apple has shown off more emoji characters coming to iOS in the future 11.1 update. The characters are part of Unicode 10, which added 56 new emoji … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple updates High Sierra with fix for APFS Disk Utility flaw that revealed password instead of hint and Keychain vulnerability that let apps dump passwords — Apple today released a supplemental update to macOS High Sierra 10.13, the first update to the macOS High Sierra operating system …
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Tweets: @profwoodward and @flyosity
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook quietly launches betas of Workplace Chat apps with screen share for Mac and Windows — TechCrunch has discovered that Facebook has stealthily launched official desktop PC and Mac chat apps with screen sharing — two features users have been begging for.
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| Rob Malda: |
On Slashdot's 20th anniversary, cofounder Rob Malda reflects on the site's early days — I registered the domain name ‘Slashdot.org’ 20 years ago today. I really had no idea. — Jeff chipped in a few bucks for the fees. Kathleen told me the name was stupid. I thought “That's kinda the point!”.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Fiber will launch in San Antonio and Louisville without the traditional TV add-on; company says change does not apply to existing markets — Late last year, Google Fiber halted future deployment and in July lost its latest CEO after only five months.| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
CEO of bitcoin mining firms GAW Miners and ZenMiner, Josh Garza, ordered to pay $9.8M to SEC after pleading guilty to fraud in July — Homero Josh Garza's now-defunct companies must also pay $10 million. — Homero Josh Garza, who founded two cryptocurrency startups, GAW Miners and ZenMiner … Sponsor Posts
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