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| Guy Rosen / Facebook: |
Facebook says it discovered a security issue, now patched, on September 25 affecting ~50M users that let hackers steal access tokens and take over user accounts — On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts.
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| Wired: |
How the security breach that made 50M Facebook accounts vulnerable to takeover worked and what information may have been accessed — FACEBOOK'S PRIVACY PROBLEMS severely escalated Friday when the social network disclosed that an unprecedented security issue, discovered September 25, impacted almost 50 million user accounts.
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| Motherboard: |
Facebook: vulnerability was the result of 3 distinct bugs and was introduced in July 2017, attackers could use the account as if they were the account holder — Facebook “discovered a security issue” that the company said allowed attackers to “take over people's accounts.”
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Facebook says hackers could have also gained access to users' accounts on other apps and websites, including Instagram and Oculus accounts, via Facebook Login — Hours after Facebook announced on Friday a huge data breach that affected at least 50 million users, the news got worse.
Tweets: @willoremus, @mattblaze, and @mmasnick
| Robert Ferris / CNBC: |
Sources: Musk pulled out of a no-guilt SEC settlement at the last minute that barred him from being Tesla chairman for two years, required two new directors — - Elon Musk backed out of a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle allegations of fraud over his comments …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy says Google CEO Sundar Pichai has agreed to testify before the US House Judiciary Committee in November — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has agreed to testify before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee in November, a senior Republican said Friday.| Aisha Hassan / Quartz: |
Spotify confirms test where it sent emails to some of its Premium for Family users asking them to prove their home address via GPS or lose access to the plan — Spotify recently sent an email to some of its “Premium for Family” account users in the US that asked them to confirm their home address through GPS data.
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| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Slack is actively preparing for an IPO in the first half of 2019, with an expected valuation of more than $7B — Messaging company, recently valued at roughly $7 billion, aims to debut in the first half — Slack Technologies Inc. is actively preparing for an initial public offering … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it has stopped developing new features for mobile versions of Office apps for Windows and is focusing on win32, web, iOS, and Android — Microsoft's universal app experiment for Office is all but over — Microsoft first started work on its touch-friendly Office apps for Windows 8.1 more than five years ago.
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Windows Central, Ars Technica, and On MSFT
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Oracle's president of product development Thomas Kurian has resigned, weeks after announcing leave and reports of conflict with Ellison over cloud strategy — Weeks after Oracle said its top cloud executive was taking a temporary leave of absence from the company, it confirmed Friday afternoon … | Reuters: |
Sources: court rejected DOJ's demand to hold Facebook in contempt for refusal to carry out a wiretap order to monitor Messenger calls of MS-13 gang members — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. investigators failed in a recent courtroom effort to force Facebook to wiretap voice calls …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google starts rolling out Wear OS 2.1 with a Google Assistant feed, one-swipe access to Fit, and revamped notifications — A better foundation for future watches — Today, Google will begin rolling out a software update for Wear OS smartwatches. I've been using this new version for about a week …
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