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| Bloomberg: |
Five former Kaseya employees say they have warned the company about its lax security practices, and were laid off or quit as Kaseya failed to address the issues — - Ransomware attack hit as many as 1,500 businesses this month — Workers say Kaseya ignored warnings about key vulnerabilities
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| The Economic Times: |
Twitter names a resident grievance officer for India and publishes a compliance report, meeting two key requirements under India's new IT rules — Amid tensions with the government, Twitter has appointed a Resident Grievance Officer, days after it designated a chief compliance officer …
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Twitter Help, Twitter Transparency Center - India, and Twitter Transparency Center - India. More:
TechCrunch, Reuters, Entrackr, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Firstpost Tech, and TechCircle
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| James Pearson / Reuters: |
Investigation sheds light on Force 47, the Vietnamese army's online information warfare unit behind pro-state Facebook Groups that aim to correct “wrong views” — In Vietnam, where the state is fighting a fierce online battle against political dissent, social media “influencers” …
Tweets: @samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, @tostevinm, and @timothyjgraham
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Jack Cable of Krebs Stamos Group launches Ransomwhere, a crowdsourced ransomware payment tracker; the site is already tracking $32M+ in ransom payments for 2021 — Ransomware attacks, fueled by COVID-19 pandemic turbulence, have become a major money earner for cybercriminals, with the number of attacks rising in 2020.
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Ransomwhere and Ransomwhere. More:
Forbes, Gizmodo, The Record, iTnews, CyberScoop, and BleepingComputer
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: in H1 2021, private funding for cybersecurity companies reached $9B, up more than 2x from H1 2020 and eclipsing record total of $7.8B for all of 2020 — Perhaps the only thing more abundant than headlines about cyberattacks this year has been reports of record funding rounds …
Tweets: @crunchbasenews
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Inside Simulation City, Waymo's latest virtual world in which it trains, tests, and validates its “Waymo driver” software in preparation for the open road — A light gray cube with a thin blue top glides down a darkened highway, beset on all sides by dozens of green cubes.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
NYC's new biometrics privacy law takes effect, barring businesses from selling customer data and requiring posted notices at their doors about data collection — A new biometrics privacy ordinance has taken effect across New York City, putting new limits on what businesses can do with the biometric data …
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International Association …, Crain's New York Business, Lexology, and Input. Tweets: @techcrunch
| Financial Times: |
Sources: after the Didi crackdown, China-based fitness app Keep, podcasting platform Ximalaya, medical data analytics startup LinkDoc pause their US IPO plans — SoftBank and Tencent-backed Keep's move comes as China cracks down on ride-hailing group — China's most popular fitness app pulled … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Report: mobile wallets became the most widely used payment method in 2019, 2.8B wallets were in use by the end of 2020; SE Asia is the fastest growing region — - Mobile wallets are now the most widely used payment method — Chinese wallets not likely to dominate emerging Asia: study
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Boku. More:
IBS Intelligence Market News, iTWire, TechRadar, Finextra, and Tech in Asia
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| Angelica LaVito / Bloomberg: |
How digital pharmacies like Alto, Capsule, and Medly, which together have raised $650M+ since Jan. 2020, are trying to disrupt incumbents like CVS and Walgreens — Filling a prescription can be time-consuming and frustrating. There's the trip to the pharmacy, then the wait in line.
Tweets: @chirag_kulkarni and @larryvc
| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Pinterest courts creators via its stories-like permanent Idea Pins, sophisticated analytics and monetization tools, and promoting kinder, friendlier engagement — Most of Pinterest's best-known creators didn't start using Pinterest as creators. In fact, most of them started using the platform … | Isabella Simonetti / Bloomberg: |
Some Black TikTok creators describe unfair treatment by the platform and wider influencer economy, leading some to strike from creating new dances — After their strike, there's more to fix on TikTok — Mya Nicole Johnson, a 15-year-old Black influencer with 675,000 TikTok followers … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Phones with the “Anom” messaging app used in FBI and AFP's global sting are being sold on the secondary market, revealing the ArcaneOS operating system and more — ‘Anom’ phones used in an FBI honeypot are mysteriously showing up on the secondary market. We bought one. — Joseph Cox
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Engadget, Six Colors, Wired, and Ars Technica
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