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| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
CISA Director Jen Easterly says the Log4j flaw likely affects hundreds of millions of devices and may be the most serious bug she has seen in her career — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly told industry leaders in a phone briefing Monday that a vulnerability …
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Wired, Sophos News, Ars Technica, CNN, Nextgov, AppleInsider, ProferoSec, and ZDNet
Tweets: @marcioalm, @tomanthonyseo, @matthew_d_green, @timstarks, @tonyajoriley, @chriseng, @gossithedog, and @matthew_d_green
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Kronos, one of the largest HR and workflow management companies, says a ransomware attack knocked its systems offline, possibly for the next several weeks — Kronos outage will last several weeks. Firm advises customers to use other services. — As the world is beset by Log4Shell …
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The Record, PYMNTS.com, Washington Post, The Register, SiliconANGLE, USA Today, Threatpost, Naked Security, and Dark Reading
Tweets: @jasonlk, @ldignan, and @campuscodi
| Bloomberg: |
Documents and interviews reveal Apache developers' efforts to patch the Log4j vulnerability, after an Alibaba employee alerted them of the flaw on November 24 — At 2:51 p.m. on Nov. 24, members of an open-source software project received an alarming email.
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CyberScoop, IBM PSIRT, The Verge, WeLiveSecurity, and Protocol
Tweets: @rover829, @williamturton, and @jamietarabay
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
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MICROIDEATION, Wired, Snyk, Dark Reading, Tech Monitor, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @eastdakota, @bushidotoken, and @malwarejake
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
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Check Point Software, Ars Technica, Gist, VentureBeat, Forrester, BGR, The Cloudflare Blog, ZDNet, Securelist, Threatpost, Dark Reading, The Register, Security Boulevard, Tom's Guide, Financial Times, TechRepublic, Medigate, Graham Cluley, SiliconANGLE, BBC, Security Affairs, AppleInsider, TNW, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @soychicka, @gossithedog, @seldo, @campuscodi, @girlgerms, @brunoborges, and @p_malynin
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Biden signs an executive order directing 17 US agencies to modernize services and bring more of them online, including passport photo uploads and taxes — The White House is hoping to spur a major technological overhaul of government services with a new executive order President Biden will sign Monday.
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Tweets: @ambrice46, @powerusaid, @mpellittieri, @ldrogen, @pahlkadot, @codeforamerica, and @issielapowsky
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Nike acquires RTFKT, an NFT studio founded in 2020, for an undisclosed sum; RTFKT raised an $8M seed in May led by a16z at a $33.3M valuation — Nike is taking a plunge deeper into the world of crypto collectibles, announcing that they're acquiring the NFT studio RTFKT (pronounced “artifact").
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NIKE NEWS, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, The Market Herald Fancy, Complex, The Economic Times, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Crypto Briefing, Benzinga, HYPEBEAST, Forbes, VRScout, and Bitcoinist.com
Tweets: @zaptio, @rtfktstudios, @cdixon, and @lucasmtny
| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Apple debuts Tracker Detect, an Android app that scans for AirTags and other Find My items that may be traveling with users without their knowledge — Apple's following through on a promise to help Android users identify nearby AirTags and Find My trackers that aren't with their owners.
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MacRumors, Engadget, The Verge, Slashdot, The Economic Times, ZDNet, Mashable, Gizmodo, iThinkDifferent, MobileSyrup, XDA Developers, Softpedia News, Android Central, SlashGear, MSPoweruser, Pocket-lint, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, Macworld, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and Pixel Envy
Tweets: @hackyscientress, @sdw, @tobie, @evacide, @bdsams, @evacide, @imaguid, @evacide, @cnet, @sdw, @benjitaylor, @iansherr, @martinsfp, @evacide, @mattblaze, @mattblaze, @evacide, @mattblaze, @made_in_cosmos, @mattblaze, @stroughtonsmith, @evacide, @evacide, @mattblaze, @mattblaze, @nonchip, and @an_aaron
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches Creative Cloud Express, a mobile and web app for creating logos, videos, and social media posts, for free or $9.99/month with advanced templates — Adobe today launched Creative Cloud Express, a mobile and web app that brings some of the best features of the company's sprawling …
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Adobe Press Releases, YouTube, Adobe Blog, 9to5Mac, Fast Company, ZDNet, Mashable, Ubergizmo, PCWorld, TechSpot, PhoneArena, Digital Photography Review, The Verge, appadvice.com, Bloomberg, MSPoweruser, Thurrott, and MacRumors
Tweets: @creativecloudx, @emerywells, @veronica, @ericsnowden, and @adobe
| Daniel Rubino / Windows Central: |
Microsoft and iFixit partner to let approved independent repairers buy official Microsoft service tools for Surface devices from iFixit.com — Authorized and independent technicians can new repair select Surface devices thanks to iFixit and Microsoft — What you need to know
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iFixit News, TNW, OnMSFT.com, XDA Developers, and MSPoweruser
| The Information: |
Sources: Amazon's Instacart rival, internally called Fresh Marketplace, will expand to the US and Europe in 2022 following its recent UK debut — In recent years, Amazon has attracted wide attention with its effort to become a force in the grocery industry, from its $13.7 billion acquisition …
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Tweets: @amir, @parismartineau, @parismartineau, and @parismartineau
| Daniel Van Boom / CNET: |
A trader blames a “fat-finger error” for selling a Bored Ape NFT for 0.75 ETH (~$3,000) instead of 75 ETH (~$300K); the NFT was promptly relisted for 60 ETH — “Fat finger” errors occasionally happen in traditional finance, but they're usually stopped or reversed. Not so with NFTs and cryptocurrency.
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BBC, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, CryptoSlate, Slashdot, CryptoPotato, Input, The Verge, news.com.au, TheStreet, and TechSpot
Tweets: @serrels, @technollama, @helenkennedy, @rhysmorgan, @babyboymonaghan, and @ahcastor
| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 15.2 with App Privacy Report in Settings, Messages safety warnings for kids, Hide My Email, and more; watchOS 8.3 and tvOS 15.2 also released — Apple is releasing today iOS 15.2, iPadOS 15.2, watchOS 8.3, tvOS 15.2, and HomePod Software version 15.2 to all users.
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Tweets: @markgurman, @byteforbyte, @wongmjane, @benjedwards, @rsgnl, @brandonee916, @vcsjones, @ianrobinson, @kieranmch, @kingthor, @rsgnl, @parkerortolani, and @kingthor
| Reuters: |
Meta acquires the worldwide trademark assets of US regional bank Meta Financial Group for $60M in cash through its affiliate Beige Key — Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O), the owner of social media network Facebook, is behind a $60 million deal to acquire the trademark assets of U.S. regional bank … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Crypto gaming company VulcanForge says hackers stole ~$135M from users by accessing 96 wallet private keys, as three high-profile hacks net ~$404M this month — VulcanForge becomes the third cryptocurrency company to be hit by hackers this month. In total, hackers have stolen more than $400 million.
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The Block. Tweets: @mxgxw_alpha, @gregotto, @carnage4life, @pinboard, @alexstamos, and @ben_mckenzie
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple management training chief Joel Podolny, who worked with Steve Jobs to create Apple University, left earlier this year to join a startup — - Podolny was hired by Steve Jobs to teach new managers in 2009 — Former executive was previously dean of Yale management school
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, and iMore
Tweets: @markgurman, @rom, @battlecorgig, and @newsynick
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
In an interview, Meta's Andrew Bosworth says political and COVID-19 misinformation are societal problems rather than issues that social networks magnified — Longtime Facebook veteran Andrew Bosworth insists that political and COVID-19 misinformation are societal problems rather than issues that have been magnified by social networks.
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Insider, YouTube, New York Post, Input, CNN, KnowTechie, and Reclaim The Net
Tweets: @axios, @hypervisible, @hitrecordjoe, @avibarzeev, @reneritchie, @epro, @codepope, @parmy, @hypervisible, @fboversight, @patrick_hruby, @antoniocasilli, @can, @jameskosur, @noupside, @ziadramley, @tonyromm, @yaeleisenstat, @sascha_p, @caulfieldtim, @ahmedbaba_, @juliacarriew, @martinsfp, @yoda, @yoda, @thelaraxsf, @yoda, and @yoda
| Mohak Shroff / Official LinkedIn Blog: |
LinkedIn launches InCareer, a mobile and web app to help professionals in China find jobs, two months after Microsoft shut down the Chinese version of LinkedIn — Exactly two months ago, we announced that we were moving into a new chapter in China, sunsetting the local version of LinkedIn …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Ukrainian law enforcement arrests 51 suspects for allegedly selling stolen personal data of over 300M people in Europe and the US — Ukrainian law enforcement arrested 51 suspects believed to have been selling stolen personal data on hacking forums belonging to hundreds of millions worldwide, including Ukraine, the US, and Europe.
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