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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.
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| Microsoft Security: |
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 …
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| New York Times: |
How a years long effort to create Cyberpunk 2077, marred by infighting, incompetence, and poor planning, brought the Polish studio CD Projekt RED to its knees — Nearly a decade of hype led to a troubled release riddled with glitches, a livid fan base, refunds for potentially millions of players and a possible class-action lawsuit.
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| Jacob Knutson / Axios: |
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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| Associated Press: |
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 …
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| Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac: |
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.
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| Katie Bo Williams / Defense One: |
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.
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| ProPublica: |
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.| Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg: |
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
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| Li Jin / Li's Newsletter: |
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 …
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| Patricia Hurtado / Bloomberg: |
DOJ charges a China-based executive at Zoom with disrupting video meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre; Zoom says it terminated the employee — - Worker accused of disrupting Tiananmen Square commemorations — Zoom says it fired Xinjiang Jin after internal investigation
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| Janet W. Lee / Variety: |
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