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Celebrity photo theft a targeted attack on names, passwords, and security questions, and didn't result from breaches of Find my iPhone or iCloud — Update to Celebrity Photo Investigation — We wanted to provide an update to our investigation into the theft of photos of certain celebrities.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, a law enforcement tool popular on hacker forums, downloads full iCloud backups given stolen credentials — The Police Tool That Pervs Use to Steal Nude Pics From Apple's iCloud — As nude celebrity photos spilled onto the web over the weekend …
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| Nik Cubrilovic / New Web Order: |
A look inside the hacker networks dealing in stolen celebrity data — Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft — An interesting aspect of information security is how periodically it collides with other industries and subcultures. With more information than ever being stored and shared online …
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| Michael Rose / TUAW: |
Apple's two-factor authentication doesn't cover restoring a new device from an iCloud backup, a known issue affecting data security — Think iCloud's two-factor authentication protects your privacy? It doesn't — As the forensic analysis of the weekend's celebrity intimate photo leak continues …
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| Chris Soghoian / ACLU: |
Lessons From the Celebrity iCloud Photo Breach — Based on initial media reports, it seems that intimate, private photographs from several celebrities' online accounts have been accessed without their consent and widely shared on the Internet. For now, many details about the breach (or breaches) remain unclear.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
While Apple denies that iCloud was “breached”, it doesn't deny iCloud was involved in the celebrity photo theft — Apple denies iCloud breach in celebrity nude photo hack — Apple says that the mass theft of nude celebrity photos that were released over the weekend did not occur … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Banks: Credit Card Breach at Home Depot — Multiple banks say they are seeing evidence that Home Depot stores may be the source of a massive new batch of stolen credit and debit cards that went on sale this morning in the cybercrime underground. Home Depot says that it is working with banks …
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Google HTC 9-inch tablet may get official magnetic, foldable, keyboard case — Exclusive: Here's The Official Keyboard Case Google And HTC Are Planning For The Next Nexus Tablet [Updated] — Earlier last month, we posted an exclusive story about Google's explorations into a product called …
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| Avram Piltch / Laptop Mag: |
Lenovo Tab S8: Intel Quad-Core Android Tablet Is $199 — In the world of compact tablets, 8-inch is the new 7-inch. As consumers gravitate toward larger smartphones, they're looking at tablets with 8-inch screens as the ideal compromise: big enough to be different from their handsets …
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
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| David Kushner / New Yorker: |
How Anonymous incited online vigilantism from Tunisia to Ferguson — The Masked Avengers — How Anonymous incited online vigilantism from Tunisia to Ferguson. … “I need to talk about my inner life.” — BUY OR LICENSE » … “Zach is in the gifted-and-talented-and-you're- not class.”| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple sets developer rules for HealthKit, HomeKit, TestFlight, and Extensions ahead of iOS 8 launch — Today, Apple has updated its official App Store developers Review Guidelines to outline the requirements for iOS 8 applications that will make use of the new HealthKit, HomeKit, TestFlight, and Extensions services.
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| Ian Kar / Bank Innovation: |
Apple, Nordstrom in Talks to Partner on Payments — Department store Nordstrom is reportedly in talks to be one of Apple's early merchant partners when the company unveils its new payments platform soon, according to sources with knowledge of the discussions.| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google's Android Wear to support Bluetooth headsets, GPS, and third party watch faces — Google says Android Wear about to get even smarter (Q&A) — The search giant hasn't said much about its OS for wearable devices since a demo in June. CNET sat down with two of the project's head engineers to find out what's new.
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| Jessica E. Lessin / The Information: |
Greg Wyler, satellite executive and founder of 03b Networks, has abruptly left Google — Abrupt Exit for Google Satellite Exec — One of the leaders of Google's effort to build a constellation of Internet-beaming satellites, Greg Wyler, has left the company, according to two people familiar with the situation.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Office for iPad adds monthly in-app subscriptions; $6.99/month for Office 365 Personal, $9.99/month for Office 365 Home — Microsoft adds monthly in-app subscription option to Office for iPad — Summary: Microsoft Office for iPad users now have the option to subscribe to Office 365 monthly and from inside Word, Excel or PowerPoint.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Partners With UCSB To Build Quantum Processors For Artificial Intelligence — Google today announced that it is expanding its research around quantum computing and that it has hired UC Santa Barbara's (UCSB) John Martinis and his team - one of the most prolific research groups in this area … | Bloomberg: |
SoftBank's humanoid robot Pepper will go on sale in US within a year, coming to Sprint stores — SoftBank to Sell Robot in U.S. Stores Within 12 Months — Billionaire Masayoshi Son will start selling his humanoid robots named “Pepper” at Sprint Corp. (S) stores in the U.S. by next summer … | Andy / TorrentFreak: |
UK government warns of legislative action if search engines don't stop linking to pirate sites — UK Govt. Warns Google, Microsoft & Yahoo Over Piracy — Developments over the past 12 months have sent the clearest message yet that the UK government is not only prepared to morally support … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Concur shares soar amid reports of potential sale to SAP, Oracle — Shares of Concur are up nearly 16 percent in after-hours trading following a report from Bloomberg noting the company's interest in a potential sale. Bloomberg notes that the Bellevue-based travel expense company is working …
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