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Clinton campaign: DNC's data analytics program we used was breached; no evidence hackers accessed internal systems — Hillary for America Spokesman Nick Merrill released the following statement on news reports regarding cyber hacks targeted at the campaign: “An analytics data program maintained by the DNC …
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Sources: Clinton campaign computer network hacked in addition to Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — The computer network used by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack …
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| Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security: |
Recent hacks indicate US election systems and voting machines could be targeted too; government must take urgent steps to secure them, and consider retaliation — Russia was behind the hacks into the Democratic National Committee's computer network that led to the release of thousands …
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| Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
Google has issued patches for 115 Android Stagefright-related flaws since vulnerability was made public a year ago — On July 27, 2015, news broke about Stagefright, a vulnerability in Android. A year later, it's clear that Stagefright has had a major impact on the mobile security world …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Chinese consortium led by Giant to buy Playtika, a virtual goods social casino game company, for $4.4B — Niantic Labs' John Hanke will be delivering a fireside chat for AR/VR day (augmented reality/virtual reality) at GamesBeat 2016. Get a ticket here! — A consortium of Chinese companies led … | Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
Sarah and Peiter “Mudge” Zatko create Cyber Independent Testing Lab to test and score the security of software — At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in 2014, industry luminary Dan Geer, fed up with the prevalence of vulnerabilities in digital code, made a modest proposal … | David Gelles / New York Times: |
Verizon's goal with Yahoo and AOL: compete with Google and Facebook in digital advertising by sharing data on its wireless customers with advertisers — Verizon Communications' $4.83 billion acquisition of Yahoo has the technology cognoscenti scratching their heads.| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Navy officials say the US uses submarines to carry out cyberattacks — When Donald Trump effectively called for Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton's emails Wednesday, the GOP nominee's remarks touched off a (predictable) media firestorm. Here was a presidential candidate …
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| Paul Ziobro / Wall Street Journal: |
Walgreens to shutter Drugstore.com and Beauty.com, which were a part of a $429M acquisition in 2011, to focus on its own website — Retailer also to shutter Beauty.com as part of a broader plan to cut costs — Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. on Thursday said it is shutting down two websites … | Mustafa Al-Bassam / Motherboard: |
British Spies Used a URL Shortener to Honeypot Arab Spring Dissidents — A shadowy unit of the British intelligence agency GCHQ tried to influence online activists during the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests and the 2011 democratic uprisings largely known as the Arab Spring … | Leslie Hook / Financial Times: |
Source: Uber to invest $500M into its own global mapping project — Uber is preparing to pour $500m into an ambitious global mapping project as it seeks to wean itself off dependence on Google Maps and pave the way for driverless cars. — The San Francisco-based transportation company … | Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Instagram will soon let users filter comments on their posts, turn off comments on individual posts, or turn off comments on their posts entirely — Instagram is taking an unusual step to deal with the complicated ethics of online commenting. It's giving users the ability to make the choice …
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