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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Ransomware attack spreads to orgs in Britain, US, and Europe, including ad firm WPP, Chernobyl power plant, shipping giant Maersk, US hospital, Merck, more — A major ransomware attack has brought businesses to a close throughout Europe, in an infection reminiscent of last month's WannaCry attack.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Experts from Eset and Recorded Future say today's ransomware scans systems for passwords to send to server, uses NSA “EternalBlue” exploit, is “Petya” variant — Like earlier ransomware worm, new attacks use potent exploit stolen from the NSA.
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Tweets: @swiftonsecurity, @nicoleperlroth, @nicoleperlroth, @hacks4pancakes, @gossithedog, @ericgeller, and @e_kaspersky
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
German email host closes account of hacker behind today's ransomware outbreak, but because victims can't reach hacker, they can't decrypt files even if they pay — On Tuesday, a new, worldwide ransomware outbreak took off, infecting targets in Ukraine, France, Spain, and elsewhere.
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| Jon Henley / The Guardian: |
Ransomware attack affecting Windows machines hits Russian oil giant Rosneft, many Ukrainian banks, Ukrainian firms and utilities including state power service — Ukraine's government, banks and electricity grid hit hardest by cyber-attack, but companies from Saint-Gobain in France to Rosneft in Russia also affected
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Tweets: @maersk, @craiu, @nicoleperlroth, @christopherjm, @marksweney, and @rbrack10
| EU Press Room: |
European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing search engine dominance by promoting own shopping service, gives 90 days to end conduct or face penalties — The European Commission has fined Google €2.42 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules.
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Tweets: @tonyromm, @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan, and @mikeisaac
| Kent Walker / Google: |
Google says it “respectfully disagrees” with the EU Commission's decision and will review it in detail as it considers an appeal — When you shop online, you want to find the products you're looking for quickly and easily. And advertisers want to promote those same products.| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
As Facebook reaches the 2B MAUs milestone, a look at its growth strategy over the years with interview of VPs of growth, growth marketing, social good, others — Facebook's growth team has a methodical approach to understanding what new users want and a surprisingly broad mandate.
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| Marc Schneider / Billboard: |
Pandora winds down operations in Australia and New Zealand, the only territories where it operates outside of the US — Pandora is pulling the plug on Australia and New Zealand, the only international territories where it operates, in an effort to focus solely on the United States.| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
| Emily Chang / Bloomberg: |
Source: Binary Capital is shutting down its most recent fund, which had raised about $175M, in wake of Justin Caldbeck situation — Binary Capital LLC, the venture firm whose co-founder Justin Caldbeck departed last week after admitting to misconduct with female entrepreneurs …
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: refurbished Galaxy Note 7 “Fandom Edition” initially launching in South Korea on July 7 — A refurbished version of the premium smartphone, whose global recall last year garnered unwanted attention for Samsung after some caught fire, is coming to retailers' shelves …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
You can now request an Uber ride for people without a smartphone or Uber account, making it easier to help seniors — Uber is adding a new feature that lets you specify someone else in your phone's contact book as the rider for the trip. It was always possible to hail a ride …
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Tweets: @williamwilhelm and @p_lyden
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft patches the third critical remote exploit in Windows Defender found by Project Zero in seven weeks, after a “quick stab” at fuzzing by Tavis Ormandy — Is there a fuzzer in the house? — Microsoft recently patched a critical vulnerability in its ubiquitous built-in antivirus engine.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie report: the global app economy will grow to $6.3T by 2021, up from $1.3T in 2016; user base to nearly double from 3.4B to 6.3B — The global app economy will be worth $6.3 trillion by 2021, up from $1.3 trillion last year, according to a new report this morning from app analytics firm App Annie.Sponsor Posts
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