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At least two dozen federal lawsuits have been filed against Equifax in the United States — (Reuters) - More than two dozen lawsuits have been filed in the United States against Equifax Inc (EFX.N) after the credit reporting company said thieves may have stolen personal information …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Equifax's credit report monitoring site, which was set up in the wake of security breach, is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks — The site has at least one vulnerability that allows a hacker to trick users into turning over sensitive data. — Equifax's site used to set … | Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company: |
| New York Times: |
SoFi CEO and co-founder Mike Cagney to step down following sexual harassment suit; sources say he skirted risk and compliance controls while expanding business — Social Finance, an online lender that has been one of the more prominent financial technology start-ups, said on Monday …
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Russia-linked accounts used promoted Facebook Events to organize anti-immigrant protests in US in 2016; company confirms it shut down several promoted events — Russian operatives hiding behind false identities used Facebook's event management tool to remotely organize and promote political protests …
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| Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
FireEye report says hackers with ties to North Korea have been targeting South Korean crypto-currency exchanges to obtain funds for the Pyongyang regime — Over the past several months, threat actors believed to have ties with North Korea have been targeting crypto-currency exchanges … | Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: Apple working with partners including Stanford and telemedicine firm American Well to test whether Watch can be used to detect common heart conditions — - The company is working on the tests with partners including Stanford and telemedicine company American Well, according to two people familiar.
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Instagram enables sharing other people's Stories through direct messages; feature rolling out globally starting today on both iOS and Android — Though Instagram's Stories is already more popular than Snapchat, the photo-sharing service won't stop introducing more ways to share them.
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Google details plan to distrust Symantec-issued certificates starting with Chrome 66 in 2018 — This post is a broader announcement of plans already finalized on the blink-dev mailing list. — At the end of July, the Chrome team and the PKI community converged upon a plan to reduce …
| Brad Frost: |
The notifications Facebook uses to keep people coming back have gotten overt and aggressive — Several months ago, I turned off notifications from Facebook on my phone. Last week, I went ahead and removed the Facebook app from my phone. — Now, I genuinely enjoy Facebook.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it's testing Instant Videos that can be downloaded and cached on Wi-Fi, watched later — Facebook doesn't want you to burn through your mobile data plan just to keep watching its videos. That's why it's testing a new feature called Instant Videos that downloads … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook has pulled Instant Articles off Messenger, says it's now focusing its resources on Instant Articles on its core app — While Facebook prepares to offer readers a way to subscribe and pay for news directly from inside its app, the social network continues to tinker with how it presents publishers' content elsewhere.
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| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung says Galaxy Note8 preorders reached 650K from about 40 countries over five days, beating its predecessor Note7 by ~2.5x — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) on Tuesday said pre-orders for its Galaxy Note 8 premium smartphone have hit the highest-ever for the Note series … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
tvOS 11 firmware leak suggests “Apple TV 4K” name, potential Siri Remote update with haptic feedback, references to “HDR Modes” in settings — Following 9to5Mac's iPhone X feature discoveries from the iOS 11 GM leak we received over the weekend …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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