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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
FBI email servers were hacked to send spam warning of a “sophisticated chain attack”, with a likely goal to discredit security researcher Vinny Troia — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) email servers were hacked to distribute spam email impersonating FBI warnings …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
The person claiming responsibility for the FBI email server hack says they were able to send spam messages by abusing insecure code in the FBI's LEEP portal — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast …
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| Wolfie Zhao / The Block: |
Taproot, the first major upgrade to Bitcoin's code since the introduction of Segregated Witness in 2017, has been activated — Taproot, Bitcoin's long-anticipated code upgrade with a focus on enhancing the network's privacy and security, has been activated.| Taylor Locke / CNBC: |
An overview of Bitcoin's Taproot upgrade, which makes transactions more private, less expensive, and will let bitcoin users execute more complex smart contracts — Taproot, a highly anticipated upgrade to bitcoin, is expected to go into effect in the coming days at block 709,632 — some sources say it'll go live as soon as Saturday.| New York Times: |
Apple, Spotify, and other companies that distribute podcasts have done little to rein in COVID-19 misinformation, escaping the scrutiny social media giants face — False statements about vaccines have spread on the “Wild West” of media, even as some hosts die of virus complications.| CNBC: |
Agreements between Apple and some states to offer digital IDs in Wallet, show states covering costs of issuing the IDs and Apple approving marketing efforts — - Apple requires states to maintain the systems needed to issue and service credentials at taxpayer expense, according to contracts signed by four states.
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| Ted Alcorn / Bloomberg: |
How Togo, a country where few possess a driver's license or national ID card, built a digital platform to rapidly disburse relief payments to millions of people — In two weeks, Togo designed and launched an all-digital system for delivering monthly payments to millions of people—and made the U.S. program look like a “dinosaur.”
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
AMD reveals 50 security flaws in its EPYC processors and its Windows 10 graphics driver; Intel discloses 25 vulnerabilities in its products including CPUs — Think of an attack - DoS, arbitrary code execution, memory corruption - and one of these vulns allows it
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| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
Apple agrees to pay its CA store workers $29.9M, settling a 2013 lawsuit for time spent in required security bag checks; Apple dropped the policy in 2015 — Apple Inc. agreed to pay $29.9 million to employees at its stores who were forced to submit to security bag checks — off the clock … | Chris Prentice / Reuters: |
US states led by Texas file an amended Google lawsuit, providing more details about “Project Bernanke”, which allegedly gave Google's own ad-buying an advantage — A group of U.S. states led by Texas have filed an amended complaint against Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) … | Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
WSO2, which offers low-code tools to help businesses, hospitals, schools, and public sector organizations build apps, raises $90M from Goldman Sachs — Amid a tech-talent crunch, the Wall Street bank is eyeing a growing market for do-it-yourself app builders that put development into the hands of business-line employees| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How US cities are deploying drones, robots, and AI to more affordably inspect, diagnose, and repair the country's aging sewer infrastructure — Cash-strapped U.S. cities are turning to drones, artificial intelligence and other innovations to help inspect and fix the country's aging underground arteries of waste
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