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AWS blames its Tuesday outage on network devices overloading, says it will revamp its status page after complaints about support inquiries during the outage — - A major Amazon Web Services outage on Tuesday started after network devices got overloaded, the company said on Friday.
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A vulnerability in the Apache log4j Java logging library allows for remote code execution, impacting Steam, iCloud, Minecraft, and other services — A few hours ago, a -day exploit in the popular Java logging library, log4j, was tweeted along with a POC posted on GitHub that results …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
The Apache Software Foundation releases a security fix for log4j zero-day, which was discovered during a bug bounty engagement against Minecraft servers — The Apache Software Foundation has released an emergency security update today to patch a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a Java library that provides logging capabilities.
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Instacart president Carolyn Everson says she will step down at the end of the year, less than four months after joining the company — - Another high-profile Instacart executive is leaving the company. — Carolyn Everson announced Friday she will step down as president at the end of the year.
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| Mishaal Rahman: |
How a bug in Microsoft Teams and Android 10 and above, triggered by the user not being logged in to the Teams app, may have caused 911 call fails — Written by Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) and edited by @linuxct, Kuba Wojciechowski (@Za_Raczke), and Al Sutton (@alsutton).
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Congressional hearings with tech CEOs and other execs in the last few years resulted in no new laws, amid partisan divides over issues like privacy and misinfo — Holding a hearing that humbles the most powerful business executives in the world is much easier than legislating.
Tweets: @ceciliakang, @davidclinchnews, and @jkosseff
| Angelica Mari / ZDNet: |
Brazil's Ministry of Health suffers a major ransomware attack, blocking access to millions of COVID-19 digital vaccination certificates and 50TB of data — Hackers claimed to have copied and deleted 50 TB worth of data from internal systems. — Websites under Brazil's Ministry of Health … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
TrueNorth, a logistics service for independent truckers, raises a $50M Series B co-led by the Altman brothers and Lachy Groom, bringing total funding to $61.8M — Jin Stedge studied aerospace engineering at MIT, but after she found herself at Scotty Labs, an SRI International spin-out focused …
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Tweets: @truenorthfleet, @elizabeth, and @ycombinator
| New York Times: |
Investigation finds that a site providing directions on how to die is linked to ~45 suicides, as Google deflects responsibility for steering users to the site — It has the trappings of popular social media, a young audience and explicit content on suicide that other sites don't allow.
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Financial Times. Tweets: @mega2e, @emilybaucum, @dddrewdaniel, @nytimes, @drewharwell, @ma_franks, @tweetinjules, @shelbygrossman, @thirdwaymattb, @tonyromm, and @elisewho
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Volvo Cars discloses a security breach that led to R&D data theft and could impact the company's operations; the Snatch ransomware gang claims responsibility — Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars has disclosed that unknown attackers have stolen research and development information after hacking some of its servers.
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Volvo Cars Global Media …, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, DataBreaches.net, Slashdot, Wall Street Journal, Jalopnik, ZDNet, Security Affairs, The Record, Reuters, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @cryptoron and @campuscodi
| Ben Brody / Protocol: |
Profile of the Coalition for App Fairness, a group created by Epic, Spotify, Match Group, and others, seeking to open Google and Apple app stores to competition — When Kirsten Daru took a job as general counsel at Tile, she hadn't thought she'd still be using her background in antitrust …
Tweets: @benbrodydc, @appfairness, @adamkovac, and @wexler
| Bloomberg: |
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