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Uber takes some internal systems offline to investigate a network breach; Yuga Labs' Sam Curry says it appears the hacker pretty much has “full access to Uber” — The company said on Thursday that it was looking into the scope of the apparent hack.
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| Washington Post: |
Uber's hacker, who claims to be 18 years old, says he hacked Uber for fun, using social engineering, might leak source code, and has access to its AWS account — The company said in a tweet it was “responding to a cybersecurity incident” — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber's computer systems …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Yuga Labs engineer: Uber's hacker accessed its HackerOne bug bounty program; source: the hacker downloaded all the vulnerability reports before losing access — Uber suffered a cyberattack Thursday afternoon with a hacker gaining access to vulnerability reports and sharing screenshots … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber says there is “no evidence” the hacker accessed sensitive user info, like trip histories, during the breach and that all its products are now “operational” — Uber says there is “no evidence” that any of its users' private information was compromised in a breach of its internal computer systems.| Tim Hakki / Decrypt: |
The White House releases a “comprehensive framework” for US crypto regulation, outlining various federal agencies' recommendations after six months of study — The White House's recommendations are built on six months of wide-ranging research across the digital asset sector.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Intel says the company plans to replace its Pentium and Celeron brands, debuted in 1993 and 1998, with Intel Processor, starting with notebooks in 2023 — While there are more and more premium Chrome OS devices, the category very much excels at the cheaper end of the market.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Vectra: Microsoft Teams stores authentication tokens in unencrypted plaintext; Microsoft has no plans for a fix, since an exploit would require network access — Microsoft downplayed the flaw saying it ‘does not meet our bar for immediate servicing.’ — Microsoft Teams stores authentication tokens …
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Former TikTok and ByteDance staff say TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's power is limited; ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming and other executives make most of the decisions — Shou Zi Chew, TikTok's chief executive, is balancing how to be an autonomous leader while juggling the demands of the app's Chinese parent company.
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| Joe Schneider / Bloomberg: |
A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court — A federal appeals court upheld the validity of a Texas social-media law that companies like Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc …
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| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Leaked audio: YouTube will lower the barriers to entry for its partner program and bring ads to Shorts, paying creators 45% of ad money vs. 55% for YouTube ads — The video platform will let more creators earn payments and place ads in Shorts, its TikTok competitor, according to audio from an internal meeting.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
LastPass says a hacker had access to its systems for four days in August 2022 but there is no evidence they accessed customer data or encrypted password vaults — LastPass says the attacker behind the August security breach had internal access to the company's systems for four days until they were detected and evicted.| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Sources: due to an accounting bug, Binance erroneously disbursed ~4.8M of Helium's HNT tokens, worth ~$19M, to some of its users, many of whom quickly sold them — The Helium network has two tokens, HNT and MOBILE. Binance counted them as one, HNT, resulting in a windfall for customers who deposited the MOBILE.
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The European Central Bank selects Amazon, the European Payments Initiative, CaixaBank, Worldline, and Nexi to prototype digital euro user interfaces by Q1 2023 — The European Central Bank plans to test how well the technology underlying a digital euro integrates with user interfaces developed by companies.
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PitchBook: the Adobe deal makes Figma the largest VC-backed exit in 20+ years; source: Figma's biggest outside shareholder is Index Ventures with a 12%+ stake — Danny Rimer first invested in Figma in 2012, shortly after the company was established and began developing software tools for designers.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Parler restructures as Parlement Technologies after raising a $16M Series B and acquires Dynascale to offer “uncancelable” cloud services for online businesses — On Friday, Parler announced that it was entering the internet infrastructure industry in order to provide new …
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Speaking hours after Ethereum's Merge update, SEC Chair Gary Gensler says cryptocurrencies that let holders stake coins may be subject to US securities laws — SEC chairman says system used by ether following software update could trigger securities laws — WASHINGTON—Ethereum's big software update …
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