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December 20, 2014, 11:10 AM

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BBC:

North Korea denies Sony hack, proposes joint inquiry with US, warns of “grave consequences” if Washington refuses — North Korea seeks join probe with US on Sony hack — North Korea has offered to hold a joint inquiry with the United States into a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures …

More: Guardian, USA Today, CBS News, Reuters, ABC, Engadget, No Film School, Deadline, Gizmodo UK, Forbes, Wired, The Huffington Post, Refinery29, TechPresident, CNN and TMZ.com. See also Mediagazer

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Sources confirm Sony hackers hail mainly from North Korea, and include Japan-based group of ethnic North Koreans — FBI: North Korea to Blame for Sony Hack — The FBI today said it has determined that the North Korean government is responsible for the devastating recent hack attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:

Hackers Used Sophisticated SMB Worm Tool to Attack Sony — Sony Hackers Used Server Message Block (SMB) Worm Tool — Just hours after the FBI and President Obama called out North Korea as being responsible for the destructive cyber attack against Sony Pictures, US-CERT issued an alert decribing …

More: US-CERT Alerts and Ars Technica. Thanks:@securityweek

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Obama calls Sony canceling The Interview a “mistake”, says North Korea acted alone; White House contemplating “proportional response” — President Obama Says Sony Made “Mistake” in Canceling “The Interview” Film — President Obama, speaking at his year-end presser …

More: Associated Press, Reuters, ABC News, The Verge, Bloomberg, ZDNet, Vox, Engadget, Business Insider, TechCrunch and CBS News

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Chrome Security Team Considers Marking All HTTP Pages As ‘Non-Secure’ — Back in August, we noted that Google had started adjusting its search algorithm to give a slight boost to sites that are encrypted. That is, all else equal, sites that use HTTPS will get a slight ranking boost.

More: The Chromium Projects, BBC, Freedom to Tinker, Threatpost, Datamation.com, The Register, SD Times, eWeek, ECPM BLOG, SecurityWeek, ITProPortal, Accidental Tech Podcast, Inquirer, ZDNet and Search Engine Roundtable. Tweets: @stshank

Jan Dawson / Beyond Devices:

Cross platform development by Apple, Google, and Microsoft analyzed and visualized — Visualizing cross-platform development — Much has been made recently of Microsoft's shift from a Windows-centric worldview to a cross-platform approach to the development of applications and services.

Tweets: @chrisnahr, @animeshsriv, @benjaminellis and @stevesi

Patricia Hurtado / Bloomberg:

Former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem gets two years in prison for Silk Road money laundering — Bitcoin Promoter Gets 2 Years for Silk Road Money Laundering — Charlie Shrem, the former Bitcoin Foundation Inc. executive who pleaded guilty to charges tied to the illicit online bazaar …

More: Reuters, NY Daily News, Newsday, Inside Bitcoins, USA Today, CoinDesk and CryptoCoinsNews

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Cisco elevates patent battle against Arista with ITC complaint — Summary:Cisco's lawsuit concerns 12 features covered by 14 patents - all of which are embedded within current products. — The brewing legal war between Cisco and Arista gained momentum amid a battle of the blog posts on Friday.

More: Cisco Blog, Bloomberg, Business Insider, eWeek and Arista Networks

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple Pay claimed 1% of November's digital payment dollars, new report says — A new report from ITG has revealed that Apple Pay was responsible for 1% of the total digital payment dollars spent in November. The study also found that 60% of new Apple Pay customers used the service multiple times throughout …

More: Investor Relations, MacRumors, MacNN, The Mac Observer, SlashGear, AppleInsider and iMore

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

India's e-commerce giant Flipkart raises $700M, bringing its total investor money in 2014 to over $2B — India's E-Commerce Giant Flipkart Replenishes Its War Chest With New $700M Round — Flipkart raised $1 billion at the end of July, and less than six months later the Indian e-commerce giant …

More: Times of India, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, NDTV Gadgets and NDTV Profit

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Social TV service TVtag, previously known as GetGlue, to shut down end of 2014 — GetGlue successor TVtag is shutting down — Janko Roettgers — Social TV service TVtag, which was previously known as GetGlue, is shutting down at the end of the year. TVtag announced the shut …

More: iMore, App Advice, TechWhack, GeekWire and The Next Web. Tweets: @supersanusi

Staples Investor Relations:

Staples provides details on September breach: 115 stores' POS systems, 1.16M payment cards compromised — Staples Provides Update on Data Security Incident — Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) today gave an update on the investigation into its previously announced data security incident involving …

More: Krebs on Security, CNET, Fortune, Gizmodo, Neowin, Engadget, The Verge, USA Today, CNBC, Bloomberg, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, PYMNTS.com, SC Magazine and SlashGear

Tweets: @steved3, @youranonnews and @dangillmor

Phillip Inman / Guardian:

US tries to strike deal with EU for immunity over online security breaches — Critics fear Tisa talks could be used to further interests of large corporations and undermine right to privacy — The US is attempting to secure immunity from investigation for online security breaches …

More: Associated Whistleblowing …, The Register, Access Blog, Electronic Frontier Foundation and ComputerworldUK.com. Tweets: @vivianeredingeu

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

FCC proposes expanding definition of pay-TV providers to include internet TV services — FCC Launches Effort to Help Online Video Providers Compete With Cable Guys — Federal regulators released new proposed rules Friday designed to make it easier for online video providers to get access …

More: Washington Post, The Verge, Ars Technica, CNET, Mashable, National Journal, Variety, Wall Street Journal, FierceOnlineVideo News, Washington Post, VideoInk and Broadcasting & Cable. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Messenger now uses “FacePiles” to show read receipts, indicates more send states for messages — Facebook Messenger Shows Its New Speed With FacePile Read Receipts — Milliseconds make a difference when it comes to chat. The less lag, the more it feels like being in the same room.

More: Cult of Mac, App Advice, Redmond Pie, David Marcus and iPhone in Canada Blog

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Stickered from Facebook's Creative Labs lets you add stickers to photos you send on Messenger; available for Android, coming to iOS

More: Android Police, The Daily Dot, YugaTech, Mashable, IntoMobile, iMore, PhoneDog.com, Facebook, VentureBeat and The Next Web

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