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Avalanche, a 7-year-old botnet used for malware and phishing attacks, dismantled in global cyber operation; officials sinkhole 800K domains, seize 50 servers — At one point, Avalanche network was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks. — [Update, 3:00 PM EDT …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twitter acquires Yes Inc., hires ex-Google product director and Yes CEO Keith Coleman as VP of product; Yes apps to be shut down over next few weeks — Twitter has acquired the app maker Yes in a move designed to encourage its users to get better acquainted with each other around events.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Lenovo's Moto says it doesn't plan on releasing a new smartwatch in the near future — Don't expect a new Moto 360 any time soon — Moto today confirmed that it will not be releasing a new smartwatch for the launch of Android Wear 2.0, due early next year.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
AngelList has acquired Product Hunt, sources say for about $20M; Product Hunt will continue as a standalone site with Ryan Hoover continuing as CEO — Product Hunt will continue to operate as a standalone site. — AngelList, the company that helps investors find startups to invest in … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
AirDroid, a remote management app with 10M+ Play Store downloads, uses a static and easily detectable encryption key leaving users vulnerable to MITM attacks — For six months, the remote management app has opened users to code-execution attacks. — For at least the past six months …
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| Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
Internet Archive was allowed to publish an NSL in redacted form, after it challenged the legality of FBI's request and gag order directly in a letter — A decade ago, the FBI sent Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, a now-infamous type of subpoena known as a National Security Letter … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon debuts AWS Shield, its Cloudflare competitor, to protect against DDoS attacks, and offers two tiers; basic version will be on by default — A little more than a month after a massive online assault took down Reddit, Netflix, Twitter and other major online properties …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
HMD Global completes 10-year deal with Nokia to bring Nokia-branded devices to market; HMD says new smartphones are coming in the first half of 2017 — It's been a rough decade or so for Nokia's smartphone business. In 2011, then-CEO Stephen Elop famously described the company's situation as a …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Saudi Arabia hit by series of state-sponsored cyberattacks against government agencies; digital evidence suggests attacks emanated from Iran — @MichaelRileyDC More stories by Michael Riley — Multiple attacks emanated from Iran, digital evidence suggests
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Researchers bypass Apple's Activation Lock on iPhone and iPad running the latest version of iOS — Researchers have found a bug that can be used to bypass Apple's Activation Lock feature and gain access to the homescreen of locked iPhones and iPads running the latest version of iOS.| Kristina Cooke / Reuters: |
Facebook developing AI to flag nudity, violence, and other content violating its policies in Facebook Live streams — Facebook Inc (FB.O) is working on automatically flagging offensive material in live video streams, building on a growing effort to use artificial intelligence to monitor content …
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Survey of 700+ startup founders: 31% don't intend to IPO, 67% now say VCs have more negotiating power — First Round Capital just published its second-ever State of Startups report, and it's chock full of interesting sentiments from a survey of more than 700 founders …
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