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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
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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Tweets: @zcobb, @europol, @arstechnicauk, @josephfcox, and @nca_uk
| 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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Tweets: @jack, @kcoleman, @adam_messinger, @caseysoftware, @crazyfoo, @btaylor, @modestproposal1, @shellen, @eringriffith, and @davegershgorn
| 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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Tweets: @tim, @drbarnard, @dcrainmakerblog, @backlon, and @pierce
| 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 … | 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.| 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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Tweets: @oddletters and @grady_booch
| 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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ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, The Register, eWeek, All Things Distributed, AWS Blog, TechCrunch, PCWorld, internetretailer.com, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @kennwhite. Thanks:@taylor_soper
| 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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Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, TechSpot, The Tech Portal, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, Engadget, and Consumerist
Tweets: @dseetharaman and @mhbergen
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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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The Verge, The Verge, ABC News, Nokia, Ars Technica, HMD Global, Reuters, Mobile Magazine, Softpedia News, International Business Times, Tech Times, BGR, Digital Trends, Android Authority, TechSpot, NDTV Gadgets 360, iPhone in Canada Blog, On MSFT, CIO.com, Liliputing, The Register, Android Police, Digital Trends, PhoneArena, and Forbes
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
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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First Round Capltal, VentureBeat, Recode, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @joshk, @sean_a_rose, @barkowconsult, @rezendi, @jberiker, and @chrismaddern
| 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 … | Hamza Shaban / BuzzFeed: |
Secure messaging app Signal's downloads increase 400% after Trump's win, amid anxiety over the future of US surveillance — “I think there's a lot of fear, given Trump's alarming statements about surveillance and his penchant for revenge, that he will attempt to use surveillance to crush dissent."
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