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Equifax discovered major breach in March but says it's unrelated to recently disclosed hack affecting 143M people; source says both involve the same intruders — New timeline could have implications for executive stock sales — The company is the subject of multiple investigations
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Sources: DoJ has opened a criminal investigation into three Equifax executives' stock sales that occurred days after the historic data breach was discovered — U.S. attorney in Atlanta said to lead probe alongside SEC — Managers unaware of breach when they sold stock, company said
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AWS says that beginning October 2, it will start charging EC2 customers by the second, not hour; competitors Azure and Google Cloud charge by the minute — Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services on Monday said that on Oct. 2 it will start charging its customers by the second for use …
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| Cory Doctorow / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF says it's resigning from W3C after the standards org voted for browser DRM, a move hostile to archiving, accessibility, security research, more — In 2013, EFF was disappointed to learn that the W3C had taken on the project of standardizing “Encrypted Media Extensions,” …
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Hackers hid backdoor in Avast-owned system cleanup tool CCleaner for Windows from August 15 to September 12; affected software was run by 2.27M users — Users of Avast-owned security application CCleaner for Windows have been advised to update their software immediately …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple File System will be limited to Macs with only flash storage in the initial release of High Sierra, which means it won't work on iMacs with Fusion Drives — When macOS High Sierra is released to the public next week, the new Apple File System (APFS) feature will be limited to Macs … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Former Facebook and Snap ad exec Sriram Krishnan announces he is joining Twitter as senior director of product — Krishnan, who previously worked on ad tech, is trying something new. — Twitter has hired Sriram Krishnan, a former ad tech executive from Facebook and Snap, but he won't be working on ads.| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
Keybase launches alpha version of Teams, an open source and end-to-end encrypted Slack-like tool for collaboration amongst groups — Chris Coyne and Max Krohn are going for the hat trick. — The two entrepreneurs, who are co-founders of the literature summary site SparkNotes and dating service OkCupid … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple Pay Cash is coming in a future update to iOS 11 and watchOS 4 in the fall, not in the iOS 11 launch tomorrow — Apple today confirmed that Apple Pay Cash will be released as part of a future update to iOS 11 and watchOS 4. … Apple added a “Coming This Fall” label to Apple Pay Cash …
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| SamMobile: |
Samsung rolls out update to let Galaxy S8, S8+, and Note8 owners disable the Bixby button but still does not let the button be remapped to another purpose — The dedicated Bixby button on the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ didn't really serve any meaningful purpose until last month when Bixby Voice was rolled out globally.
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| Ryan Lau / Hacker Noon: |
iOS 11 has many cases of inconsistent UI design, possibly due to new elements like Large Title and Search Bar with which Apple engineers may be unfamiliar — Few days ago, Apple had their fall special event at Steve Jobs Theater located inside Apple Park, unveiling the all screen iPhone X … | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A profile of Satya Nadella, who has stopped infighting, restored morale, and has led Microsoft over the past 3.5 years as its market cap increased by $250B+ — Microsoft's CEO has stopped infighting, restored morale, and created more than $250 billion in market value. All it took was focusing on what matters most.
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