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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
The Apple Card, issued in partnership with Goldman Sachs, begins a preview rollout to randomly selected US customers today — Wide availability by the end of the month — Apple CEO Tim Cook said the Apple Card would arrive in August on the company's last earnings call, and here it is …
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Tweets: @reckless, @tomwarren, @reckless, and @reckless
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it blocked Russia-linked hacking group Fancy Bear from using compromised IoT devices to breach enterprise networks in April — Microsoft said it detected Strontium (APT28) targeting VoIP phones, printers, and video decoders. — One of Russia's elite state-sponsored hacking groups …
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| Michelle Nichols / Reuters: |
Leaked UN report: North Korea has generated an estimated $2B using widespread and sophisticated cyberattacks to steal from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges — UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programs using …
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Mashable, CoinDesk, Modern Consensus, Newser, Cointelegraph, New York Times, and The Block
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| Tom McKay / Gizmodo: |
Trump tweets a video of a Lou Dobbs interview with a fired Google engineer, who had proposed a Richard Spencer fundraiser and suggested skinheads rebrand — On Monday morning, President Donald Trump finally took the time to issue a (hollow and thoroughly unconvincing) denunciation …
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The Daily Caller, The Verge, Business Insider, The Hill, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump and @edbott
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
DOJ charges Pakistani man with bribing AT&T employees over $1M to install malware on the company's network, in a scheme that unlocked more than 2M devices — DOJ charges Pakistani man with bribing AT&T employees more than $1 million to install malware on the company's network, unlock more than 2 million devices.
Tweets: @campuscodi, @rstephens, @tedonprivacy, and @davezatz
| Monica Melton / Forbes: |
Cybereason, an endpoint detection and response platform, raises $200M Series E led by SoftBank at a $900M valuation — Cybereason, a cloud-based cybersecurity company and Forbes 2019 Next Billion-Dollar Startups honoree announced Tuesday $200 million in new funding.| Reuters: |
Report: Japan's FTC is investigating Apple over whether it pressured Japanese parts makers and abused its power in violation of antimonopoly rules — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Fair Trade Commission is investigating Apple Inc (AAPL.O) over its pressure on Japanese parts makers and whether …
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MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, MSPoweruser, and 9to5Mac
| Thomas Kaplan / New York Times: |
Since January, Trump's campaign has posted 2,000+ immigration-focused Facebook ads that use the word “invasion”; report suggests the ads cost $1.25M — Some of President Trump's re-election ads have repeated his inflammatory claims about an “invasion” on the southern border …
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| Aja Romano / Vox: |
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| Adrianne Jeffries / VICE: |
Late last year, Yelp's app quietly started routing restaurant customers' take out and delivery phone calls through Grubhub for tracking and marketing purposes — The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Google says it's shutting down its Trips app for mobile and will incorporate many of the features into its Travel site, Maps app, and Search — Google is shutting down its Trips app for mobile phones, but incorporating many of the functionality from the service into its Maps app and Search features …
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
IBM says cyberattacks against industrial targets have doubled in the last six months; when an enterprise is hit, 12,000+ workstations are damaged on average — 12,000 workstations on average will be damaged in cases of destructive malware. — Cyberattacks designed to cause damage … | Politico: |
A look at the 14 US states that used paperless voting machines in 2018, which experts say can easily be hacked, and the slow and uneven efforts to replace them — Paperless voting devices are a gaping weakness in the patchwork U.S. election system, security experts say.
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Politico and Politico
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
TickPick, a ticket markeplace which focuses on eliminating hidden fees, raises $40M from PWP Growth Equity, says it will hit $200M in transactions in 2019 — TickPick was founded back in 2011, but it never raised any institutional funding — until now, with the announcement of a $40 million investment from PWP Growth Equity.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Carro, a Singapore-based automotive marketplace and financing startup, closes $90M Series B after $30M extension, acquires Indonesia-based marketplace Jualo — Carro, an automotive marketplace and car financing startup based in Singapore, said it has raised $30 million to extend and close … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Android Security Bulletin for August 2019 patches QualPwn bugs that could have allowed attackers to compromise devices with Qualcomm chips over a Wi-Fi network — Patches for the QualPwn vulnerabilities have been released earlier today by both Qualcomm and the Android team.
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9to5Google, Android Open Source Project, Security Affairs, The Register, The Hacker News, BleepingComputer, Android Police, Android Central, Droid Life, 9to5Google, and XDA Developers
Tweets: @campuscodi, @campuscodi, and @mattk
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Microsoft debuts Azure Security Lab, to let researchers test Azure infrastructure in a contained environment, and expands Azure bug bounty rewards up to $40K — Researchers can earn up to $40,000 for reporting Azure vulnerabilities. — Microsoft is pushing for enhanced security …
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Microsoft Security …, VentureBeat, IT PRO, SecurityWeek, DEVCLASS, Softpedia News, Help Net Security, SiliconANGLE, Dark Reading, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @n0x08
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Cockroach Labs, developer of the open source distributed database project CockroachDB, raises $55M Series C co-led by Altimeter Capital, Tiger Global, and GV — Cockroach Labs, the New York-based developer of the open source distributed database project CockroachDB, today announced …
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PR Newswire, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, and Database Trends …
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Teralytics, which provides analytics data from telecom networks to mobility providers, raises $17.5M led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital — Teralytics AG, a Zurich, Switzerland-based mobility analytics company, raised $17.5m in funding round. — The round was led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH …
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PR Newswire, Tech.eu, and just-auto.com
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Vonage acquires the team and IP of Over.ai, which focuses on conversational AI for enterprises, to build out its speech to text and natural language algorithms — The acquihire will help Vonage build out its natural language and conversational AI algorithms.
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