Techmeme: Researchers spot the first successful attack using Windows BlueKeep vulnerability; the exploit is not a worm and installs cryptominers, instead of ransomware (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Researchers spot the first successful attack using Windows BlueKeep vulnerability; the exploit is not a worm and installs cryptominers, instead of ransomware — After months of warnings, the first successful attack using Microsoft's BlueKeep vulnerability has arrived—but isn't nearly as bad as it could have been.

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Klint Finley / Wired:

Wikipedia partners with The Internet Archive to turn book citations into links to two-page previews, using Archive's scanned-in books as sources for ~130K links — The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia's users to check citations from books as well as the web.

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft unveils a new logo for Edge Chromium, ahead of the release of the final version of the browser — The new icon is a wave surfing the web — Microsoft is refreshing the logo for its Chromium-based Edge browser. The software giant originally unveiled its Edge icon more than four years ago …

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:

Unprotected database for popular “camgirl” sites run by Spain-based VTS Media exposed months worth of user activity logs and chats, details about sex workers — A number of popular “camgirl” sites have exposed millions of sex workers and users after the company running the sites left the back-end database unprotected.

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david.dev:

Apple is now rejecting Mac apps using modern versions of Electron, citing private API usage, warns developers repeated App Store submissions can lead to a ban — Allright, as a follow up to the previous chapter in this odyssey I can now state that, apparently, you cannot submit an electron 6 or 7 app to the apple store:

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South China Morning Post:

A look at China-backed News Break, which was the top downloaded Android and #2 iOS news app in the US from Jan. through Sept., topping ByteDance's TopBuzz — Both news aggregation apps provide a more personalised news-reading experience, but ‘David’ is beating ‘Goliath’ in this case News Break …

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Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal:

Profile of Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading — Jim Simons was a middle-aged mathematician in a strip mall who knew little about finance. He had to overcome his own doubts to turn Wall Street on its head.

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Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

Android bug impacting all Android 8 or later devices lets hackers plant malware via NFC beaming and circumvent the installation security prompt; patch available — All Android 8 (Oreo) or later devices are impacted. Google released a patch last month, in October 2019.

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Quynh Nguyen / DealStreetAsia:

South Korea-based autonomous transportation-as-a-service startup Code42 raises $25M pre-Series A led by Kia Motors — South Korea's autonomous transportation-as-a-service startup CODE42 has raised $25 million (KRW 30 billion) in its pre-Series A funding round led by Kia Motors …

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