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Twitter provides an overview of what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, how it reacted, and the next steps — As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action.
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| New York Times: |
A person involved in Twitter hack may have gained access to Twitter's internal dashboard using credentials pinned in one of the company's Slack channels — Several people involved in the events that took down Twitter this week spoke with The Times. What might have been a pursuit of Bitcoin spun out of control.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Twitter says hackers downloaded account info, which may include DMs, of up to 8 accounts via its “Your Twitter Data” tool, but none of the 8 were verified users — But it sounds like the attackers didn't get Biden's data cache — On Friday evening, Twitter issued …
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Tweets: @harrymccracken, @pakman, and @alexhern
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Twitter says around 130 accounts were affected in Wednesday's hack, and the attackers gained control of and sent tweets from a subset of those accounts — - “We believe approximately 130 accounts were targeted by the attackers in some way as part of the incident," Twitter said Thursday.
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Tweets: @twittersupport, @ericgeller, @benlower, @tomgara, @thehill, @bbcnews, @reuters, @variety, @chrismessina, @pinboard, and @janaktvu
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
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Tweets: @eff, @somebadideas, @anthony, @eamonjavers, @eamonjavers, @donie, @ericgeller, @vpkivimaki, @twittersupport, @campuscodi, @ronwyden, @donie, @mikeisaac, @twittersupport, @erikgroset, @dcbyron, @derekdoestech, @envirosec, @taviso, @starfire2258, @katebevan, @karlbode, @b52malmet, and @twittersupport
| Shaun Nichols / The Register: |
Researchers say seven Hong Kong-based “no log” VPNs have left 1TB+ of user logs and personally identifiable info exposed on the internet — Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: 'No-logging VPN? I meant, no! Logging VPN!' — BIO EMAIL TWITTER
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Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @quinnypig, @anonopsse, @swiftonsecurity, @troyhunt, and @j0hnnyxm4s
| Kari Soo Lindberg / Bloomberg: |
Trump campaign urges supporters to sign a petition to ban TikTok, saying TikTok has been caught “red handed by monitoring what is on your phone's Clipboard” — - Ads are targeting supporters in battleground election states — Teens on TikTok signed up to Trump rally with no plans to go| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Some experts agree that TikTok may pose a threat to the US national security because of China, but blocking the app would be too drastic a measure — Concerns about the Chinese government shouldn't be dismissed, experts say. But banning TikTok would be a drastic measure.| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Current and former employees provide an inside look at Airbnb amid layoffs, as its warm and fuzzy office culture met with the business realities of a pandemic — What happens when a kumbaya office culture meets the business realities of a pandemic? — SAN FRANCISCO — On May 5 …
Tweets: @nbashaw, @briangaar, @eringriffith, @karaswisher, @roseveleth, @nytimes, @chrisalbon, @alex_peys, and @mdudas
| Adam Clark Estes / Vox: |
A brief history of video chat, how it has evolved, and how the pandemic has forced big tech to develop new ways to make it feel more like real-life interactions — Photo of Picturephone 1965: Bettmann/Gettyimages — It looks like we're stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing?| Julia Metcalf / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub took a 21TB snapshot of all active public repositories on February 2 and deposited it in the Arctic Code Vault on July 8 using 186 reels of archival film — At GitHub Universe 2019, we introduced the GitHub Archive Program along with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault.| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
How tech companies place favorable newspaper op-eds, purportedly from small business owners, think tanks, and academics, without disclosing their involvement — Why you should probably read opinion pieces supporting the tech giants with skepticism. — 7 hr
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Bloomberg. Tweets: @ddayen, @sub8u, @kantrowitz, @emilybell, @mariafarrell, @dylanbyers, @hshaban, @kantrowitz, @ozm, @dseetharaman, @ddayen, @s8mb, @econ_marshall, @kantrowitz, and @jason_kint
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
The FBI is using Sabre, the biggest of three firms that store a majority of the world's travel info, to spy on suspects' movements through sealed court orders — American border patrol already has significant surveillance powers and collects vast amounts of data on who is flying into and out of the country.
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Forbes. Tweets: @culturejedi, @iblametom, @iblametom, @iblametom, @kimzetter, @iblametom, and @forbes
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