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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Sources: state-backed Russian hacking group APT29, or Cozy Bear, is behind the hacks of US Treasury, NTIA, and FireEye — The Russian government hackers who breached a top cybersecurity firm are behind a global espionage campaign that also compromised the Treasury and Commerce departments …
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| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
Sources: state sponsored hackers monitored internal emails at US Treasury and broke into National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Office 365 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sophisticated hacking group backed by a foreign government stole information from the U.S. Treasury Department …
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Treasury's hackers used a flaw in a SolarWinds product; SolarWinds, which touts 300K+ customers, says the flaw was the result of a “supply chain attack” — Russia's foreign intelligence service is suspected of being behind the hacks — WASHINGTON—Multiple federal …
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| Ben Smith / New York Times: |
Sources: Apple TV+ was making Scraper, a show about Gawker Media, with several episodes written, then Tim Cook sent an email about it and the project was killed — Big tech companies now exert huge influence over what stories get told. The message is clear: Be careful who you offend.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook fears cracking down on Hindu extremist groups in India because of the likelihood that it could lead to violence toward its staff — Social media giant's security team cites possible attacks if extremist Hindu groups are kicked off platform
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| The Information: |
Sources: Reddit has agreed to buy lip-syncing video app and TikTok rival Dubsmash; a formal announcement is expected on Monday — Reddit, the 15-year-old online news aggregator and discussion forum, has agreed to buy lip-syncing video app Dubsmash, one of the few remaining startups to rival TikTok …
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| Mark Kleinman / Sky News: |
Source: EA has ignited a bidding war for Codemasters, topping Take-Two Interactive's £725M offer that was agreed upon last month for the British game developer — The $40bn US-based games giant EA has ignited a bidding war for Britain's Codemasters, Sky News understands. — Created with Sketch.
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| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Nēsos, which is developing a noninvasive, drug-free method to treat rheumatoid arthritis using a wearable earbud, comes out of stealth with $16.5M in funding — Nēsos launched out of stealth Thursday and is poised to commercialize a new method for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.| GlobeNewswire: |
Vista Equity Partners announces it is acquiring Utah-based IT training and workforce development company Pluralsight for $3.5B — Vista to acquire all outstanding shares of Pluralsight for $20.26 per share in cash — Pluralsight, Inc. (NASDAQ: PS), the technology workforce development company …
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Modal, which provides ecommerce services for automotive dealers and brands, raises $15M Series A led by American Honda, bringing its total raised to ~$20M — Buying a car can be a daunting experience, but Modal is out to make the process easier and in a way that can be accomplished from the comfort of your couch.
Tweets: @crunchbasenews
| Benjamin Powers / CoinDesk: |
How US FinCEN became a honeypot for sensitive personal data, a situation made worse by the banking industry's defensive filing of suspicious activity reports — If a despotic government's bank transactions can be leaked, so can yours. — That's perhaps the most overlooked yet unsettling implication … | Rakesh Prakash / Times of India: |
Violent unrest erupts at Wistron's iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru in India, sources say over the company's failure to pay promised wages — A screenshot of the video showing employees damaging properties at the iPhone manufacturing plant. — BENGALURU: The iPhone manufacturing plant …
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