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SolarWinds: under 18,000 customers were compromised between March and June via an update to its Orion software, leading to DHS, Treasury, Commerce Dept. hacks — LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. IT company SolarWinds said on Monday that up to 18,000 of its customers had downloaded …
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Volexity researchers say they noticed SolarWinds hackers bypass MFA protections at a think tank previously but were subsequently undetected for several years — Hackers who hit SolarWinds compromised a think tank three separate times. — The hackers behind the supply chain attack … | Reuters: |
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Ireland fines Twitter €450K for failing to promptly declare and document a data breach, in Europe's first GDPR decision of its kind — Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has issued Twitter with a fine of €450,000 (~$547k) for failing to promptly declare and properly document …
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FTC orders Amazon, ByteDance, Discord, Facebook and WhatsApp, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, and YouTube to share info on how they collect and use their users' data — - The Federal Trade Commission is requiring nine tech companies to share information about how they collect and use data from their users, the agency announced Monday.
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Critics and competitors argue that Google's massive web index, far surpassing its rivals in size, should be the focus of antitrust scrutiny — As regulators seek ways to curb the company's power, there is more focus on the vast index — hundreds of billion of web pages — behind its search engine.
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Pinterest to pay $22.5M to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by ex-COO Françoise Brougher, who said she was fired after speaking up about mistreatment — The suit had been brought by Françoise Brougher, Pinterest's former chief operating officer, who said she was fired after speaking up about mistreatment.
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| Financial Times: |
UK publishes its online safety legislation plans; tech companies will face fines of up to £18M or 10% of annual revenue if they fail to moderate illegal content — Long-awaited legislation will set out new duty-of-care requirements for online platforms
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Sources: Apple plans to produce up to 96M iPhones for H1 2021, a nearly 30% YoY increase, and is also working on a new Apple TV for next year — Robust orders come as smartphone industry faces severe parts shortages — TAIPEI — Apple plans to produce up to 96 million iPhones for the first half of 2021 …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok expands Community Guidelines to strengthen its existing policies in areas like harassment, self-harm, and violence, and unveils new well-being features — TikTok this morning announced a new set of Community Guidelines that aim to strengthen its existing policies in areas like harassment … | Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
Pornhub appears to be only accepting cryptocurrency for its premium service after Visa and Mastercard cut off payments to the website last week — It appears that Pornhub, the world's largest adult website, is only accepting crypto for its premium service.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases iOS 14.3 and macOS Big Sur 11.1 and launches its app privacy labels across all of its App Stores — At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June, the company announced it would soon require developers to disclose their app's privacy practices to customers via new …
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
California regulators fine Uber $59M for failing to give info on sexual assault cases, will cancel license if Uber fails to pay and provide info within 30 days — It has 30 days to pay — and answer — or risk suspension in California — Uber has 30 days to pay a $59 million fine …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Public, a social-focused free stock trading service, raises $65M Series C led by Accel — Less than a year after it raised a $15 million Series B, Public, a social-focused free stock trading service, has raised a $65 million Series C. — The startup is not the only company to raise successive rounds this year.Sponsor Posts
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