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Trump downplayed the massive cyberattack on the US government, claiming that China may be responsible and the “Fake News Media” is exaggerating its extent — President Trump downplayed a massive cyberattack on U.S. government departments and agencies and private companies on Twitter Saturday …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Mike Pompeo says Russia is “pretty clearly” behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign, the first Trump administration official to publicly blame the country — Russia is behind the massive, ongoing cyber spy campaign against the federal government and private sector …
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| Associated Press: |
Sources: WH officials were ready to release a statement on Friday accusing Russia of being “the main actor” in the SolarWinds hack, but were told to stand down — WASHINGTON (AP) — Contradicting his secretary of state and other top officials, President Donald Trump …
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| ProPublica: |
Leaked docs show how China stage-managed what appeared on its domestic internet to make coronavirus look less severe in the early days of the outbreak — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.| New York Times: |
How a years long effort to create Cyberpunk 2077, marred by infighting, incompetence, and poor planning, brought the Polish studio CD Projekt RED to its knees — Nearly a decade of hype led to a troubled release riddled with glitches, a livid fan base, refunds for potentially millions of players and a possible class-action lawsuit.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
US officials say the hacking campaign involving SolarWinds would likely still be undetected if not for a security alert at FireEye that triggered scrutiny — Suspected Russian hack involving SolarWinds software that compromised parts of the U.S. government was executed on a scale that has surprised even veteran security experts
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| Brad Smith / Microsoft On the Issues: |
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
A new US law that goes into effect on December 20 will require ISPs to stop charging “rental” fees for equipment, such as routers, that customers own themselves — New law also targets hidden cable-TV fees and lets users cancel without penalty.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says its multi-service outage on Monday was caused by updates to its account authentication system which resulted in a system usage reporting error — Google started the week with a big outage that took down Gmail, Drive, and all other Workspace apps.| Patricia Hurtado / Bloomberg: |
DOJ charges a China-based executive at Zoom with disrupting video meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre; Zoom says it terminated the employee — - Worker accused of disrupting Tiananmen Square commemorations — Zoom says it fired Xinjiang Jin after internal investigation
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters: |
Apple puts manufacturing partner Wistron on probation, after an audit found violations of Apple's Supplier Code of Conduct at Wistron's Bengaluru plant — NEW DELHI/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Apple Inc has placed supplier Wistron Corp on probation, saying on Saturday it would not award …
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| Laurel Wamsley / NPR: |
Stanford apologizes for its vaccine distribution plan that left out almost all front-line workers in the first round, blames an algorithm in an internal email — Stanford Medicine apologized on Friday for its vaccine distribution plan - a plan that came under fire for leaving out nearly …
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| Janet W. Lee / Variety: |
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