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December 11, 2021, 2:15 PM

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CNBC:
AWS blames its Tuesday outage on network devices overloading, says it will revamp its status page after complaints about support inquiries during the outage  —  - A major Amazon Web Services outage on Tuesday started after network devices got overloaded, the company said on Friday.
LunaSec Blog:
A vulnerability in the Apache log4j Java logging library allows for remote code execution, impacting Steam, iCloud, Minecraft, and other services  —  A few hours ago, a -day exploit in the popular Java logging library, log4j, was tweeted along with a POC posted on GitHub that results …
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record:
The Apache Software Foundation releases a security fix for log4j zero-day, which was discovered during a bug bounty engagement against Minecraft servers  —  The Apache Software Foundation has released an emergency security update today to patch a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a Java library that provides logging capabilities.
CNBC:
Instacart president Carolyn Everson says she will step down at the end of the year, less than four months after joining the company  —  - Another high-profile Instacart executive is leaving the company.  — Carolyn Everson announced Friday she will step down as president at the end of the year.
Mishaal Rahman:
How a bug in Microsoft Teams and Android 10 and above, triggered by the user not being logged in to the Teams app, may have caused 911 call fails  —  Written by Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) and edited by @linuxct, Kuba Wojciechowski (@Za_Raczke), and Al Sutton (@alsutton).
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
TrueNorth, a logistics service for independent truckers, raises a $50M Series B co-led by the Altman brothers and Lachy Groom, bringing total funding to $61.8M  —  Jin Stedge studied aerospace engineering at MIT, but after she found herself at Scotty Labs, an SRI International spin-out focused …
New York Times:
Investigation finds that a site providing directions on how to die is linked to ~45 suicides, as Google deflects responsibility for steering users to the site  —  It has the trappings of popular social media, a young audience and explicit content on suicide that other sites don't allow.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Volvo Cars discloses a security breach that led to R&D data theft and could impact the company's operations; the Snatch ransomware gang claims responsibility  —  Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars has disclosed that unknown attackers have stolen research and development information after hacking some of its servers.
Ben Brody / Protocol:
Profile of the Coalition for App Fairness, a group created by Epic, Spotify, Match Group, and others, seeking to open Google and Apple app stores to competition  —  When Kirsten Daru took a job as general counsel at Tile, she hadn't thought she'd still be using her background in antitrust …

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