2023-12-23
Judge rules that Twitter violated contract when it withheld millions of dollars in bonuses Current and former Twitter employees said they never received bonuses they were promised during Elon Musk's buyout of the social media platform. https://www.courthousenews.com/ ...
Courthouse News Service
A US federal judge rules that Twitter breached its contracts with its employees by failing to pay bonuses in 2022, despite promising to pay 50% of the amounts
Current and former Twitter employees said they never received bonuses they were promised during Elon Musk's buyout of the social media platform.
2023-06-03
Twitter lost its head of brand safety and ad quality, people familiar with the matter said—the 2nd departure of a safety executive this week as the company tries to win back advertisers https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: A.J. Brown, Twitter's head of brand safety and ad quality, is leaving the company, the second departure of a top safety executive this week
A.J. Brown's departure comes after Ella Irwin, company's head of trust and safety, left Thursday — Twitter lost a second senior executive …
2023-03-31
Secret trove offers rare look into Russian cyberwar ambitions More than 5,000 pages of documents from a Moscow-based contractor offer unusual glimpses into planning and training for security services, including the notorious hacking group Sandworm https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
The Guardian
Leaked documents from Moscow-based NTC Vulkan reveal the company helps the GRU, FSB, and SVR with hacking operations, national infrastructure attacks, and more
2022-09-03
—The FTC is investigating https://amazon.com/ Inc.'s $3.9 billion deal to buy1Life Healthcare Inc., which operates One Medical primary care clinics in 25 U.S. markets. https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Filing: the FTC is investigating Amazon's $3.9B deal to buy One Medical
Probe adds to issues Amazon faces at antitrust enforcement agency — Amazon vs. Walmart: How the Giants Look to Each Other to Best Each Other — Created with sketchtool.
—The FTC is investigating https://amazon.com/ Inc.'s $3.9 billion deal to buy1Life Healthcare Inc., which operates One Medical primary care clinics in 25 U.S. markets. https://www.wsj.com/...
Politico
Sources: the FTC has begun a review of Amazon's $1.7B takeover of iRobot to assess if the deal violates antitrust law and illegally boosts Amazon's market share
The FTC has officially begun a review of Amazon's $1.7 billion takeover of robot vacuum maker iRobot to decide …
2022-02-23
Behind the stalkerware network spilling the private phone data of hundreds of thousands Spyware is often sold under the guise of child monitoring software, aka “stalkerware” for its ability to track & monitor other people or spouses without their consent https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
A look at nine Android spyware apps, installed on ~400K phones, which connect to servers controlled by Vietnam-based 1Byte and share a critical security flaw
A fleet of spyware apps share the same security flaw — Much of the spyware you hear of today are the powerful nation-state backed exploits …
2021-12-08
Google is suing two Russia-based individuals it alleges are behind a massive network of infected computers that have been used for crimes ranging from the theft of personal info to secretly mining bitcoin on the computers of unsuspecting hacking victims. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Bloomberg
Google sues two Russians it claims help run a botnet that has infected 1M+ devices and uses command-and-control server addresses stored on Bitcoin's blockchain
- Complaint says the two created a sophisticated ‘botnet’ — Glupteba sells stolen logins, credit cards, Google says Source: The Keyword .
2021-10-07
The High Court has found that the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, interfered w/ British justice by ordering the hacking of the phone of his ex-wife, Princess Haya of Jordan. Princess Haya said the discovery had made her feel “hunted & haunted” https://www.bbc.com/...
The Guardian
UK High Court rules that Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed, used NSO Group's Pegasus to hack the phone of his ex-wife and five associates
Sheikh Mohammed used spyware on Princess Haya and five associates in unlawful abuse of power, judge rules — The ruler of Dubai hacked the phone …
2021-08-28
Microsoft warned clients that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases, according to a copy of the email and a cyber security researcher. The vulnerability is in Microsoft Azure's flagship Cosmos database. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers that a now-fixed Azure Cosmos vulnerability might have exposed databases, but it saw no evidence it was exploited
Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies …
2021-08-27
Microsoft warned clients that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases, according to a copy of the email and a cyber security researcher. The vulnerability is in Microsoft Azure's flagship Cosmos database. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers that a now-fixed Azure Cosmos vulnerability might have exposed databases, but it saw no evidence it was exploited
Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies …
2021-07-22
Man Arrested in Connection with Alleged Role in Twitter Hack In addition to the hack of Twitter, O'Connor is charged with computer intrusions related to takeovers of TikTok & Snapchat user accounts. O'Connor is also charged with cyberstalking a juvenile. https://www.justice.gov/...
Engadget
Spanish police have arrested UK citizen Joseph O'Connor at the US' request over his alleged involvement in last year's hack of high-profile Twitter accounts
Jon Fingas / Engadget :
2021-06-27
Amazon Acquires Encrypted Messaging App Wickr Wickr is a popular encrypted messaging platform used by journalists, criminals, governments, and businesses. H/T @amys_here https://www.vice.com/...
TechCrunch
Amazon's AWS acquires encrypted messaging service Wickr, says it will continue operating the service and offer it to AWS customers
TechCrunch :
2021-06-26
Amazon Acquires Encrypted Messaging App Wickr Wickr is a popular encrypted messaging platform used by journalists, criminals, governments, and businesses. H/T @amys_here https://www.vice.com/...
TechCrunch
Amazon's AWS acquires encrypted messaging service Wickr, says it will continue operating the service and offer it to AWS customers
Amazon's cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced …
2021-04-05
A leaker offers info on more than 500M FB users - including phone numbers and other data - virtually for free. Leaked data appeared to be the fruit of a ‘bugfix’ in Aug 2019. FB users should be alert to “social engineering attacks,” by hackers & trolls. https://www.reuters.com/...
Insider
Personally identifiable data of 533M Facebook users has been posted online; Facebook says the data comes from a leak that was reported on and fixed in 2019
- The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.
2021-04-04
A leaker offers info on more than 500M FB users - including phone numbers and other data - virtually for free. Leaked data appeared to be the fruit of a ‘bugfix’ in Aug 2019. FB users should be alert to “social engineering attacks,” by hackers & trolls. https://www.reuters.com/...
Insider
Personally identifiable data of 533M Facebook users has been posted online; Facebook says the data comes from a leak that was reported on and fixed in 2019
- The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.
2021-03-16
China's tech giants test way around Apple's new privacy rules ByteDance and Tencent see if they can keep tracking iPhone users with solution created by state-backed group https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: Tencent and ByteDance are testing a new tool called CAID, developed by the China Advertising Association, to bypass Apple's IDFA ad privacy changes
ByteDance and Tencent see if they can keep tracking iPhone users with solution created by state-backed group
2021-03-13
Microsoft is investigating whether a world-wide cyberattack on tens of thousands of its corporate customers may have been linked to a leak of private information the company disclosed to partners https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: tools used in the Feb. 28 Exchange hack are similar to proof-of-concept attack code that Microsoft distributed to security partners a week earlier
Investigators seeking to unravel how attack spread in week before software fix — Microsoft Corp. is investigating whether …
2021-01-03
Facebook Inc's chief of advertising integrity, who handled the company's ad products around sensitive subjects such as politics and coronavirus misinformation, departed this week, according to an internal company post viewed by Reuters on Friday. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Rob Leathern, Facebook's chief of advertising integrity who handled ad products around sensitive subjects, says he left the company on December 30
Katie Paul / Reuters :
2021-01-02
Facebook Inc's chief of advertising integrity, who handled the company's ad products around sensitive subjects such as politics and coronavirus misinformation, departed this week, according to an internal company post viewed by Reuters on Friday. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Rob Leathern, Facebook's chief of advertising integrity who handled ad products around sensitive subjects, says he left the company on December 30
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's chief of advertising integrity, who handled the company's ad products around sensitive subjects such as politics …
2020-08-29
AT&T is taking a fresh look at its DirecTV business, according to people familiar with the matter, exploring a deal for a satellite-TV service wounded by cord-cutting https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: AT&T is again exploring a DirecTV sale and is in talks with PE firms for a deal that could value it below $20B; AT&T bought DirecTV for $49B in 2015
Wall Street Journal :