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The U.S. Department of Justice said that four members of the People's Liberation Army, an arm of the Chinese military, have been charged with breaking into the networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency, and stealing personal information of tens of millions of Americans, according to the Associated Press. This is specifically regarding the data breach that Equifax experienced on
Mike O'Connor bought the domain name corp.com in 1994. He is now interested in selling it, but has concerns that someone working with organized cybercriminals, or state-funded hacking groups, will buy it. If that happens, it could be devastating to corporations failed to update the name of their active directory path. Krebs on Security has a detailed blog about exactly
Vodafone is going to strip Huawei systems out of the core of its European network, according to Financial Times. Doing so will cost €200m as the European telecoms sector moves to adapt to new limits on the use Huawei's equipment. Financial Times reported that Vodofone Chief executive Nick Read said the process would take five years because of the complexity
TechCrunch reported that Facebook has acquired Scape Technologies. The company was founded in 2016 and is located in Shoreditch, London. Scape Technologies is building a cloud-based Vision Engine that allows camera devices to understand their environment, using computer vision. Rather than relying on 3D maps built and stored locally, Scape's Vision Engine builds and references 3D maps in the cloud,
TechCrunch reported that Instagram confirmed that it has internally prototyped an Instagram Partner Program that would let creators earn money by showing advertisements along with their videos. The goals seems to be to entice creators to put their videos on IGTV in the hopes of being able to earn money. It sounds like Instagram is hoping the potential for earning
The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided not to reconsider an October ruling that upheld the repeal of net neutrality rules. The court declined without comment. Personally, I think the court's lack of explanation as to why they chose to ignore the request from 15 states and several advocacy groups – is cowardly. According to
One million dollars and SpaceX will launch 440 kilograms into space. This is down 1 million dollars and now can be all scheduled online and of course, they take American Express. Lot's of great news stories today that you will want to tune into the show for. I also talk about my schedule over the next couple of weeks. Lots