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SolarWinds hack may be much worse than originally feared
The hackers may have operated within the US to evade Homeland Security
theverge.com

Zuckerberg announces 'indefinite' ban on Trump's Facebook, Instagram accounts | ZDNet
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Facebook and Instagram accounts of President Donald Trump will remain blocked for at least the next two weeks.
zdnet.com

Zoom Shared US User Data With Beijing to Ensure Chinese Market Access, Court Documents Show
A Zoom executive worked with Chinese authorities to provide data on users located outside of China and ensure ...
theepochtimes.com

Flash is finally dead. Here's how to remove it from your computer.
We'll miss you, buddy.
mashable.com

Subway marketing system hacked to send TrickBot malware emails
Subway UK has disclosed that a hacked system used for marketing campaigns is responsible for the malware-laden phishing emails sent to customers yesterday.
bleepingcomputer.com

Microsoft, FireEye confirm SolarWinds supply chain attack | ZDNet
Known victims so far include the US Treasury, the US NTIA, and FireEye itself.
zdnet.com

Google down: Gmail, Docs, YouTube users hit by outage | ZDNet
Multiple Google services including Gmail, Docs, YouTube and Nest have gone down.
zdnet.com

Region's top doctor issues instructions for businesses, workplaces to slow spread of COVID-19
Waterloo Region's top doctor has issued a set of instructions to local businesses in an effort to help limit the spread of COVID-19.
kitchener.ctvnews.ca

AI Solves 50-Year-Old Biology 'Grand Challenge' Decades Before Experts Predicted
A long-standing and incredibly complex scientific problem concerning the structure and behaviour of proteins has been effectively solved by a new artificial intelligence (AI) system,
sciencealert.com

Diane Francis: The spy who burned us
Canada's membership in the Five Eyes alliance has been damaged by a lingering espionage and law-enforcement scandal in Ottawa that's been shrouded in secrecy
financialpost.com

Microsoft could soon assign each and every Office worker a 'Productivity Score' - MSPoweruser
In July Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Workplace Analytics, a new organizational analytics solution that will provide rich, actionable insights into organization’s communication
mspoweruser.com

FBI warns of recently registered domains spoofing its sites
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning the general public of the risks behind recently registered FBI-related domains that spoof some of the federal law
bleepingcomputer.com

2FA bypass discovered in web hosting software cPanel | ZDNet
More than 70 million sites are managed via cPanel software, according to the company.
zdnet.com
Vatican asks Instagram to investigate mysterious papal 'like' of model
The Vatican said on Friday that it had asked Instagram to investigate how a "like" attributed to Pope Francis' official account ended up on a
reuters.com
Jeffrey Paul: Your Computer Isn't Yours
I’m speaking, of course, of the world that Richard Stallman predicted in 1997. The one Cory Doctorow also warned us about.
sneak.berlin

How Ticketmaster Plans to Check Your Vaccine Status for Concerts: Exclusive
Ticketmaster has been working on a framework for post-pandemic fan safety that uses smart phones to verify fans' vaccination status or COVID-19 test results.
billboard.com

Police Will Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras
Updated as of 11/5/2020: This blog post has been updated with a statement from Amazon in regards to the pilot program described in the Jackson
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Mall real estate company collected 5 million images of shoppers, say privacy watchdogs | CBC News
The real estate company behind some of Canada's most popular shopping centres embedded cameras inside its digital information kiosks at 12 shopping malls in major
cbc.ca