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1. COP, NADL: 
$NADL BRIEF-Seadrill: North Atlantic drilling wins ConocoPhillips $COP contract – Reuters
$NADL BRIEF-Seadrill: North Atlantic drilling wins ConocoPhillips $COP contract – Reuters2. SALE: $SALE RetailMeNot to Be Acquired by Harland Clarke Holdings for $11.60 per share in Cash – PRN
$SALE RetailMeNot to Be Acquired by Harland Clarke Holdings for $11.60 per share in Cash – PRN14. DIS: $DIS Goldman Sachs Upgrades Walt Disney to Conviction Buy, Expects Growth To Accelerate, $138 PT
$DIS Goldman Sachs Upgrades Walt Disney to Conviction Buy, Expects Growth To Accelerate, $138 PT16. L: $L SYMBOL CORRECTION: Loews to pay $1.2 billion to buy Consolidated Container from Bain Capital – MW
$L SYMBOL CORRECTION: Loews to pay $1.2 billion to buy Consolidated Container from Bain Capital – MW18. SEAC: $SEAC SeaChange reports 4Q loss – AP
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2. OMED:$OMED downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at BMO.
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1. WFM:$WFM became a big share loser.. Innovation was in the form of more community orientation.. not CRM
2. PNRA:Panera now trading at $316, above JAB’s price, in premarket trading. $PNRA
4. CYTX:$CYTX 8.6M shares priced at $1.10
6. NADL:$NADL was 2+ before refinance talks bogged down …. if this solves that issue… then still has some room here
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- Malware that WikiLeaks purports belongs to the Central Intelligence Agency has been definitively tied to an advanced hacking operation that has been penetrating governments and private industries around the world for years researchers from security firm Symantec say.
- Longhorn has used advanced malware tools and vulnerabilities to infiltrate a string of targets worldwide Symantec researchers wrote in a blog post published Monday.
- Symantec also uncovered them the code word scoobysnack software compilation showed Longhorn members spoke English and likely lived in North America.
- The American intelligence agencies have said Russian hackers broke into the servers of the Democratic National Committee and the email of Hillary campaign chairman and released documents in an effort to sway the election toward Donald Trump.
- The researchers said Peter Severa had been on closed chat sites trying to recruit underground hackers for a later abandoned effort by the Russian security services to crash Islamic extremist websites.
- Peter spam operation ran a sophisticated evolving family of computer viruses called Waledac and later Kelihos developed in part by a former military engineer also living in Petersburg named Andrei Sabelnikov according to a American court filing by Microsoft.
- The Justice Department maintains that Severa was the Russian partner of Alan Ralsky a convicted American spammer who specialized in spam schemes designed to artificially inflate the value of penny stocks.
- According to the stolen SpamIt records Severa this time using the alias Viktor Sergeevich brought in revenues of and earned commissions of spamming rogue online pharmacy sites over a period.
- The Reuters story on arrest cited reporting from Russian news outlet RT which associated Levashov with hacking attacks linked to alleged interference in last election.
- Speaking at his Paris launch Mr Macron said he wants to legally compel social media companies to give authorities access to encrypted messages between terror suspects.
- Ms Le Pen who heads the National Front party created by her father was heavily criticised at the weekend for saying France was not responsible for rounding up Jews to send them to Nazi death camps during the World War Two.
- However late on Sunday Ms Le Pen issued a statement saying her stance in no way exonerates the effective and personal responsibility of the French people who took part in the horrible Vel roundup and in all the atrocities committed during this period.
- operation announced today targeted an ongoing international scheme that was distributing hundreds of millions of fraudulent per year intercepting the credentials to online and financial accounts belonging to thousands of Americans and spreading ransomware throughout our networks.
- success in disrupting the Kelihos botnet was the result of strong cooperation between private industry experts and law enforcement and the use of innovative legal and technical tactics.
- April we started the extraordinary task of blocking malicious domains associated with the Khelios botnet to prohibit further infections said FBI Special Agent in Charge Ritzman.
- Freestyle was founded by Josh Felser and Dave Samuel serial entrepreneurs who had previously built and sold a couple of companies together.
- For Fund IV Freestyle upped the ante and raised million in part so that it could put Lefcourt on an equal footing with the founding partners.
- Hiring a new general partner is never an easy decision to make especially when talking about adding an equal third to a couple of guys who have been working together for the past two decades.
- stand with airline pilots flight attendants and flying public against the plan to allow people to make cellphone calls on planes Pai told USA TODAY in a statement.
- Flight attendants were among the most vocally opposed to lifting the ban because of concerns including passengers ignoring safety briefings getting into fights over noise or possibly helping terrorists coordinate attacks.
- Cathleen Freesen of Springfield said would be pure hell on a plane in that confined space to have to listen to inane Robert Laurens of Atlanta who said he flies segments per year urged the department to THE BAN ON PHONE CALLS IN.
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