Equifax executives sold stock after data breach, before informing public | $ES_F, $NQ_F, $EFX, $ZUMZ

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    Most often security questions to access those websites use that data like a previous address so this becomes an intelligence nightmare worse in many ways than the Office of Personnel Management government breach.
    Equifax Chairman and CEO Richard Smith apologized to consumers and customers and noted that he aware the breach affects what the company is supposed to protect.
    NBC News citing law enforcement sources reported that the FBI was actively investigating the incident and that the company has been cooperating with the bureau.
    Potentially adding to criticism of the company three senior executives including the chief financial officer John Gamble sold shares worth almost million in the days after the breach was discovered.
    Mark Warner a Virginia Democrat who the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus said he believed the severity of the Equifax breach raised serious questions about whether Congress needed to rethink data protection policies.
    is no exaggeration to suggest that a breach such as this exposing highly sensitive personal and financial information central for identity management and access to credit represents a real threat to the economic security of Americans he said in a statement.
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    The company promptly engaged a leading independent cybersecurity firm that has been conducting a comprehensive forensic review to determine the scope of the intrusion including the specific data impacted.
    Equifax has established a dedicated website to help consumers determine if their information has been potentially impacted and to sign up for credit file monitoring and identity theft protection.
    In addition to the website Equifax will send direct mail notices to consumers whose credit card numbers or dispute documents with personal identifying information were impacted.
    This study is based on a survey conducted August with adults who are members of Pew Research nationally representative American Trends Panel.
    Since at least half of Twitter users have reported getting news on the site but in with a president who frequentlymakesannouncementson the platform that share has increased to about up percentage points from last year.
    Twitter has the reverse structure from YouTube While a large share of its users get news on the site say they do its audience is significantly smaller overall.
    Facebook is facing a new push to reveal how its vast power is being used after it disclosed that roughly worth of political ads were purchased on its platform by fake accounts and pages connected to a Russian troll operation.
    Mark Warner of Virginia the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee said today that there may be a need to introduce new requirements for social media platforms running political ads.
    Last year the FEC adopted expanded rules requiring TV service providers and licensees as well as radio stations to share their political advertising files in a single online database.
    Potentially adding to criticism of the company three senior executives including the chief financial officer John Gamble sold shares worth almost million in the days after the breach was discovered.
    Mark Warner a Virginia Democrat who the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus said he believed the severity of the Equifax breach raised serious questions about whether Congress needed to rethink data protection policies.
    is no exaggeration to suggest that a breach such as this exposing highly sensitive personal and financial information central for identity management and access to credit represents a real threat to the economic security of Americans he said in a statement.
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    The company promptly engaged a leading independent cybersecurity firm that has been conducting a comprehensive forensic review to determine the scope of the intrusion including the specific data impacted.
    Equifax has established a dedicated website to help consumers determine if their information has been potentially impacted and to sign up for credit file monitoring and identity theft protection.
    In addition to the website Equifax will send direct mail notices to consumers whose credit card numbers or dispute documents with personal identifying information were impacted.
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$HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise beats on earnings after spin-off and More News | $FB, $HPE, $SRPT, $CBIO

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    Over the last seven years made historic investments in clean energy that helped companies create tens of thousands of good jobs.
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    We all want safe secure borders and a dynamic economy and people of goodwill can have legitimate disagreements about how to fix our immigration system so that everybody plays by the rules.
    Without residency papers their future job prospects were severely limited but they nonetheless decided to enter an underwater robotics contest sponsored by NASA and the US Navy.
    Today Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that President Trump administration is rescinding a executive order that protects students like these from deportation.
    The concern was so pronounced that Jeh Johnson the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security during President second term wrote Congress with assurances that the US government represented to applicants that the personal information they provided will not later be used for immigration enforcement purposes.
    Now here she was sharing her home address her height her weight and her phone number among other details all in order to receive protection from deportation under an policy called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA.
    But in order to qualify potential Dreamers had to pass a rigorous application process to ensure they met the policy eligibility requirements with regard to their age criminal record and educational backgrounds.
    This policy which may be modified superseded or rescinded at any time without notice is not intended to does not and may not be relied upon to create any right or benefit substantive or procedural enforceable by law by any party in any administrative civil or criminal matter it reads.
    Exclusive If you have an account on Taringa also known as The Latin American Reddit your account details may have compromised in a massive data breach that leaked login details of almost all of its over million is a popluar social network geared toward Latin American users who create and share thousands of posts every day on general interest topics like life hacks tutorials recipes reviews and art.
    The Hacker News has been informed by LeakBase a breach notification service who has obtained a copy of the hacked database containing details on accounts which includes usernames email addresses and hashed passwords for Taringa users.
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    Sarah Huckabee Sanders the White House press secretary indicated that Trump would support legislation to the DACA program as long as Congress passed it as part of a broader immigration overhaul to strengthen the border protect American jobs and enhance enforcement.
    As late as one hour before the decision was to be announced administration officials privately expressed concern that Trump might not fully grasp the details of the steps he was about to take and when he discovered their full impact would change his mind according to a person familiar with their thinking who was not authorized to comment on it and spoke on condition of anonymity.
    But the announcement means that if Congress fails to act immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children could face deportation as early as March to countries where many left at such young ages that they have no memory of them.
    The sheer size of it sucks you in when watching video and the aspect ratio lets it display lots of content at once or easily run two apps at the same time in multitasking mode.
    The iris scanner is quick and as secure as fingerprint methods but it still requires holding the phone up awkwardly close to my face and dramatically opening my eyes for it to work.
    Samsung has added new coloring book features in its S Pen software as well as the ability to take even longer notes on the lock screen than before.
    President Trump recently signaled plans to rescind the controversial policy that shields from deportation nearly young immigrants brought to the US illegally as minors.
    In response Zuckerberg quickly organized a joint letter with roughly business leaders from companies like Apple Google and Amazon calling on the government to protect the rights of Dreamers.
    Now that the Trump administration has said it will officially end DACA Zuckerberg has called on Congress to pass legislation that would give Dreamers a pathway to citizenship he wrote on Tuesday.
    In its complaint the FTC charged that beginning in August Lenovo began selling consumer laptops in the United States that came with a preinstalled software program called VisualDiscovery that interfered with how a browser interacted with websites and created serious security vulnerabilities.
    As part of the settlement with the FTC Lenovo is prohibited from misrepresenting any features of software preloaded on laptops that will inject advertising into Internet browsing sessions or transmit sensitive consumer information to third parties.
    The agreement will be subject to public comment for days beginning today and continuing through October after which the Commission will decide whether to make the proposed consent order final.
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    The good Beautiful screen long battery life helpful iris scanner for unlocking the phone better multitasking The bad Live Focus camera is as good as Apple Portrait Mode facial recognition is unreliable not significantly different than Galaxy and though more expensive Who should buy Android fans that really care about having a stylus and two cameras should opt for the Note but the Galaxy offers similar features at a lower price.
    For moderate users that plenty to get through a day and a half though competitor are nipping at Samsung heels in my experience Essential new Android phone lasted for about the same amount of time.
    Between the Note and the latest rumors surrounding Apple next iPhone one thing seems clear our smartphones are going to get smarter bigger and harbor new sensors designed to streamline everyday tasks.

 

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    Overnight between and a large Twitter botnet took aim at the account for the Digital Forensic Research Lab a project run by the Atlantic Council a political based in Washington.
    Those personal attacks which included tweets and images lamenting the supposed death of DFR senior fellow Ben Nimmo were then amplified and by tens of thousands of apparently automated accounts according to a blost post published today by DFRLab.
    Tags Atlantic Council Ben Nimmo Colin Crowell Daily Beast Digital Forensic Research Lab Donald Trump Ed Summers email bomb Eric Uman Jeff Larson Joseph Cox Kremlin Lauren Kirchner Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities ProPublica Twitter bots Vladimir Putin.
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    The company plans to introduce three new iPhone models a version of its Apple TV that can stream and a new version of the Apple Watch that can connect to LTE cellular data networks Bloomberg has reported.
    The event will be the first at the new Apple Park campus in Cupertino California the company said.
    The new design will include an OLED screen a facial recognition sensor to unlock the phone improved cameras to better support augmented reality apps and gesture controls instead of a home button.
    The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals DACA program which allows nearly Dreamers the basic opportunity to work and study without the threat of deportation is in jeopardy.
    All DACA recipients grew up in America registered with our government submitted to extensive background checks and are diligently giving back to our communities and paying income taxes.
    We call on Congress to pass the bipartisan DREAM Act or legislation that provides these young people raised in our country the permanent solution they deserve.
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    After initially eschewing Washington public policy debates which were seen in Silicon Valley as politics Google has developed an influence operation that is arguably more muscular and sophisticated than that of any other American company.
    Some tech lobbyists think tank officials and scholars argue that the efforts help explain why Google has mostly avoided damaging regulatory and enforcement decisions in the United States of the sort levied by the European Union in late June.
    willingness to spread cash around the think tanks and advocacy groups focused on internet and telecommunications policy has effectively muted if not silenced criticism of the company over the past several years said Marc Rotenberg the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
    New York Times story alleges that Google lobbied New America to expel the Open Markets program because of this press release.
    After more than years of doing strong policy work at New America Open position is not news to Google.
    For example one of our other programs Future Tense will be hosting several events later this year on the dangers of monopolies.
    One of the most important jobs of a founder is to recognize when things are going quite right and make the necessary decisions and take action to correct them before customers are impacted.
    Founders are often faced with thousands of daily to keep their companies on delivering products into the right markets at precisely the right time.
    We continue to believe deeply in our vision and the innovation we are bringing to life via our Home Phone and Camera products.
    After initially eschewing Washington public policy debates which were seen in Silicon Valley as politics Google has developed an influence operation that is arguably more muscular and sophisticated than that of any other American company.
    Some tech lobbyists think tank officials and scholars argue that the efforts help explain why Google has mostly avoided damaging regulatory and enforcement decisions in the United States of the sort levied by the European Union in late June.
    willingness to spread cash around the think tanks and advocacy groups focused on internet and telecommunications policy has effectively muted if not silenced criticism of the company over the past several years said Marc Rotenberg the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
    After initially eschewing Washington public policy debates which were seen in Silicon Valley as politics Google has developed an influence operation that is arguably more muscular and sophisticated than that of any other American company.
    Some tech lobbyists think tank officials and scholars argue that the efforts help explain why Google has mostly avoided damaging regulatory and enforcement decisions in the United States of the sort levied by the European Union in late June.
    willingness to spread cash around the think tanks and advocacy groups focused on internet and telecommunications policy has effectively muted if not silenced criticism of the company over the past several years said Marc Rotenberg the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
    In order to provide greater clarity and context to the issues raised in the New York Times article dated Wednesday August New America is releasing in its entirety email correspondence from its President and CEO Slaughter to the former director of Open Markets Barry Lynn.
    The first email quoted in the New York Times is from June a full year ago.
    Subsequently we continued to support the work of Open Markets while asking Barry to abide by institutional norms of transparency and collegiality.
    You have until midnight Eastern Time tomorrow night Wednesday to file comments on the Federal Communications Commission plan to deregulate broadband service and roll back net neutrality rules.
    Many comments are apparently from spam bots and form letters but Chairman Ajit Pai proposal to undo net neutrality rules has received massive attention.
    In a Congressional hearing a Democratic lawmaker pressed Pai to detail what kind of comments would change his mind about rolling back net neutrality rules.
    As always we encourage people to be vigilant about the security of their account and exercise caution if they encounter any suspicious activity such as unrecognized incoming calls texts and emails.
    Phone numbers and emails are important personal identifiers and potential hackers can find out a lot of information about people by investigating them.
    With an email address and a telephone number it not difficult to cross reference information online to find out more about a target even a celebrity said privacy expert Jessy Irwin.
    Last night some customers who had preordered an Essential phone received an email asking for a copy of their license ostensibly to verify their address in an attempt to prevent fraud.
    We spoke with one of the customers who received the email Professor Ron Schnell who also happens to know quite a lot about digital forensics he served as the CTO on Rand presidential campaign.
    What appears to have happened is that Essential had a list of customers it needed to verify to prevent fraud so it sent them an email requesting more information.
    On a warm Phoenix night five years ago Aaron Cashatt walked down the hall of the second floor of a Marriott hotel trying to move casually despite the adrenaline and methamphetamine surging through his bloodstream.
    When the electric shock switched off his muscle control however found out real fast that I As Cashatt tells it the cops handcuffed arrested and booked him without even allowing him to change clothes leaving him to sit in his own excrement for the next four hours.
    She drove for half an hour toward the Mexican border through the cotton and date fields and onto a road that seemed to end suddenly in a sea of dust nothing in sight but sand scrub and the highway rolling past behind her as she faced a sprawling prison complex.

 

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    working with manufacturers like Samsung Huawei LG ASUS and others to make this possible with a consistent bar for quality and high performance.
    Motion tracking Using the camera to observe feature points in the room and IMU sensor data ARCore determines both the position and orientation pose of the phone as it moves.
    We built Blocks and Tilt Brush to make it easy for anyone to quickly create great content for use in AR apps.
    He grew up in Tarrytown trained as an engineer at Brown and spent many years at IAC serving as Chief Financial Officer and in various operational and strategic roles.
    He has four children and not surprisingly loves to travel one of his favorite trips being to the Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia where his wife Sydney said yes to marrying him.
    Whether an Indian inspired samosa a good American burger or Vietnamese pho people in countries are using UberEATS to get a taste of the flavors at the push of a button.
    Amazon Apple Microsoft Google and nearly every other big tech company is pouring huge amounts of money into making digital assistants that are smarter and can do more seeing them as a new way for people to interact naturally with devices and online services.
    In a phone interview Nadella compared digital assistants like Cortana and Alexa to competing web browsers that provide access to the same pools of online information.
    Apple and Google may see competitive advantages in keeping their separate from rival assistants partly as a way to protect a selling point of their mobile software iOS and Android.
    With a crisper screen that takes up nearly the entire front Apple has tested the complete removal of the home a digital favor of new gesture controls for tasks like going to the main app grid and opening multitasking according to the people and the images.
    In the new iPhone Apple also plans a taller screen with rounded corners a cutout at the top of the display for the camera and sensors and new antenna locations the images show.
    The cutout is noticeable during app usage in the middle of the very top of the screen where the status bar the area that shows cellular reception the time and battery life would normally be placed according to the images.
    Microsoft has built its digital assistant more directly into its Office products and now Alexa will get that functionality via Cortana accessing work calendars and email for example.
    a surprise move by both companies and comes just as Microsoft is preparing to launch a Cortana speaker with Harman Kardon and push its digital assistant into cars thermostats and more devices.
    Amazon Microsoft Apple and Google have all built rival digital assistants that have been seen as walled gardens blocked off from each other and this partnership signals a move to make them work better together.
    Some tech lobbyists think tank officials and scholars argue that the efforts help explain why Google has mostly avoided damaging regulatory and enforcement decisions in the United States of the sort levied by the European Union in late June.
    The Open statement that drew ire praised the fine and called on United States regulators to more aggressively enforce antitrust rules against Google Amazon and dominant platform.
    willingness to spread cash around the think tanks and advocacy groups focused on internet and telecommunications policy has effectively muted if not silenced criticism of the company over the past several years said Marc Rotenberg the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
    Speaking publicly for the first time since getting picked to run Uber the outgoing Expedia CEO suggested he plans to tackle allegations of sexual discrimination and systemic cultural issues at the giant.
    is a company that is redefining the transportation industry on a global basis to be part of that story is something that is interesting and would be a real privilege Khosrowshahi said in an interview at headquarters in Bellevue Washington.
    At the end of a contentious CEO search Khosrowshahi emerged as the dark horse beating out candidates such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise Meg Whitman and General Electric Jeffrey Immelt.
    A report from Bloomberg provides fresh details on how Apple plans to replace the button with new gestures and navigational elements for the iPhone user interface.
    On the lock screen users pull this bar upwards to unlock the phone reminiscent of the iconic to action that Apple removed in iOS.
    Bloomberg says recent test devices position the time on the left whilst the right side shows signal bars WiFi indicator and battery life.
    board was still too fractured Meg Whitman chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise said of Jason Henry for The New York Times Earlier on Tuesday in an interview at offices in Bellevue Khosrowshahi said of the company would be happy to get.
    Whitman a veteran of the tech industry who had led multiple public companies quickly became a favorite candidate of Benchmark one of largest investors which also has a board seat.
    Jeffrey Immelt the former chief executive of General Electric dropped out of the race to lead Uber on Sebastien Getty Images Some of points to board members did echo.
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    Amazon is completed its billion acquisition of the Austin grocery chain on Monday dramatically expanding the tech footprint and is already making changes.
    Inside the Whole Foods at South Lake Union on Monday morning just steps away from headquarters in Seattle there was signage notifying customers of Whole new parent.
    The rapid changeover makes it clear that the Whole Foods and Amazon teams were coordinating in advance at least to a limited extent which is unusual when corporate acquisitions are still pending.
    ET Apple is scrambling to strike deals with Hollywood studios to offer definition films on its new Apple TV but discussions have been hampered by disagreements over pricing according to people with knowledge of the talks.
    The tech giant will unveil the new version of its streaming media device at an event and tout its compatibility with new televisions people with knowledge of its plans said.
    The format offers pixels per sharper than traditional.
    Uber said it needed permission to always gather data in order to track riders for five minutes after a trip was completed which the company believed could help in ensuring customers physical safety.
    If Uber decides that tracking a location for five minutes is valuable in the future it will seek to explain what the value is and allow customers to opt in to the setting he said.
    The change comes two weeks after Uber settled a Federal Trade Commission complaint that the company failed to protect the personal information of drivers and passengers and was deceptive about its efforts to prevent snooping by its employees.
    Amazon closes its Whole Foods acquisition deal today making the supermarket chain an official subsidiary of the online giant.
    As of opening time for most Whole Foods stores on the east coast Amazon already marked its territory with display stands for Echo smart speakers.
    Whole Foods is signifying price cuts with an orange tag complete with the Amazon logo slapped across.
    As we get ready for a big week with our partners I would like to share with you some exciting details about our product including the first wave of content experiences you can immerse yourself in this holiday.
    This also means these experiences are portable whether you are traveling for work or visiting friends and family just pack your PC and headset and you can share the magic of mixed reality.
    Both configurations will support immersive video and gaming experiences such as traveling to a new country exploring space swimming with dolphins or shooting zombies.
    ET Apple is scrambling to strike deals with Hollywood studios to offer definition films on its new Apple TV but discussions have been hampered by disagreements over pricing according to people with knowledge of the talks.
    The tech giant will unveil the new version of its streaming media device at an event and tout its compatibility with new televisions people with knowledge of its plans said.
    The format offers pixels per sharper than traditional.
    That was Tim Cook Apple chief executive across the table from me over breakfast here in downtown Austin late last week at the end of a across the country during which he focused on topics usually reserved for politicians manufacturing jobs and education.
    He then flew to Des Moines where he announced plans to make a billion investment in a data center in nearby Waukee to help store and move giant amounts of information for its services like iCloud and FaceTime.
    As we finished up breakfast before we headed over to Austin Capital Factory an incubator for tech where he would announce the new curriculum I mentioned a question that some in Silicon Valley and elsewhere have asked Is his focus on jobs and speeches in front of American flags a hint at something bigger.
    If the judge does not allow the case to go to arbitration it expose the company to significant and unnecessary harm for no reason other than desire to use this forum to publicly slander Kalanick with its fabricated allegations lawyers write.
    proposed new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was presented as a candidate between the warring sides but will still have to navigate the unabated board tension along with the lawsuit which has yet to show signs of calming.
    Meg Whitman choice for CEO intended to end the on the board and limit role at the company.
    And now Cook is one of the many business leaders in the country who appear to be filling the void using his platform at Apple to wade into larger social issues that typically fell beyond the mandate of executives in past generations.
    He was vocal for example in criticizing Trump after Charlottesville in a memo to his staff disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights.
    As we finished up breakfast before we headed over to Capital Factory an incubator for tech where he would announce the new curriculum I mentioned a question that some in Silicon Valley and elsewhere have asked Is his focus on jobs and speeches in front of American flags a hint at something bigger.
    And now Cook is one of the many business leaders in the country who appear to be filling the void using his platform at Apple to wade into larger social issues that typically fell beyond the mandate of executives in past generations.
    He was vocal for example in criticizing Trump after Charlottesville in a memo to his staff disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights.
    As we finished up breakfast before we headed over to Capital Factory an incubator for tech where he would announce the new curriculum I mentioned a question that some in Silicon Valley and elsewhere have asked Is his focus on jobs and speeches in front of American flags a hint at something bigger.
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