by Alpha | May 16, 2017 | Pre-Market
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However as part of our ongoing investigation today we confirmed that a malicious third party had gained temporary access to a separate system that allows us to communicate announcements to users via email.
As a leader in online eSignature security and compliance DocuSign has a policy for this type of malicious email and is fully prepared to ensure minimal impact to our customers and company.
As a leader in online eSignature security and compliance DocuSign has a policy for this type of malicious email and is fully prepared to ensure minimal impact to our customers and company.
So finally found enough time between emails and Skype calls to write up on the crazy events which occurred over Friday which was supposed to be part of my week off I made it a total of days without working so that.
While the domain was propagating I ran the sample again in my virtual environment to be met with WannaCrypt ransom page but more interestingly was that after encrypting the fake files I left there as a test it started connecting out to random IP addresses on port used by SMB.
I contacted Kafeine about this and he linked me to the following freshly posted tweet made by ProofPoint researcher Darien Huss who stated the opposite that our registration of the domain had actually stopped the ransomware and prevent the spread.
Continue reading the main story Le Thi Thu Hang a spokeswoman for the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry called the findings of the report and said the country looked forward to working internationally to fight digital breaches.
and more companies have to hire experts and train the staff to understand the security risks that are part of their everyday working routine said Amanuel Flobbe the chairman of the Information and Communications Technology Sector Committee at the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam.
This year the president of Microsoft Brad Smith called for a digital Geneva Convention to push back against a raft of political hackings that have targeted elections in the United States and Europe.
The emails the DocuSign brand in an attempt to trick recipients into opening an attached Word document that when clicked installs malicious software.
As part of our process in response to phishing incidents we confirmed that core eSignature service envelopes and customer documents remain secure.
However as part of our ongoing investigation today we confirmed that a malicious third party had gained temporary access to a separate system that allows us to communicate announcements to users via email.
Outlook and Implications Based on incident response investigations product detections and intelligence observations along with additional publications on the same operators FireEye assesses that is a cyber espionage group aligned with Vietnamese government interests.
While the motivation for each private sector compromise varied and in some cases was unknown the unauthorized access could serve as a platform for law enforcement intellectual property theft or anticorruption measures that could ultimately erode the competitive advantage of targeted organizations.
While actors from China Iran Russia and North Korea remain the most active cyber espionage threats tracked and responded to by FireEye reflects a growing host of new countries that have adopted this dynamic capability.
The camera filter known on the service as a Lens let them see their heads in the shape of a giant wobbling hardshell taco with lettuce and tomato poking out and the logo in the corner of the shot.
On May Snapchat began rolling out a slate of promotional Lenses that superimpose corporate logos as well as silly tacos on buildings horizon lines and other elements of a photos and videos not just faces.
This kind of deluxe advertising may buoy Snap temporarily but it remains to be seen whether Facebook can learn the same whether the Lenses will drive the to Taco Bell says Harry Kargman CEO of maker Kargo.
Facebook asked for viewer feedback and heard that users find these static images or pools to be interesting or engaging Live content.
But if publishers who post thes keep getting negative feedback their reach could shrink and Facebook seays it will continue to monitor this trend.
Facebook has poured a ton of engineering and marketing resources into owning the verb go Keeping the quality of these broadcasts high is critical to it recouping those costs over the by being the the premier place to record and watch Live social content.
By end the Pentagon wants computers to be leading the hunt for Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria through turning countless hours of aerial surveillance video into actionable intelligence.
part of Project Maven a effort launched last month by Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work to accelerate improve and put to wider use the use of machine learning.
have to tackle the problem a different way said Air Force John Shanahan director for defense intelligence for warfighter support and the man tasked with finding the new technology.
by Alpha | May 15, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. Aurinia Reports First Quarter 2017 Financial Results, Announces Initiation of Phase III Aurora Clinical Trial, and Provides Operational Highlights
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. has released its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017. Amounts, unless specified otherwise, are expressed in U.S.
2. Cyberattack Is Likely to Keep Spreading
The cyberattack that spread around the globe over the weekend, hitting businesses, hospitals and government agencies in at least 150 countries, is likely to keep growing as people around the world return to work, law-enforcement authorities warned.
3. Thermo Fisher to buy drug ingredients maker Patheon for $5.2 billion
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc (TMO.N), the world’s No. 1 maker of scientific instruments, said on Monday it would buy Dutch drug ingredients maker Patheon NV (PTHN.N) as it looks to become a one-stop shop for contract drug development and manufacturing.
4. Biogen Acquires Remedy Pharmaceuticals’ CIRARA™ for Large Hemispheric Stroke
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6. Ionis Pharmaceuticals Announces Phase 3 NEURO-TTR Study of Inotersen (IONIS-TTR Rx) Meets Both Primary Endpoints
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The ransomware used in attack wreaked havoc on organisations including FedEx and Telefónica as well as the National Health Service NHS where operations were cancelled test results and patient records became unavailable and phones did not work.
But the spread of the attack was brought to a sudden halt when one UK cybersecurity researcher tweeting as malwaretechblog with the help of Darien Huss from security firm Proofpoint found and inadvertently activated a in the malicious software.
By Friday evening the ransomware had spread to the United States and South America though Europe and Russia remained the hardest hit according to security researchers Malware Hunter Team.
More broadly Australia risks being left behind at a time when countries like China and India are looking to nurture their own cultures to match the success of Silicon Valley and keep their economies on the cutting edge.
The internet modernization plan has been hobbled by cost overruns partisan maneuvering and a major technical compromise that put technology between the digital backbone and many of its homes and businesses.
was the first country where a totally national plan to cover every house or business was considered said Rod Tucker a University of Melbourne professor and a member of the expert panel that advised on the effort.
Five businesses in South Korea reported ransomware attacks over the weekend according to the internet security agency and a Korean theater chain said moviegoers on Sunday alerted them when computer ransom notes appeared on screens instead of programmed advertisements.
Among the organizations hit were FedEx in the United States the Spanish telecom giant Telefónica the French automaker Renault universities in China federal railway system and Interior Ministry.
in July that updating hardware and software was matter of urgency and noted that one hospital had already had to pay about to repair a breach that began after an employee clicked on a web link in an unsafe email.
As thousands of organizations work to contain and clean up the mess from this devastating Wana ransomware attack the fraudsters responsible for releasing the digital contagion are no doubt counting their earnings and congratulating themselves on a job well done.
The Wana ransomware became a global epidemic virtually overnight this week after criminals started distributing copies of the malware with the help of a security vulnerability in Windows computers that Microsoft patched in March.
As I observed on several occasions in my book Spam Nation which tracked the careers of some of the most successful malware writers and pharmacy pill spammers on the planet it was often disheartening to see how little money most of those guys made given the sheer amount of digital disease they were pumping out into the Internet on a daily basis.
Amazon seems to have made a significant oversight in bringing voice calls and messaging to its Echo speakers no way to block communication that you might not want.
When you enable the calling and messaging features Amazon accesses your contacts list to determine who else has an Echo device in their home.
Amazon wants Alexa calling and messaging to gain popularity so taking a broad approach to populate that list quickly.
minivan in Detroit at the North American International Auto Show in Brett Carlsen for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO As the race to bring vehicles to the public intensifies two of Silicon most prominent players are teaming up.
Waymo the car unit that operates under parent company has signed a deal with the Lyft according to two people familiar with the agreement who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Continue reading the main story The deal between Waymo and Lyft has competitive implications for Uber the biggest company which has recently had to confront a spate of workplace and legal problems.
really helped to drive adoption of Google in the classroom while Apple and Microsoft continued to leverage traditional sales channels said Phillip DiBartolo the chief information officer of Chicago Public Schools.
Casap quickly persuaded university officials to scrap their costly internal email service an unusual move at the time and replace it with a free version of the package that Google had been selling to companies.
a private company very creatively using public resources in this instance time and expertise to build new markets at low cost said Patricia Burch an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California.
May HackerFantasticWCRY ransomware SLAP tool with version.
COBOL historically been the most attractive option for a hip young programmer admitted to Stuart McGill chief technology officer at development tools vendor Micro Focus.
In a March thread on Hacker News someone described learning COBOL as swallowing a barbed pill lamenting the legacy code with technical extended updated moved to new hardware over and Documentation if any is hopelessly out of.
Reuters reported that Hinshaw divides his time between children and grandchildren helping companies avert crippling computer When he started programming instructions were coded into punch cards which were fed into mainframes.
by Alpha | May 11, 2017 | Pre-Market
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XBiotech offered no reason for Thornburg’s resignation, but he left two weeks after European regulators issued a preliminary recommendation to reject the application for the company’s colon cancer drug Xilonix.
3. Verizon to enter definitive agreement to buy Straight Path for $184 per share
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to tell them they were being targeted In December after the former investment banker and finance minister had emerged as easily the most and Union candidate in the presidential race they began receiving phishing emails.
only good news is that this activity is now commonplace and the general population is so used to the idea of a Russian hand behind this that it backfired on them said John Hultquist the director of cyberespionage analysis at FireEye the Silicon Valley security firm.
One purported to detail the purchase of the stimulant mephedrone sometimes sold as salts by a Macron campaign staffer who allegedly had the drugs shipped to the address of National Assembly.
We care a lot about building and investing in compelling and interactive virtual reality experiences and have created many of our YouTube Street View and Photos on Daydream to Google Earth VR and Tilt Brush.
They created games like Job Simulator and Rick and Morty Virtual which have really thoughtful interactive experiences that are responsive intuitive and feel natural.
Together we be working to create engaging immersive games and developing new interaction models across many different platforms to continue bringing the best VR experiences to life.
When the panelists sat down she uncapped water bottles for them when the moderator conducted a set of quick audience polls she took photos of upraised hands when Dombrovskis talked about industry she twisted in her chair to listen to every word not looking away from him once.
With the research capacities of a staff Vestager makes decisions related to cartelization and antitrust approves or rejects mergers and investigates state aid cases in which member countries single out companies for unfair advantages such as tax breaks.
When Anthony Gardner worked for GE Capital in the early the commissioner Mario Monti spiked merger with Honeywell International Welch had thought this was a political could slam his fist on the table and threaten retaliation.
to tell them they were being targeted In December after the former investment banker and finance minister had emerged as easily the most and Union candidate in the presidential race they began receiving phishing emails.
only good news is that this activity is now commonplace and the general population is so used to the idea of a Russian hand behind this that it backfired on them said John Hultquist the director of cyberespionage analysis at FireEye the Silicon Valley security firm.
One purported to detail the purchase of the stimulant mephedrone sometimes sold as salts by a Macron campaign staffer who allegedly had the drugs shipped to the address of National Assembly.
Amid trouble at Facebook and Google unprofitable underdog Snapchat aims for engagement As the company behind the viral ephemeral messaging app and Spectacles glasses Snap IPO was the biggest technology offering since Alibaba.
We made good progress this quarter improving the performance and quality of our Snapchat application especially on Android which has helped result in increased net user adds and engagement Khan told CNBC.
Snap should have set its expectations lower Art Hogan chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities told CNBC Closing Bell on Wednesday.
The duo switched to investment management the following year when they saw an opportunity to lend money to Malaysian and Sri Lankan rubber plantations providing tires for new Model The firm soon branched out backing railroads in the and then automakers and steel mills the growth stocks of th Century America.
The Scottish firm is a major backer ofRocket Internet SE the controversial technology incubator run by entrepreneurOliver Samwerand his brothers thatarefamous for copying the business models of Silicon Valley startups.
Baillie Gifford understood Nvidia as a way to bet on the growth of artificial graphics processing units are in high demand for machine learning Slater said the firm was concerned about the vagaries of tech hardware investing.
He thinks that running a public company is what you do if you want to be a real Titan of Industry like Barry Diller.
official explanation from its filing It will him to continue growing our business and improving our financial results so that we could undertake an initial public offering which we regard as an important milestone that will provide liquidity to our stockholders and.
Our board of directors approved the award to Spiegel in July to motivate him to continue growing our business and improving our financial results so that we could undertake an initial public offering which we regard as an important milestone that will provide liquidity to our stockholders and.
Snap uses the and websites as means of disclosing material information and for complying with its disclosure obligation under Regulation FD.
Additionally we believe that Free Cash Flow is an important measure since we use infrastructure partners to host our services and therefore we do not incur significant capital expenditures to support revenue generating activities.
We are presenting the measures of Adjusted EBITDA and Free Cash Flow to assist investors in seeing our financial performance through the eyes of management and because we believe that these measures provide an additional tool for investors to use in comparing our core financial performance over multiple periods with other companies in our industry.
The company which makes the popular messaging app Snapchat reported revenue of million.
also a cost item billion in compensation which the filing explains as recognition of expense related to RSUs with a performance condition satisfied on the effectiveness of the registration statement for our initial public.
The company will hold a call with analysts and investors at pm ET to provide some more context and be listening in and liveblogging the event click here.
by Alpha | May 10, 2017 | Pre-Market
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An experimental biotech drug for severe asthma from AstraZeneca failed to meet its goal of significantly reducing attacks in a late-stage study, dealing a blow to an approach that had already run into problems at Roche .
3. AstraZeneca provides update on STRATOS 1 Phase III trial of tralokinumab in severe, uncontrolled asthma
Tralokinumab did not meet its primary endpoint of a significant reduction in the annual asthma exacerbation rate
4. Tesla’s solar roof tiles go up for pre-order today
Tesla is opening up pre-orders for its solar roof tiles today — a little later than previously slated. CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the company will be..
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created one of the smallest wireless video cameras in the world capable of taking a worth of Snaps on a single charge and we integrated it seamlessly into a fun pair of sunglasses available in different colors.
We hope that this change will improve your experience with Snapchat and Spectacles and create a structure that allows us to continue making great new products for you and your friends.
Geostickers are available now in Los Angeles New York City San Francisco Washington DC Honolulu London Sydney São Paulo Paris and Riyadh.
ET ROTTERDAM the recent afternoon at a station on the outskirts of this Dutch city the price of a gallon of unleaded gas started ticking higher rising more than cents by closing time.
A little later a competing station miles down the road raised its price about the same amount.
The two stations are among thousands of companies that use software to set prices.
Rating is available when the video has been rented.
Watch video flash briefings and YouTube control smart home devices like lights and cameras plus see music lyrics photos weather forecasts and shopping lists and more.
Talk with anyone who has an Echo Echo Dot or the Alexa App or drop in for a live visit over video with other Echo Show owners AskAlexa.
Watch video flash briefings and YouTube see music lyrics security cameras photos weather forecasts and shopping lists and more.
These enable people speak to it in regular phrases to get answers from a vast database of information or to command it to do things for you along the lines of what you might have in the past ordered or purchased through a web interface or via an app.
The Look takes that one step further by bringing in computer vision including a camera to expand the kinds of functionality and responses provided by the Echo.
The Show has the same basic capabilities as the regular Echo like setting timers and listening to music but the display adds plenty of new functionality.
Amazon says the device can also be connected to security cameras letting users check their video feed with commands like show me the front.
Amazon says it imagines this feature will only be used in a small number of scenarios like checking in on an elderly relative.
Snapchat added a set of new creative tools to its arsenal today amid a growing rivalry with army of clones most notably Instagram.
Starting today you can create a virtual pen out of emoji letting you spell out a word out of smiley faces or hearts.
changes allow us to continue evolving the Snapchat service and provide a foundation for introducing even more creative tools for making fun snaps the company said in a blog post.
latest product the Beddit is a thin strip of sensors that goes across a bed analyzing data such as time and efficiency heart rate respiration temperature movement snoring room temperature and room humidity according to a product description.
expect to see an mattress popping up any time soon chances are the folks in Cupertino are more interested in the methods of measuring sleep quality.
What happens long term is unclear as Apple very rarely acquires companies that continue to operate independently though recent acquisition Workflow just received an update that added functionality as well as maintenance.
by Alpha | May 9, 2017 | Pre-Market
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Canada’s Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (VRX.N) (VRX.TO) reported its first profit in six quarters, helped by a one-time tax gain, and raised its full-year earnings forecast, sending its U.S. shares up 13 percent in premarket trading.
3. Sanofi vows to limit 2017 price hikes to 5.4% as part of new ‘holistic’ policy | FiercePharma
Sanofi may be late to the pricing-pledge party but it’s come up with some benchmarks that beat its rivals. Rather than limiting price hikes to less than 10%, the French drugmaker promises to keep any price increases at or below an official U.S. health inflation measure that’s projected to hit 5.4% in 2017.
4. Elliott Takes Akzo Nobel to Court to Oust Chairman in PPG Bid Battle
U.S. activist investor Elliott Management has asked a Dutch court to force Akzo Nobel to hold a special shareholder meeting seeking the removal of its chairman, its latest attempt to strong-arm the paint maker into sale talks with rival PPG.
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They released open data that gave us the opportunity to build an app to help the people of London.
We built software for everything including realtime operational control to driver management to scheduling systems.
In the future explain in more detail how smarter bus tech leads to better mobility and cities.
Equal access to online information is once again under serious threat.
John Oliver encourages internet commenters to voice their displeasure to the FCC by visiting and clicking express to file your comment.
Connect with Last Week Tonight online Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens.
VIENNA Facebook must remove postings deemed as hate speech an Austrian court has ruled in a legal victory for campaigners who want to force social media companies to combat online trolling.
The case comes as legislators around Europe are considering ways of forcing Facebook Google Twitter and others to rapidly remove hate speech or incitement to violence.
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has said hate speech has no place on the platform and the company has published a policy paper on how it wants to work against false news.
ET One of the most basic human activities writing is getting an assist from machines.
Startup Grammarly uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help improve writing from basic spelling grammar and style to more advanced suggestions on tone and language.
The San Francisco company has been.
Alipay owned by Jack Ant Financial reached a deal that will let its users shop at million merchants served by payments processor First Data the companies said Monday in a joint statement.
Apple mobile payments service can be used at million locations in the Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said last week on a call with analysts.
Still Alipay which started in as an online payments processor for Alibaba Group Holding sites is entering a market much less reliant on mobile transactions than its home country.
Michael Dell after closing the merger with EMC is investing in new ways to bolster his company lineup that provides gear and modern software for data centers.
Looking for an edge against rivals such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise the venture unit called Dell Technologies Capital is likely to invest in new startups or perhaps more this year Darling said.
But while that might have made sense in the past the deal created Dell Technologies a behemoth in the tech world in terms of sales and employees so it now time to highlight investments to others the executives said.
In pursuit of international growth where networks are slow and data is expensive Instagram has given its mobile website a massive upgrade that adds core features of the main app including photo sharing and a lightweight version of the Explore tab.
With the exanded mobile web version users can skip the app wait time data costs and storage needs while still getting the basic functionality.
Since Snapchat is so and Snap Inc prioritized building for international markets and Android users its app work as well in the developing world.
hope to draw from the impressive talent pool as we grow helping the dozens of researchers we plan to hire stay connected to the Corridor Travis Kalanick embattled CEO wrote in a blog post published this morning.
Though Uber rose to prominence offering a smartphone app for hailing rides it has rapidly embraced the idea of driverless cars over the past few years building a hub dedicated to the technology near Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and purchasing the San Francisco autonomous vehicle company Otto for an estimated million.
But its plans were thrown into doubt when Waymo sued the company accusing Anthony Levandowski an Otto founder and former Googler of stealing trade secrets related to the lidar sensors that help driverless cars view the world around them.
by Alpha | May 8, 2017 | Pre-Market
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6. Tyson Foods profit falls as plant fires hurt production
Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N), the No. 1 U.S. meat processor, reported a 21.3 percent slump in quarterly profit as a fire at two of its plants in the period disrupted chicken production, hurting sales at the company’s second-biggest business.
7. Coach to buy rival Kate Spade for $2.4 billion
Handbag maker Coach Inc (COH.N) said it would buy Kate Spade & Co (KATE.N) for $2.4 billion as it looks tap the smaller rival’s popularity among millennials.
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Opinion polls show independent centrist Macron is set to beat National Front candidate Le Pen in Sunday second round of voting in what is seen to be France most important election in decades.
intelligence agencies said in January that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered hacking of parties tied to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to influence the election on behalf of Republican rival Donald Trump.
Reporting by Eric Auchard in Frankfurt Michel Rose and Bate Felix in Paris Jim Finkle in Toronto Writing by Andrew Callus Editing by Sandra Smith.
In addition to the normal proscription of campaign on election eve the government issued a statement saying specifically that anyone disseminating the materials in this dump in France could be liable to prosecution and calling on the media to shoulder their by steering clear of them.
As reported by The Daily Beast part of the Macron campaign strategy against Fancy Bear also known as Pawn Storm and was to sign on to the phishing pages and plant bogus information.
can flood these phishing addresses with multiple passwords and true ones false ones so the people behind them use up a lot of time trying to figure them out Mounir Mahjoubi the head of digital team told The Daily Beast for its earlier article on this subject.
In a blog post written by Embedi the company of the researcher who discovered the vulnerability a bullet point stood out.
Drawing on past experience when we reported an vulnerability in which the length of credential comparison is controlled by the attacker memcmp we tested out a case in which only a portion of the correct response hash is sent to the AMT web server.
On May Intel responded confirming that it was the same vulnerability and requested we wait to share our findings until Pacific time that day.
The effort to snag exclusive shows is being led by CollegeHumor cofounder Ricky Van Veen whom Facebook hired in December to be its global creative strategy chief.
His small team has been meeting with production companies and hearing pitches for episodic shows five to minutes long that would live in a revamped version of Facebook video tab.
The new video strategy pits Facebook directly against YouTube which on Thursday announced it would fund a slate of original shows starring big names like Ellen DeGeneres Kevin Hart and Katy Perry.
Back in December rumors started flying that Facebook was looking to follow Amazon Hulu and Netflix into the original content game.
With premium services like Amazon reducing the number of cable subscribers networks like YouTube see an opportunity to snatch up defectors.
And while Snapchat is still far behind Facebook in user count Zuckerberg worries that his company is behind the times when it comes to innovation and attracting younger eyeballs.
In a blog post written by Embedi the company of the researcher who discovered the vulnerability a bullet point stood out.
Drawing on past experience when we reported an vulnerability in which the length of credential comparison is controlled by the attacker memcmp we tested out a case in which only a portion of the correct response hash is sent to the AMT web server.
On May Intel responded confirming that it was the same vulnerability and requested we wait to share our findings until Pacific time that day.
The effort to snag exclusive shows is being led by CollegeHumor cofounder Ricky Van Veen whom Facebook hired in December to be its global creative strategy chief.
His small team has been meeting with production companies and hearing pitches for episodic shows five to minutes long that would live in a revamped version of Facebook video tab.
The new video strategy pits Facebook directly against YouTube which on Thursday announced it would fund a slate of original shows starring big names like Ellen DeGeneres Kevin Hart and Katy Perry.
According to a blog post published Friday by Tenable Network Security the cryptographic hash that the interface digest access authentication requires to verify someone is authorized to log in can be anything at all including no string at all.
The browser sends instead a response hash computed on a string composed of various items including a variable nonce sent by the server in addition to the password for example.
The problem is what happens if you do use a browser but you generate an invalid request manually or using a proxy to alter the response sending an empty string instead of the character hash.
According to a blog post published Friday by Tenable Network Security the cryptographic hash that the interface digest access authentication requires to verify someone is authorized to log in can be anything at all including no string at all.
The browser sends instead a response hash computed on a string composed of various items including a variable nonce sent by the server in addition to the password for example.
The problem is what happens if you do use a browser but you generate an invalid request manually or using a proxy to alter the response sending an empty string instead of the character hash.
But if there one message Zuckerberg and his dozens of staffers want to get across it that this tour is not an elaborate publicity stunt designed to set the stage for his eventual run for office.
Amy Dudley the chief spokeswoman for his philanthropic fund The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was previously the communications director for Hillary Clinton running mate and Virginia senator Tim Kaine.
Zuckerberg visit to Ohio last week included a community college machine learning lab an opioid addiction clinic and a juvenile detention center according to the spokesperson.
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