Fast Company takes its website offline after a hacker used its Apple News account to send two obscene push notifications; Apple News disabled Fast’s channel (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

September 28, 2022

Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Fast Company takes its website offline after a hacker used its Apple News account to send two obscene push notifications; Apple News disabled Fast’s channel — It’s been a little while since we had a high-profile media feed hijacking, but tonight someone sent an Apple News notification …

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YouTube expands its tools to curtail toxic comments, sending users a notification when their comment is removed and temporarily banning them from commenting (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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YouTube expands its tools to curtail toxic comments, sending users a notification when their comment is removed and temporarily banning them from commenting — Toxic and hateful comments on YouTube have been a constant headache for the company, creators and users.

December 14, 2022

Russia’s second-largest bank, VTB, is hit with a large DDoS attack causing its apps and website to go offline; “IT Army of Ukraine” claims credit for the attack (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Russia’s second-largest bank, VTB, is hit with a large DDoS attack causing its apps and website to go offline; “IT Army of Ukraine” claims credit for the attack — Russia’s second-largest financial institution VTB Bank says it is facing the worse cyberattack in its history …

December 6, 2022

Elon Musk tweets that “any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended” (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Elon Musk tweets that “any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended” — Elon Musk’s Twitter has a new rule for everyone with an account on Twitter to follow, as he announced from his own account …

November 7, 2022

Fast Company brings its site back online after eight days offline, saying a cyberattack hit its CMS and “no customer or advertiser information was disclosed” (Brendan Vaughan/Fast Company)

Brendan Vaughan / Fast Company:
Fast Company brings its site back online after eight days offline, saying a cyberattack hit its CMS and “no customer or advertiser information was disclosed” — Eight days. That’s how long FastCompany.com was offline after we were targeted in a cyberattack, first on the afternoon of Sunday …

October 6, 2022

CNN closes its “Vault by CNN” NFT project, launched in 2021 to “own a piece of history”, and plans to compensate purchasers with FLOW tokens or stablecoins (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

Richard Lawler / The Verge:
CNN closes its “Vault by CNN” NFT project, launched in 2021 to “own a piece of history”, and plans to compensate purchasers with FLOW tokens or stablecoins — You may have already forgotten about it, but Vault by CNN launched in the summer of 2021 as a marketplace for its own NFTs …

October 11, 2022

Filing: judge puts the Elon Musk v. Twitter trial on hold until October 28 to allow the parties to close their deal, otherwise a November trial date will be set (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Filing: judge puts the Elon Musk v. Twitter trial on hold until October 28 to allow the parties to close their deal, otherwise a November trial date will be set — The pending trial between Elon Musk and Twitter is suddenly on hold, as Judge Kathaleen McCormick granted the Musk side’s request for a stay …

October 6, 2022

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