Yahoo Revises Massive Data Breach Impact from 1B to 3B Users

From eWeek: On Oct. 3, Yahoo now part of Verizon's Oath business unit, publicly disclosed that all of its users were impacted by a data breach in August 2013. Oath estimates that information on three billion users was stolen by attackers in the breach.

The three billion figure for the data beach is...

Couple Pleads Guilty to Stealing $1.2M From Amazon

From PC Mag: Erin Joseph Finan and Leah Jeanette Finan from Muncie, Indiana, have proved it is possible to steal over a million dollars worth of goods from an online retailer. But we are also about to see the consequences of carrying out such a huge fraud and getting caught.

As the BBC reports, the...

Equifax ex-CEO blames breach on one person and a bad scanner

From CNET: Equifax's former CEO is blaming many of the company's mistakes on a single person, and it's not himself.

Richard Smith, who was Equifax's CEO for 12 years before stepping down on Sept. 26, faced questions from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Tuesday, as Congress members...

AMD Announces Polaris-based Embedded Radeon E9170

From : Today AMD is announcing the Polaris-based Radeon E9170 series, the latest entrant to their embedded graphics offerings. Sporting Radeon-class hardware and long-term support, these embedded products look to markets such as digital signage, casino games, medical imaging, and thin clients, as...

Instagram adds polling stickers to Stories

From The Verge: Instagram is making its Stories a little more interactive with a new polling feature that users can add with a “poll” sticker.

Adding polls is similar to any other sticker on Instagram: just drag and drop it onto your image in your story, and you’ll automatically be presented with...

NAND Market Expected to Regain Balance in 2018

From EETimes: The NAND flash market is expected to move into better equilibrium in 2018 as the production of NAND ramps up to meet demand, according to DRAMeXchange, a market research firm that tracks memory chip price.

Demand has exceeded supply in NAND for sixth consecutive quarters since the...

Google ends search-result punishment for news behind paywalls

From CNET: News search results for sites with paid subscriptions will no longer be demoted in Google search, Bloomberg reported Sunday. It's part of a Google move to offer better search and ad solutions for news sites with paywalls.

The biggest change is that Google is dropping its "first click...

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