Compared to the often-discounted iPad, significant markdowns on the 2019 iPad Air have been relatively rare. The base model, which retailed for $499, dipped occasionally to $470 -- but it's been many months since it last touched its all-time low price of $400. … [Read more...] about Preorder the 2020 iPad and iPad Air: Here’s how to get Apple’s new tablets
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Amazon tries to delay warehouse union vote in Alabama
In a filing on January 21st, Amazon said if the acting regional director had looked at more recent COVID-19 data, she would have seen the county infection rate was decreasing. “If a manual election is improper here, it is hard to imagine any circumstances in which a Regional Director would allow manual elections until COVID-19 is eradicated,” the company wrote. … [Read more...] about Amazon tries to delay warehouse union vote in Alabama
SolarWinds hack officially blamed on Russia: What you need to know
US intelligence agencies attributed a sophisticated malware campaign to Russia in a joint statement Tuesday, several weeks after public reports of the hack that has affected local, state and federal agencies in the US in addition to private companies including Microsoft. The massive breach, which reportedly compromised an email system used by senior leadership at the Treasury Department and systems at several other federal agencies, started in March 2020 when hackers compromised IT management software from SolarWinds. … [Read more...] about SolarWinds hack officially blamed on Russia: What you need to know
After big hack of US government, Biden enlists ‘world class’ cybersecurity team
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO : President Joe Biden is hiring a group of national security veterans with deep cyber expertise, drawing praise from former defense officials and investigators as the US government works to recover from one of the biggest hacks of its agencies attributed to Russian spies. "It is great to see the priority that the new administration is giving to cyber," said Suzanne Spaulding, director of the Defending Democratic Institutions project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Cybersecurity was demoted as a policy field under the Trump administration. It discontinued the Cybersecurity Coordinator position at the White House, shrunk the State Department's cyber diplomacy wing, and fired federal cybersecurity leader Chris Krebs in the aftermath of Donald Trump's Nov. 3 election defeat. Disclosed in December, the hack struck eight federal agencies and numerous companies, including software provider SolarWinds Corp. US intelligence agencies publicly … [Read more...] about After big hack of US government, Biden enlists ‘world class’ cybersecurity team
US Defense Intelligence Agency admits to buying citizens’ location data
An intelligence agency has just confirmed that the US government does indeed buy location data collected by its citizens’ smartphones. In a memo sent to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and obtained by The New York Times, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) admitted that it buys location data from brokers — and that the data isn’t separated by whether a person lives in the US or outside of it. … [Read more...] about US Defense Intelligence Agency admits to buying citizens’ location data
