DawentsIT: All Things Technology news you need to know this Monday-
1.Scammers set up fake websites posing as COVID-19 treatments. The sites purported to be created by the healthcare companies Moderna and Regeneron in order to trick people into handing over their personal information.
2.A Zoom engineer was accused of censorship. The DOJ alleged in a complaint that Xinjiang Jin, Zoom’s primary liaison with Chinese law enforcement, terminated calls held by users commemorating Beijing’s 1989 crackdown on student protesters in Tiananmen Square.
3.Security experts are freaking out about the SolarWinds attack. They say the most alarming aspect is that officials are nowhere close to gauging the hack’s full scope, who else may have been compromised, and what the attackers could have obtained.
4.We looked at the life of Scott Borgerson, the entrepreneur married to Ghislaine Maxwell. He secretly married Maxwell in 2016, at which point his professional network expanded to include big-name investors like Google’s Eric Schmidt and the billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Tudor Jones.
5.Russian trolls used Cameo to lobby for the release of a suspected spy. The Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm, used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Cameo in a coordinated effort to get the suspected spy Maxim Shugaley released from a Libyan prison.
6.Facebook removed anti-vaccine content in Israel. The content posted on four Hebrew-language groups included photos, videos, and text posts, per the report. It said vaccines included microscopic tracking chips.
7.Apple put a supplier on notice. The firm won’t give Wistron new business after workers at a plant in India caused rioted over reduced or unpaid salary.
8.Facebook rejected about 3.3 million election ads. The rejected ad count was disclosed in a 22-page document reportedly sent to officials close to President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden.
9.Robinhood rival eToro added 5 million users. Amateur investors have piled into stock-trading apps in 2020 thanks to a combination of working from home and lower global interest rates.
10.AOC slammed Amazon over food stamps. In nine states, more than 4,000 Amazon employees are on food stamps, according to Bloomberg News.
