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Incident Of The Week: Chinese Hackers Accused Of Freelancing For The Chinese Gov…
Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi, Chinese nationals who met in a Chengu, China engineering school, were indicted by the Department of Justice on Tuesday, July 21. Their crime? Stealing several terabytes of i…
Incident Of The Week: The Infamous Twitter Attack And What Enterprises Can Learn…
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Incident Of The Week: Alabama Hit By 2nd Ransomware Attack In As Many Months
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Incident Of The Week: Maze Ransomware Targets Conduent And Aerospace Entity In U…
The IT services enterprise, Conduent, which provides HR and payment infrastructure to “a majority of Fortune 100 companies and over 500 governments,” was hit by a Maze ransomware attack on May 29, 202…
Incident Of The Week: BofA And SBA Struggle With Security Amidst Economic Relief…
Bank of America is making headlines with the recent announcement of a security incident on affecting an undisclosed number of PPP loan applicants on April 22nd.
Nearly 100 Apple Stores in the US will reopen this week, but most won’t let you inside
Almost 100 more Apple Stores are reopening in the US this week, but in most locations, they still won’t let you walk inside: instead, they’re offering curbside or storefront service only.
Apple Stores began reopening in early May with a four-state rollout, which expanded to 11 states later in the month. The next wave of openings will enlarge that list to 28 states, with the majority of locations located in Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, and Texas, according to 9to5Mac.
It’s not totally clear why some locations are permitting in-store service while others aren’t, but it likely depends on local laws in various state, which have had different approaches to reopening public spaces as the coronavirus outbreak continues. Most of the Apple Stores reopening this week are restricted to curbside and storefront service only, but those that allow in-store service are almost all located in California, Florida, and Texas.
It’s also not clear when locations that only offer storefront and curbside service will open further to allow customers inside, but in the meantime, they’ll still permit order pick-ups (say, if you order an iPhone 11 for in-store pickup) and Genius Bar appointments so long as folks engage in state-required protective measures, like wearing masks and/or submitting to temperature checks.
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Apple Store reopenings: a different case in different countries
Following the course of the coronavirus outbreak, Apple Stores in China closed in February and began reopening in March right as the company confirmed that US stores would be closed ‘until further notice.’
While that seemed indefinite, a leaked internal memo revealed Apple had set a target of early May for reopening US stores, and has followed that projected window. Given the company has safely reopened Apple Stores across countries recovering from the Covid-19 outbreak, we’ll likely see more US locations turn their lights back on in the coming weeks.
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Incident Of The Week: Educational Infrastructures At Risk Of Invasive Breaches
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Incident of the Week: Impact Mobile Home Communities Breached
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Incident of the Week: Nintendo Investigating 160,000 Account Breaches
The Japanese video game company has since readdressed weak points in its security. Rumors of a breach circulated throughout the month as users noticed unusual account behavior. Players reported that f…