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IBM Hong Kong calls Cringely report of 100,000 layoffs ‘ludicrous;’ Cringely fires back

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Longtime technology pundit Robert Cringely on Jan. 22 reported that IBM this week will launch a massive corporate reorganization code-named Project Chrome that will result in 26% of its employees – more than 100,000 people — losing their jobs.

If this is true, they have yet to receive the memo at IBM Hong Kong, which this morning issued a press release via the agency Ketchum Hong Kong that while not naming Cringely called the author of the layoff rumor “an industry gadfly” and his reporting both “stupid” and “ludicrous.” I have contacted IBM corporate media relations here in the U.S. to see if it concurs with its Hong Kong colleagues and to make sure this un-IBM-like language was authorized. (The Wall Street Journal also cites an anonymous IBM source refuting the report.)

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Data breach report: 9 attack patterns describe 92% of 100,000 security incidents

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There are some big changes to Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) (pdf), including a deep dive into two different datasets that came from 50 different sources and 95 countries. One set of data looks back at 1,367 confirmed data breaches and 63,437 security incidents from 2013. Another looks back over a decade of data covering about 3,800 data breaches and 100,000 security incidents….
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The Instagram Scam That Tricked 100000 Users Into Giving Away Passwords – Mashable

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Times of India

The Instagram Scam That Tricked 100000 Users Into Giving Away Passwords
Mashable
The app asked users to share their usernames and passwords after downloading, turning them into willing participants of a giant social botnet. … The Android app was created on June 9, while its corresponding iOS app was released on Sept. 19, per app …
Instagram's 'scam app' tricked 100000 users into giving away passwordsDaily News & Analysis
100000 Instagram users lured into sharing their usernames and passwords-ReportTelecomTiger

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Battling against zero-day exploit black market, Microsoft expands $100,000 bug bounty

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In the current zero-day exploit market, it’s common to pay out six-figures for a single exploit and now Microsoft has thrown open the door and invited more security-minded individuals to compete for the $ 100,000 prize.
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