Wed. 12/09 – FireEye Says It Got Hacked By A Nation State

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🗓️ 9 December 2020

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FireEye says it got hacked by a nation state. Microsoft’s cloud gaming is coming to iOS in the spring. Samsung’s unpacked event is coming in about a month, and we already got plenty of leaks about the phones we expect to see. Is Apple’s self-driving project still on track? And if you feel like you’ve been getting more spam calls this year, while rents in San Francisco have been plummeting, I’m here to tell you, neither of those trends seem to be imaginary. Sponsors: MasterWorks.io to skip the waitlist, promocode: RIDE Amazon.com/ridehome Links: U.S. Cyber Firm FireEye Says It Was Breached by Nation-State Hackers (WSJ) Microsoft confirms Xbox cloud gaming is coming to iOS in spring 2021 (9to5Mac) Google is opening Fuchsia OS development to the public (9to5Google) Here are the official Galaxy S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra teasers (Android Police) DoorDash skyrockets 80% in market debut, opening at $182 per share (CNBC) Apple Shifts Leadership of Self-Driving Car Unit to AI Chief (Bloomberg) The state of European tech 2020: 20 things you should know (Sifted) Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely (TechCrunch) Spam calls grew 18% this year despite the global pandemic (TechCrunch) San Francisco's 35% Plunge in Rents Shows Effects of Tech Fleeing City (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, December 9th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Fire Eye says it got hacked by a nation state.
0:12.0	Microsoft's Cloud Gaming is coming to Iowa. says it got hacked by a nation state.
0:13.0	Microsoft's cloud gaming is coming to iOS in the spring.
0:16.3	Samsung's unpacked event is coming in about a month and we've already got plenty of
0:20.0	leaks about the phones we expect to see.
0:22.4	Is Apple's self-driving
0:23.7	projects still on track and if you feel like you've been getting more spam calls
0:27.8	this year while maybe rents in San Francisco have been plummeting I'm here to
0:32.1	tell you neither of those trends seem to be
0:34.5	imaginary. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. If you're a
0:41.1	regular listener of this podcast then you should know the name Fire Eye.
0:46.0	They're the cybersecurity firm that it seems like I quote from half the time when there's a major
0:51.0	hack or security story in the world?
0:53.0	Well, Fire Eye is the security story today
0:56.0	because they say some of their internal systems were hacked
0:59.0	by nation state actors, compromising its red team tools, which Fireai uses to test the defenses of thousands
1:06.1	of customers quoting the Wall Street Journal.
1:09.2	Fire I declined to comment on who it believed was behind the breach of its hacking tools, which experts said
1:14.0	could potentially be leveraged in future attacks against its customer base, including
1:18.1	a diverse array of U.S. and Western national security agencies and businesses.
1:22.4	A person familiar with the matter said
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