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@ D.C.
🇨🇳 The White House held a meeting Friday with telecommunications companies to discuss the ongoing threat of Chinese government hackers breaching their networks to spy on Americans. (New York Times)
🏛️ The Trump transition team has approached Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia for a potential role in the White House. (Politico Pro)
🇷🇺 Microsoft is encouraging President-elect Trump to "push harder" against Russia and China. (Financial Times)
@ Industry
💰 New York state fined Geico and Travelers Indemnity a combined $11.3 million for lapses in their cybersecurity programs that allowed hackers to steal information on 120,000 people. (Wall Street Journal)
💸 The operator of the RSA Conference will start investing $50 million in finalists of the Innovation Sandbox contest. (The Record)
👵🏻 British phone company O2 has developed an AI-generated granny chatbot designed to talk with scammers and waste their time. (New York Times)
@ Hackers and hacks
🛒 A "cybersecurity issue" has left many Stop & Shop grocery stores across the East Coast with empty shelves leading up to Thanksgiving. (NBC News)
🚪 Salt Typhoon is believed to be exploiting a new GhostSpider backdoor recently discovered by cyber firm Trend Micro. (BleepingComputer)
👀 Kim Dotcom, who is fighting deportation from New Zealand to the United States for charges tied to his file-sharing website Megaupload, said he's suffered a serious stroke. (Associated Press)
