“The SolarWinds hack was and really is and continues to be one of the biggest espionage campaigns recently discovered,” said Thomas Rid, a professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Microsoft, Google and several U.S. government agencies were among those compromised by the intrusion.
Downloads of privacy-focused messaging apps Signal and Telegram got a boost as users looked for alternatives to Facebook-owned WhatsApp.
The surge comes after WhatsApp updated its terms of service agreement that appears to give users little choice to opt out of sharing data with parent company Facebook.
Signal claims to have “state-of-the-art end-to-end encryption” as part of its service, which prevents messages from being read by those who are not the intended recipient.
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin on Thursday completed the fourteenth test flight of its New Shepard rocket booster and capsule.
CNBC has learned that NS-14 also marked one of the last remaining steps before Blue Origin flies its first crew to space, with Thursday’s flight the first of two “stable configuration” tests.
Blue Origin aims to launch the second test flight within six weeks, or by late February, and the first crewed flight six weeks after that, or by early April, people familiar with the company’s plans told CNBC.
Shares of embattled electric vehicle start-up Nikola Corp. fell more than 8% during afterhours trading.
Nikola CEO Mark Russell failed to reassure investors of a deal being finalized with GM and that there wouldn’t be a selloff of its stock next week by founder and ex-chairman Trevor Milton.
There are roughly 360.9 million shares of company stock outstanding, making Milton Nikola’s largest single shareholder.
Hyperice, which makes muscle recovery equipment, has a new deal with the NFL.
Company CEO Jim Huether said the company should reach a $1 billion valuation in 2021 after the NFL partnership.
Hyperice secured a $48 million Series A funding in October, which Huether said values the firm at $700 million.
Electronic brokers were experiencing outages on Monday amid record highs in the Dow and S&P 500.
Charles Schwab said some clients are having difficulty logging in to their accounts and hold times are longer than usual.
Vanguard, TD Ameritrade and Fidelity also tweeted some clients were having technical problems.
The EU wants to ensure that competitors have a fair chance to succeed against the big firms.
Google has already voiced its concerns about the upcoming rules.
Apart from some lobbying, there is nothing the tech giants can do to stop the new rules in the short-term, Clifford Chance’s Vinje said.
American Airlines will move ahead with plans to furlough 19,000 workers on Thursday after talks for a national coronavirus aid package failed in Washington, but the airline is prepared to reverse course if a deal is reached, its CEO said.
Tesla shares slid 9% on Thursday, building on the stock’s recent losses.
With Thursday’s decline, the shares are more than 18% below Monday’s close, a day when the stock surged following its split.
On Tuesday Tesla said it would raise up to $5 billion through a new stock offering, and on Wednesday the company’s largest outside shareholder said it reduced its position due to portfolio restrictions.
NASA has released images of Hurricane Laura in the south and of the California wildfires, which bring the scope of the weather events into focus.
And both are connected to climate change, according to Paul Ullrich, associate professor of regional and global climate modeling at the University of California Davis.
