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• HiQ v LinkedIn court ruling will have a material effect on privacy

  A U.S. appeals court has ruled that hiQ's scraping of public LinkedIn data is not a violation of the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

• Top cyber crime gangs use targeted fake job offers to deploy stealthy backdoor

  The Golden Chickens cyber criminal gang is believed to sell its more_eggs backdoor for campaigns executed using information from LinkedIn profiles.

• Google warns of North Korean hackers using ‘novel social engineering method’

  Google’s Threat Analysis Group has flagged an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers, alleging that a government-backed entity based in North Korea is using social media to send malware.

• Templafy kicks off APAC expansion with Sydney office

  Denmark-based document creation automation SaaS vendor Templafy has expanded into the Asia Pacific region with the opening of a Sydney office.

• Adobe and Microsoft take on Salesforce's marketing software, with LinkedIn as a weapon

  Adobe and Microsoft are partnering to bolster each other's sales and marketing software capabilities, taking aim at common rival Salesforce.com.

• Computers could write full, and wrong, news stories

  Technology that can generate realistic news stories from little more than a headline suggestion is poised to advance rapidly in the coming years.

• Microsoft takes aim at AWS with $7.5B GitHub buy

  Microsoft has unveiled plans to acquire software development platform, GitHub, in a US$7.5 billion deal designed to create a competitive edge in the cloud.

• How the Cambridge Analytica scandal could hit the world’s biggest tech players

  Big internet companies and small software developers could come under increased scrutiny in the wake of the scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.