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Australia's consumer watchdog is taking Amazon to court, alleging the company locked subscribers into unfair contract terms. The suit targets clauses that allegedly let Amazon change or cancel services unilaterally while holding customers to their commitments — a tension regulators across multiple countries are increasingly unwilling to let slide.
Meanwhile, a security toolkit called EvilTokens is drawing fresh alarm from Cisco Talos researchers, who say the device-code phishing kit is considerably more dangerous than previously understood. It can bypass multi-factor authentication entirely, silently logging in as a victim to Microsoft three sixty five applications. The revelation is a reminder that MFA, while valuable, is not a ceiling — it's a floor.
And on the market side, the Italian software company Bending Spoons made a striking debut on the Nasdaq, surging roughly forty percent. The company, which owns both AOL and Eventbrite among other properties, has built a quiet empire by acquiring aging digital brands and squeezing out efficiency. Whether that playbook scales as a public company is the question investors will be watching closely.
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