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Italy Starts Seizing Large-Scale Fake E-Commerce Websites
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Italy Starts Seizing Large-Scale Fake E-Commerce Websites

[ad_1] The illicit network of more than 13,000 online fake shops, discovered by the Italian cybersecurity firm Yarix. Italian officials have this week begun seizing what could be one of the world's largest networks of online fake shops, which have defrauded would-be customers by appearing to offer discounted goods from luxury brands such as Giorgio Armani SpA and Prada SpA that never materialize.The illicit network of more than 13,000 online fake shops, discovered by the Italian cybersecurity firm Yarix, is allegedly managed by a group of Chinese cyber-criminals, as suggested by infrastructure code as well as the payment system's gateway, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named discussing confidential information. A spokesman for Yarix confirmed the co...
Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings
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Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings

[ad_1] The e-commerce firm is canceling all recurring meetings with more than two people and encouraging staffers to decline invitations and detach from big internal chat groups. Shopify Inc. spent last year cutting costs. Now, it's cutting meetings. As employees return from holiday break, the Canadian e-commerce firm said it's conducting a “calendar purge,” removing all recurring meetings with more than two people “in perpetuity,” while reupping a rule that no meetings at all can be held on Wednesdays. Big meetings of more than 50 people will get shoehorned into a six-hour window on Thursdays, with a limit of one a week. The company's leaders will also encourage workers to decline other meetings, and remove themselves from large internal chat groups. 'The best thing founders can...