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July 21, 2020Walmart’s decision to close on Thanksgiving, give bonuses will pay off and catch on, expert saysJames Otteson, professor of business ethics at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, believes Walmart’s decision will pay off and that other companies will follow its lead.
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July 20, 2020Chevron to buy Noble Energy for $5BFinance professor Gianna Bern commented in a CFO piece about the wave of acquisitions in the oil industry due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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July 20, 2020Stirring in the Oil Patch, Chevron Buys Noble for $5 BillionFinance professor Gianna Bern was quoted by over a dozen news outlets including AP and New York Times about the recent wave of oil company mergers and acquisitions prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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July 20, 2020Top accounts on Twitter hackedMike Chapple joins Tommy Tucker on WWL Radio to talk about the Twitter hack from last week. What does it mean for Twitter and Bitcoin?
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July 20, 2020Faculty experts and media relations move at the speed of newsMendoza Information Technologies Teaching Professor Mike Chapple rode a wave of national and international news media queries Friday, July 17, from reporters seeking his expertise for two breaking stories: a Bitcoin scam targeting major Twitter accounts; and Russian cyber spy attacks on coronavirus vaccine research groups in the U.S., U.K. and Canada.
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July 16, 2020Bitcoin scam shows Twitter needs better internal controls, expert saysCybersecurity and privacy expert Mike Chapple, teaching professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, weighs in on the Twitter security breach which saw hackers hijack prominent Twitter accounts to attempt to steal bitcoin.
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July 16, 2020Expert points out striking details in Russian cyber spies’ attacks on coronavirus research groupsCybersecurity and privacy expert Mike Chapple, teaching professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, said "Cozy Bear” is a well-known cybersecurity threat that has been actively attacking targets of the Russian government for at least six years.
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July 16, 2020UK, US, Canada accuse Russia of hacking virus vaccine trialsMike Chapple, a cybersecurity expert and professor of IT, Analytics and Operations at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, said the Russian hackers realized that knowledge is power when it comes to COVID-19 during an interview with AP that was picked up by 10+ other news outlets.
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July 15, 2020Twitter says it was the victim of a ‘coordinated social engineering attack’Mike Chapple, an information technology professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, said in an NPR piece, "The way that cryptocurrency works, once a transfer takes place, it is irreversible and virtually untraceable," Chapple said. "The real question here is how the attackers gained access to these prominent Twitter accounts in the first place." Chapple, a former computer scientist with the National Security Agency, said one line of investigation that Twitter and law enforcement may pursue is whether the hack occurred at a third-party service that had access to all of the accounts.
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July 15, 2020This Midwestern B-school’s popularity is through the roofTim Bohling, chief marketing and graduate enrollment officer at Mendoza College of Business, comments on the rise in apps the MBA program at Mendoza has experienced in a piece by Poets & Quants.
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