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13164005455?profile=RESIZE_400xThe US Department of Justice is reportedly seeking to force Google to sell Chrome, according to Bloomberg.  Prying the browser from the rest of the company is only one of the measures the DOJ will ask the courts to enforce, following a ruling that the company maintained an illegal search monopoly.   While ripping Chrome from Google might seem a relatively simple measure, there are a huge number of complicating factors that make it a trickier operation than it might first appear, factors that cou

12633671284?profile=RESIZE_400xLive Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, revealed Friday evening that it was the victim of a cyber-attack that compromised user data.  The company said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it discovered an "unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database," on May 20 and promptly launched an investigation.

A week later, "a criminal threat actor offered Live Nation what it alleged was user data for sale via the dark web, according to the filing.  "As