Mary Ann Azevedo Contributor Mary Ann Azevedo covers startups and tech at Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor Two Austin-based VC firms are each raising $100M funds Investor momentum builds for construction tech After SoftBank announced its plans to launch a $5 billion innovation fund in Latin America, we reached out to the good folks
Spring Break 2019 is in full swing, which means high school and college kids have hit the road determined to make this rite of passage epic. Unfortunately, not everyone will return home with his or her online reputation intact. Despite the headlines and warnings, kids are still uploading their lives 24/7 and not all of
Researchers at Pen Test Partners revealed in a proof of concept (PoC) that they were able to exploit vulnerabilities in two high-end “smart” alarms. In their PoC, the pen testers debunked third-party car alarm vendors’ claim to be the solution to key relay attacks on keyless-entry cars. “We have shown that fitting these alarms can make
Beatrice Fihn Contributor “Atomic bombs are primarily a means for the ruthless annihilation of cities.” Those are the words of Leo Szilard, one of the scientists who pushed for the development of nuclear weapons. He wrote them as part of a petition signed by dozens of other scientists who had worked on the Manhattan Project
by Paul Ducklin We’ve written many times about ';--have i been pwned? (HIBP), a website run by security researcher Troy Hunt where you can check how many times your email address has shown up in data breaches. Amazingly, the number of breached accounts that Troy has processed into his database over the years is just
A bright tomorrow of technical delight, or a dismal future of digital dysfunction? If I had to sum up the 2019 RSA Security Conference in three key words they would be: trust, cybercrime, and victims. Let’s start with trust. Here’s how the opening keynote of the conference was reported: “To avoid a potentially cataclysmic future
Y Combinator revealed yesterday that its president, Sam Altman, is stepping down from his role to become the accelerator program’s chairman. This change, said YC, will allow Altman to “spend more time focusing on OpenAI,” the San Francisco-based nonprofit that was cofounded by Altman and Elon Musk three years ago to get ahead of the
It’s no secret that technological advancements and online threats are directly proportional to each other. So now more than ever, it’s imperative that users prioritize the security of their digital presence, especially in the face of advanced malware attacks and massive data leaks. Speaking of the latter — less than two months after the Collection
Russia has proposed legislation that would ban the spread of fake news, as well as the use of the internet to disrespect government officials and state symbols. The law appears to be similar to one enforced in Nigeria, where a journalist has been charged with cybercrimes for speaking out against the government, according to the
One answer: E-commerce, Chrome extensions, mobile apps, enterprise SaaS, SMB SaaS — in that order Julian Shapiro 8 hours Julian Shapiro Contributor Julian Shapiro is the founder of BellCurve.com, a growth marketing agency that trains you to become a marketing professional. He also writes at Julian.com. More posts by this contributor Founder Stories: Webflow’s Y
by Paul Ducklin Today is International Women’s Day 2019. In the leadup, a bunch of people – friends, family, colleagues and you, our readers – asked us whom we’d count amongst our female technoheroes, so we thought we’d tell you. We know what you’re thinking, which is probably along the lines of, “They’re bound to mention Rear
The vulnerabilities, which resided in associated smartphone apps, were both easy to find and easy to fix Two smart alarm systems for cars have plugged critical security holes that put three million vehicles globally at risk of being hijacked, research by Pen Test Partners reveals. If exploited, the vulnerabilities would have enabled anyone to turn
U.S. smart speaker owners grew 40 percent over 2018 to now reach 66.4 million – or 26.2 percent of the U.S. adult population – according to a new report from Voicebot.ai and Voicify released this week, which detailed adoption patterns and device market share. The report also reconfirmed Amazon Echo’s lead, noting the Alexa-powered smart
Cybersecurity researcher at Google’s Project Zero division has publicly disclosed details and proof-of-concept exploit of a high-severity security vulnerability in macOS operating system after Apple failed to release a patch within 90 days of being notified. Discovered by Project Zero researcher Jann Horn and demonstrated by Ian Beer, the vulnerability resides in the way macOS
It’s that time of year again – tax season! Whether you’ve already filed in the hopes of an early refund or have yet to start the process, one thing is for sure: cybercriminals will certainly use tax season as a means to get victims to give up their personal and financial information. This time of
SAN FRANCISCO — Nation-state threats are becoming so prevalent that incident response vendors are finding signs of actors from multiple countries lurking in the same victim’s network. Three of the industry’s largest incident response vendors — IBM X-Force, FireEye and CrowdStrike — shared troubling developments about nation-state threats during a panel discussion at RSA
Speaking at RSA Conference 2019, Black Hills Information Security owner John Strand discussed threat hunting and how this can be done on a small budget. He admitted that identifying command and control (C&C) traffic is “very difficult” as we have got to the stage where malware can be stealthy and uses C&C to hide, and
Leica is a brand I respect and appreciate but don’t support. Or rather, can’t, because I’m not fabulously rich. But if I did have $5,000 to spend on a fixed-lens camera, I’d probably get the new Q2, a significant improvement over 2015’s Q — which tempted me back then. The Q2 keeps much of what
by Lisa Vaas A 13-year-old Japanese schoolgirl was brought in, questioned, and charged with posting the code for an unclosable browser popup on an internet billboard, the Japanese news agency NHK reported on Monday. According to ZDNet, you could close the popup in some desktop browsers, including Edge and Firefox, but you couldn’t close it
Users should waste no time in updating to the browser’s latest version Google has revealed that the update for Google Chrome, rolled out late last week, addressed a security hole that attackers were already exploiting in the wild. “Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2019-5786 exists in the wild,” the company noted
French cloud hosting company Scaleway is rolling out new instances with an Nvidia Tesla P100 GPU. The company is opting for simple pricing with a single configuration that costs €1 per hour ($1.13). Many companies now use GPU instances to train models for their machine learning-powered app or service. Some companies also leverage these cloud
You must update your Google Chrome immediately to the latest version of the web browsing application. Security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered and reported a high severity vulnerability in Chrome late last month that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and take full control of the computers. The vulnerability,
Do you live in a “smart” home? If you look around and see interactive speakers, IP cameras, and other internet-connected devices like thermostats and appliances, you are now one of the millions of people who live with so-called “smart” devices. They bring convenience and comfort into our lives, but they also bring greater risks, by
A computer security incident response team, or CSIRT, receives reports of computer security problems at an organization, analyzes them, creates an initial response strategy and then works with the organization to follow response strategy protocols. There are a number of reasons to create a CSIRT. Some of the most common include the following: The goals
Speaking at RSA Conference 2019 on ‘Defining a cyber-risk appetite that works,’ Jack Jones, chairman of the FAIR Institute, discussed the need to create a risk appetite, and how to identify what you need a risk appetite for. He said that having a risk appetite “depends on your situation” and this is not a static
Taxify, the ride-hailing company from Estonia backed by Didi and Daimler and now active in 30 countries, is making a key shift in its business today as it gears up for its next stage of growth. The company is removing “taxi” from its name and rebranding as Bolt, the same name that it has been
by Paul Ducklin Chrome users, make sure you’ve got the very latest version. Or, as Justin Schuh, one of Chrome’s well-known security researchers, put it: [L]ike, seriously, update your Chrome installs… like right this minute. We’re not big Chrome fans – we’ve always thought that Firefox is better in both form and function, to be
Some tips that businesses can do to get better at it without breaking the bank Here at RSA Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) are squarely faced with the daunting task of securing the explosion of IoT devices, now ever-present in the business environment. In the past, IoT in a business setting could largely be ignored,
Homeland Security could do more to protect election infrastructure ahead, according to a new report by the department’s watchdog. The report from the inspector general, out Wednesday, said progress had been made but Homeland Security, the department charged with protecting elections and the back-end voting machine infrastructure, still “does not have dedicated staff” focused on
The United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) today finally released GHIDRA version 9.0 for free, the agency’s home-grown classified software reverse engineering tool that agency experts have been using internally for over a decade to hunt down security bugs in software and applications. GHIDRA is a Java-based reverse engineering framework that features a graphical user
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