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Upsie’s direct-to-consumer swing at the warranty space nets $18.2M

TechCrunch

The firm also viewed Bethea as a “very special entrepreneur” who “exudes authenticity,” which must be refreshing to VCs who get inundated with pitches. “We True Ventures was initially attracted to the sheer size of the warranty industry (estimated at $100 billion globally) and “how broken it was from the consumer experience perspective.”

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Microsoft’s November 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 87 CVEs (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039)

Tenable

Successful exploitation would lead to the unauthorized disclosure of a user’s NTLMv2 hash, which an attacker could then use to authenticate to the system as the user. Microsoft patched 87 CVEs in its November 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with four rated critical, 82 rated important and one rated moderate. It was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 9.8

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There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security

Coding Horror

On successful phish leads to an even wider address book attack net down the line. Work emails were protected by two-factor authentication, a technique that uses a second passcode to keep accounts secure. 1) Enable Two Factor authentication through an app, and not SMS , everywhere you can. If it's SMS, it's not secure, period.

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7 Reasons Collaboration Breaks Down

Let's Grow Leaders

Go slower and cast a wider net when looking for potential partners. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Communication Energy & Engagement collaboration conflict team building teamwork true collaboration' If one or the other of you is less of a zealot, sooner or later the spark will fade.

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Identitypass, an identity verification API for Africa, raises $2.8M seed funding

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We wanted to build a substitute for authentication. “Today, we have basic authentication using OTPs or a four-pin password, but by starting Identitypass, we wanted to introduce more authentication options into the market.” YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria.

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Microsoft’s March 2025 Patch Tuesday Addresses 56 CVEs (CVE-2025-26633, CVE-2025-24983, CVE-2025-24993)

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A local, authenticated attacker would need to win a race condition in order to exploit CVE-2025-24983. 6 Critical 50 Important 0 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 56 CVEs, including seven zero-day flaws, with six of those being exploited in the wild. CVE-2025-24044 and CVE-2025-24983 were assigned CVSSv3 scores of 7.8

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Culinary marketplace Shef whips up nationwide expansion with new funding, growth ingredients

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Shef works with local cooks making authentic, homemade dishes and provides them with business tools, like menu formation and pricing, photography, how to create their bios and how to market and promote themselves. He declined to go into more specifics as to the company’s growth. “We

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