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Onomondo secures cash to expand its wireless network for IoT devices

TechCrunch

Onomondo , a startup offering a dedicated wireless network for internet of things (IoT) devices, today announced that it raised $21 million in a funding round led by Verdane with participation from Maersk Growth, People Ventures, and The Danish Growth Fund. A network reserved for IoT devices isn’t a novel concept.

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How Reliable Is Cable Internet? Here’s How Our Networks Are Performing

CableLabs

Starting in mid-March, the world experienced a sudden surge in internet usage driven by the widespread COVID-19 stay-at-home orders that caused many of us to switch to working and studying at home in a matter of days. Cable broadband networks not only withstood this sudden surge in internet usage; they excelled. percent of U.S.

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Nord Security, the startup behind NordVPN, raises its first-ever funding, $100M at a $1.6B valuation

TechCrunch

VPN usage has surged in the last several years, with growing concerns over data privacy and security — and sometimes completely different motivations like people wanting to access content otherwise blocked in their regions — driving an estimated 30% of all internet consumers globally to use a VPN at some point this year.

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Identity Based Internet Protocol (IBIP): A network security innovation developed at The MITRE Corporation

CTOvision

Editor’s note: I’ve referenced before my participation on the board of Centripetal Networks , and their ability to deliver large scale commercial solutions of MITRE’s IBIP are an area I am particularly proud of. This means, for the first time, a means can be put in place to prevent covert tunnels in enterprise networks.

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Collabio lets you co-edit documents without the cloud

TechCrunch

Document collaborating will be possible from anywhere in the future, not only (as now) via a local network: A major release slated for next month will add p2p collaboration that works via the Internet — but still without the privacy risk of having a remote server in the loop. How will that forthcoming functionality work?

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How Wi-Fi router security has deteriorated since 2003

The Parallax

D-Link takes the issues of network security and user privacy very seriously.”. FBI’s router reboot call reminds us why to check for updates Your old router could be a hacking group’s APT pawn Why hackers love your Wi-Fi (and how to protect it) How to secure your home Wi-Fi Time for a Department of the Internet of Things?

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2021

TechCrunch

Dark Sky (2012-2021). Two-plus years after spinning off the X graduate, the company grounded the project aimed at bringing internet connectivity to underserved areas via balloon. Nuzzel (2012-2021). Image Credits: Dark Sky. In March of 2020, Apple acquired the Dark Sky weather app, which was popular for its hyperlocal focus.