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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

CIO

From 2012 through 2018, the SEC paid Company A approximately $10.7 Despite growing concerns, the SEC only terminated its relationship with the data center after the contract expired in 2018. The certification authenticity forms a smaller part of overall final decision-making, said Gupta. By then, the Commission had spent $10.7

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Top 10 Hackathon ideas 2018

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Without further ado, here are the best hacks of 2018 in no particular order. The Application further enables a user to securely sign transactions in decentralized environments; the Hyprsign SDK allows easy authentication to the Blockchain. Hackathon – International Women’s hackathon – 2018. Geography – India.

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Set your iPhone up as a Google 2FA key in 5 steps

The Parallax

Google has made it possible to use your iPhone as a two-factor authentication key, just as it did last year for Android phones. Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security to account log-ins. That form of 2FA, while certainly more secure than single-factor authentication, is susceptible to SIM card jacking.

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CVE-2024-55591: Fortinet Authentication Bypass Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

Fortinet patched a zero day authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy that has been actively exploited in the wild as a zero-day since November 2024. CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2024-55591 FortiOS and FortiProxy Authentication Bypass Vulnerability 9.6 websocket module. through 7.0.16 Upgrade to 7.0.17 through 7.0.19

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Cyabra gets $5.6M Series A to launch news disinformation detection analysis tools

TechCrunch

A Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup called Cyabra has built a SaaS platform that measures authenticity and impact within the online conversation, detects false information and its authors, and further analyzes it to connect the dots. . based Fabula AI in 2019, and Facebook, which bought UK’s Bloomsbury AI in 2018 to help fight fake news. . “We

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VCs, unicorn founders back Truora, a startup that helps LatAm businesses onboard users via WhatsApp

TechCrunch

T ruora , a Colombian user authentication startup, has raised $15 million in Series A funding co-led by two Silicon Valley-based venture firms. Founded in August 2018, Truora was originally focused on background checks for gigster platforms. It specializes in user authentication and onboarding, mainly through WhatsApp. .

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Corsha lands $12M to bring MFA security to machine-to-machine API traffic

TechCrunch

based cybersecurity startup, has secured a $12 million Series A investment to bring multi-factor authentication (MFA) to machine-to-machine API traffic. Typically, if an application or service wants to make an API call, it leverages a primary authentication factor like a PKI certificate or a JSON web token. Corsha, a Washington, D.C.-based