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

CIO

Deepak Jain, 49, of Potomac, was the CEO of an information technology services company (referred to in the indictment as Company A) that provided data center services to customers, including the SEC,” the US DOJ said in a statement. From 2012 through 2018, the SEC paid Company A approximately $10.7 million on the contract​.

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Vyrill, winner of the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off, helps brands discover and leverage user-generated video reviews

TechCrunch

Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. The judges were impressed with Vyrill’s novel approach and innovative technology around discovering and filtering relevant videos. million pre-seed round in 2018. This is a struggle for companies of every size.

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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

The Parallax

If you want to channel those feelings into getting safer in 2018, follow these seven steps, garnered from how-tos we’ve published this year, to better secure your digital life. Step 1: Use two-factor authentication. Set up your phone with a passcode or other security measure, use two-factor authentication (there it is again!),

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Data security and privacy: The foundation of customer trust

CIO

These leaks happen due to weaknesses in technical, human, and organizational factors, and often originate in the contact center which serves as the hub of customer data. A fraudster beats out Knowledge-based Authentication (KBA) to illegally obtain access to a customer’s account. Malicious outside criminals (a.k.a.

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Nigerian startup Taeillo raises funding to scale its online furniture e-commerce platform

TechCrunch

Founded in 2018 by Jumoke Dada , the online furniture seller sources raw materials from local suppliers and manufactures furniture pieces from sofas and beds to chairs and tables, which it sells to individual customers and businesses. When Dada launched the platform, its target audience was solely businesses.

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BoxGroup closes on $255M across two funds to back startups at their earliest stages

TechCrunch

BoxGroup has quietly, yet diligently, been funding companies at the early stage for over a decade. BoxGroup Five is the firm’s fifth early stage fund, and is aimed at investing in emerging tech companies at the pre-seed and seed stages. Each fund amounts to $127.5 We want to be the second or third biggest check in a round,” Tisch said.

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There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security

Coding Horror

pic.twitter.com/phONMKHBle — Mustafa Al-Bassam (@musalbas) September 9, 2018. Work emails were protected by two-factor authentication, a technique that uses a second passcode to keep accounts secure. Nobody is doing better work in this space right now than Maciej Ceglowski and Tech Solidarity. Quick phishing demo.