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Triaging modern medicine’s cybersecurity issues

The Parallax

Hackers often talk about practicing good “cybersecurity hygiene” : making sure that basic standards, such as using unique passwords for each log-in, are met. This breadth of information can be much more valuable on the black market—sometimes up to $30 per record—than the typical consumer financial profile , which sells for $10 to $12.

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

CIO

Deepak Jain, CEO of a Maryland-based IT services firm, has been indicted for fraud and making false statements after allegedly falsifying a Tier 4 data center certification to secure a $10.7 million contract with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). From 2012 through 2018, the SEC paid Company A approximately $10.7

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Legendary hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek talk cybersecurity and autonomous vehicles at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

Security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek shook the automotive industry in 2015 by remotely hacking a Jeep Cherokee driven by Wired reporter , and willing participant, Andy Greenberg. Perhaps it’s not surprising then that automotive cyberattacks have grown in frequency — up more than 225% in 2021 , compared to 2018.

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Startup Funding Regained Its Footing In 2024 As AI Became The Star Of The Show

Crunchbase News

Global venture investment in 2024 was above the pre-pandemic year of 2019, but below 2018 and 2020 amounts at $346 billion and $350 billion, respectively. Infrastructure and data provisioning to manage and operate AI grew. Of those AI dollars, almost a third of all AI funding went to foundation model companies.

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Avalor wants to unify cybersecurity tools by aggregating data

TechCrunch

Security has a data problem. That’s according to Kfir Tishbi, who led the engineering team at Datorama, a marketing analytics company that was acquired by Salesforce in 2018. A more direct competitor is Dig Security, which builds tools to address outstanding observability issues in security.

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Nigerian mobility-tech startup MAX bags $31 million in Series B round, set to expand across Africa, build EV infrastructure

TechCrunch

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. (

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Nigeria’s ThankUCash secures $5.3M to build infrastructure for cashback, deals and BNPL services

TechCrunch

Yet, ThankUCash , a platform launched in 2018 by Connected Analytics , has managed to thrive, proving that not all is gloom in the deals, coupon and rewards business. Having matured as a business, Ononobi and his team want to take on a more complicated task: building infrastructure for companies that want to offer akin services. “We