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HackerOne buys YC-backed PullRequest to add code review to bug-squashing platform

TechCrunch

PullRequest , a five year old startup that came out of Y Combinator in 2017 , helps software developers by providing an external code review team. This not only helps find bugs in code that might have been missed, it also helps identify security vulnerabilities before the software hits production.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Crusoe Energy, Insider And Biotech Raise Big

Crunchbase News

startups raised half a billion dollars apiece, and another eight raised $100 million or more, with industries from cybersecurity to biotech to AI represented. Founded in 2018, the company has raised $1.2 Founded in 2018, the company has raised $654 million, per Crunchbase. billion valuation in the process.

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of February: Saronic And NinjaOne Lead Big Month

Crunchbase News

In fact, it took $200 million or more to make the list last month, as defense tech and cybersecurity led the way. NinjaOne , $500M, cybersecurity: NinjaOne, which provides endpoint management, security and monitoring, raised $500 million in Series C extensions at a $5 billion valuation more than doubling its value from just 12 months ago.

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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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AI & the enterprise: protect your data, protect your enterprise value

CIO

In 2018, I wrote an article asking, “Will your company be valued by its price-to-data ratio?” The premise was that enterprises needed to secure their critical data more stringently in the wake of data hacks and emerging AI processes. The company later estimated losses of $100 million due to the attack.

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Cybersecurity startup Guardio, now with 1M users of its browser extension, raises its first funding: $47M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

Some say that antivirus software that you install on your PC may have run its course when it comes to the next generation of computing in the cloud. “The protection layers that have been there for a few decades, such as antivirus, didn’t quite adapt so there was a gap in the security landscape. We believe in positive friction.”

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Slowly but surely, browsers are becoming more secure

The Parallax

—Your favorite Web browser is inching toward a more secure future, according to new research revealed at the cybersecurity conference ShmooCon here on Sunday. Apple’s Safari suffered setbacks during testing, based mostly on code introduced in the troubled OS X High Sierra , the report says.