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Daily Crunch: Citizen Lab claims Apple’s ‘Lockdown Mode’ helped block spyware attack by hacker group NSO

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In Apple’s case, researchers looking into spyware vulnerabilities said its “Lockdown Mode” was able to thwart the advances of the infamous mercenary hacking provider NSO Group. One tool to rule them all : Avalor wants to unify cybersecurity tools by aggregating data, Kyle reports. Lorenzo has more.

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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

TechCrunch

Journalists and activists are increasingly targeted by the wealthy and resourceful who seek to keep the truth hidden, from nation-state aligned hackers hacking into journalist’s inboxes to governments deploying mobile spyware to snoop on their most vocal critics. Runa Sandvik, founder of Granitt. Image: (supplied).

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How to Build a Mobile-First Security Strategy

Ivanti

Not surprisingly, this has created an escalating vulnerability gap: more mobile devices means more mobile threats — and more blind spots as IT and security teams scramble to identify all those devices as they connect to their networks.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Schools Suffer Heavy Downtime Losses Due To Ransomware, as Banks Grapple with AI Challenges

Tenable

And get the latest on AI-system inventories, the APT29 nation-state attacker and digital identity security! For more information about cybersecurity threats to educational institutions: “ Cybersecurity Preparedness for K-12 Schools and Institutions of Higher Education ” (U.S.

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Disrupt kicks off tomorrow — check out the highlights

TechCrunch

Brett Callow, threat analyst at Emsisoft, and Katie Moussouris, founder and CEO at Luta Security. Surveillance in Startup Land: Join us for a crash course in the surveillance state — from spyware makers to location data brokers. Find out what the changing cybersecurity threat and legal landscape means for today’s data-hungry startups.

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The State of Security in 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In August 2024, we asked our customers to tell us about security: their role in security, their certifications, their concerns, and what their companies are doing to address those concerns. We had 1,322 complete responses, of which 419 (32%—roughly one-third) are members of a security team. are managers, 7.2% That gives us 27.9%

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Daily Crunch: After clinching $12.3B valuation, Brex hires Meta exec as chief product officer

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 11, 2022! Today we have new venture funds, spyware news, Brex raising (again), and more. Cybersecurity matters to democracy : Spyware built by the infamous NSO Group was “used to spy on three critics of the Polish government,” according to Citizen Lab, TechCrunch reports. (For

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