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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. Turn on two-factor authentication!

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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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Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes

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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, February 15, 2022! It is an interesting argument against Windows and the larger Web (we kid), but does raise notable points regarding mobile security and consumer expectations. Image Credits: DNY59 (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Today in mega-rounds: Veho and Swappie.

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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, March 3, 2022. Image Credits: sergeyskleznev (opens in a new window). Yet more spyware is out there, stealing your data : Sadly, the name of the Android spyware that is sucking up folks’ information is called TeaBot, which is a super-cute moniker. PST, subscribe here.

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Daily Crunch: Byju’s founder chips in toward $800M funding round to reach $22B valuation

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, March 11, 2022! EU to investigate state use of spyware : The Pegasus mobile spyware is causing headaches in Europe for more than just the folks who found themselves targets of the software. Image Credits: Luca Lorenzelli/EyeEm (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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My New Year’s Resolution: Going Passwordless!

Ivanti

What is your New Year’s resolution for 2022? Also, with the resurgence of the Pegasus spyware that now exploits zero-day vulnerabilities in common apps like iMessage, FaceTime, Safari, WhatsApp, and others, stolen data – specifically credentials – allow attackers to gain a foothold onto a compromised device without the end user knowing.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: 6 Things That Matter Right Now

Tenable

Here’s a bumper crop of insights into how security teams are tackling – with varying degrees of success – the challenges of a growing and complex attack surface: The wide-ranging “2022 State of Cybersecurity” report from the non-profit Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA.). Securing the Internet of Things ” (U.S.

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