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A decade in, bootstrapped Thinkst Canary reaches $20M in ARR without VC funding
<p>Reflecting on 10 years since its launch, the honeypot maker explains why the company did not take on any VC funding.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 294 min read
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Security startup Horizon3.ai is raising $100M in new round
<p>Horizon3.ai, a cybersecurity startup that provides tools like autonomous penetration testing, is seeking to raise $100 million in a new funding round and has locked down at least $73 million, the company revealed in an SEC filing this week. NEA led the round, according to two people familiar with the deal. One person said that […]</p>
Rahul Patil
May 282 min read
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Victoria’s Secret hit by outages as it battles security incident
<p>The fashion retailer’s outages began Monday.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 281 min read
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Data broker giant LexisNexis says breach exposed personal information of over 364,000 people
<p>The data collector said the stolen data includes Social Security numbers.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 282 min read
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Apple CEO reportedly urged Texas’ governor to ditch online child safety bill
<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to make changes to or veto a newly passed law in the state that would require the company to verify the ages of device owners, according to The Wall Street Journal. Abbott has yet to sign the bill. But Apple, alongside Google, has been working […]</p>
Rahul Patil
May 231 min read
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Microsoft says Lumma password stealer malware found on 394,000 Windows PCs
<p>Microsoft and law enforcement announced a coordinated takedown of the Lumma pasword-stealing malware.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 221 min read
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Signal’s new Windows update prevents the system from capturing screenshots of chats
<p>Signal said today that it is updating its Windows app to prevent the system from capturing screenshots, thereby protecting the content that is on display. The company said that this new “screen security” setting is enabled by default on Windows 11. Signal said that this new feature is designed to protect users’ privacy from Microsoft’s […]</p>
Rahul Patil
May 222 min read
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Wyden: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon weren’t notifying senators of surveillance requests
<p>Sen. Ron Wyden said in a letter that one U.S. phone carrier turned over Senate data to law enforcement without notifying the target.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 213 min read
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The people in Elon Musk’s DOGE universe
<p>Meet the DOGE staffers and senior advisers in Elon Musk’s inner circle, and how they got there.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 2022 min read
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Cocospy stalkerware apps go offline after data breach
<p>The trio of spyware apps — hacked earlier this year — no longer work.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 193 min read
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US man who hacked SEC’s X account to spike Bitcoin price sentenced to prison
<p>The Department of Justice announced Eric Council Jr. was sentenced to 14 months in prison for the hack. </p>
Rahul Patil
May 161 min read
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Coinbase says customers’ personal information stolen in data breach
<p>The crypto exchange giant said the hacker bribed contractors and employees in support roles to steal data. </p>
Rahul Patil
May 152 min read
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White House scraps plan to block data brokers from selling Americans’ sensitive data
<p>The decision to reverse course comes after an industry lobby group called for the rule change to be withdrawn.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 142 min read
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xAI’s promised safety report is MIA
<p>Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has missed a self-imposed deadline to publish a finalized AI safety framework, as noted by watchdog group The Midas Project. xAI isn’t exactly known for its strong commitments to AI safety as it’s commonly understood. A recent report found that the company’s AI chatbot, Grok, would undress photos of women when […]</p>
Rahul Patil
May 132 min read
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Google announces new security features for Android for protection against scam and theft
<p>At the Android Show on Tuesday, ahead of Google I/O, Google announced new security and privacy features for Android. These new features include new protections for calls, screen sharing, messages, device access, and system-level permissions. With these features, Google aims to protect users from falling for a scam, keep their details secure in case a […]</p>
Rahul Patil
May 133 min read
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GovDelivery, an email alert system used by governments, abused to send scam messages
<p>The state of Indiana attributed the scam emails to a compromised contractor’s account.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 133 min read
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Marks & Spencer confirms customers’ personal data was stolen in hack
<p>A ransomware gang reportedly took credit for the data breach.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 132 min read
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FBI and Dutch police seize and shut down botnet of hacked routers
<p>U.S. authorities indicted three Russians and one Kazakhstan national for hacking and selling access to a botnet made of vulnerable internet-connected devices.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 93 min read
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Florida bill requiring encryption backdoors for social media accounts has failed
<p>The bill would have required social media companies create encryption backdoors to allow access to users’ private information.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 91 min read
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A timeline of South Korean telco giant SKT’s data breach
<p>In April, South Korea’s telco giant SK Telecom (SKT) was hit by a cyberattack that led to the theft of personal data on approximately 23 million customers, equivalent to almost half of the country’s 52 million residents. At a National Assembly hearing in Seoul on Thursday, SKT chief executive Young-sang Ryu said about 250,000 users […]</p>
Rahul Patil
May 84 min read
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