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Apple’s Lockdown Mode is good for security — but its notifications are baffling
<p>Lockdown Mode is an “extreme protection” feature that’s good for at-risk users, but its notifications are increasingly confusing. </p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 13, 20255 min read
Apple’s appeal against UK’s secret iCloud backdoor order must be held in public, rights groups urge
<p>Privacy rights groups have called on Apple’s legal challenge to a secret U.K. government order asking it to backdoor an end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) version of its iCloud storage service to be heard in public, rather than behind closed doors. The existence of the order emerged via press reports last month. Apple went on to confirm […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 13, 20252 min read
Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic
<p>A huge chunk of online traffic now comes from bots, both good and bad — but AI is boosting the latter. From DDoS attacks to scraping, there’s a renewed barrage of threats that companies have to deal with. According to cybersecurity entrepreneur Nikita Rozenberg, the impact is more severe for SMBs. “The main difference is […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 13, 20253 min read
Garantex administrator arrested in India at request of US authorities
<p>Garantex co-founder Aleksej Besciokov was arrested in India’s Kerala on Tuesday, U.S. and Indian officials tell TechCrunch.</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 12, 20253 min read
Pentera nabs $60M at a $1B+ valuation to build simulated network attacks to train security teams
<p>Strong and smart security operations teams are at the heart of any cybersecurity strategy, and today a startup that builds tooling to help keep them on their toes is announcing some funding on the back of a lot of growth. Pentera — which has built a system that launches simulations of network attacks to stress […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 12, 20253 min read


North Korean government hackers snuck spyware on Android app store
<p>Cybersecurity firm Lookout found several samples of a North Korean spyware it calls KoSpy.</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 12, 20253 min read
Tata Technologies’ data leaked by ransomware gang
<p>A ransomware gang has leaked internal Tata Technologies data, a month after the company confirmed a ransomware attack.</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 12, 20252 min read
Apple fixes new security flaw used in ‘extremely sophisticated attack’
<p>The flaw was in the browser engine WebKit, used by Safari and other apps.</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 11, 20251 min read
DOGE axes CISA ‘red team’ staffers amid ongoing federal cuts
<p>Affected staff say more than 100 employees working to protect U.S. government networks were ‘axed’ with no prior warning</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 11, 20252 min read
FTC says Americans lost $12.5B to scams last year — social media, AI, and crypto didn’t help
<p>You’re not the only one getting voicemails about your car’s extended warranty. According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), about 2.6 million people submitted reports on falling victim to fraud in 2024, totaling $12.5 billion in losses. That’s a big jump from $2.5 billion lost in 2023, when the FTC received roughly the same […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 11, 20253 min read
Trump nominates Sean Plankey as new CISA director
<p>Plankey, if approved by the Senate, will serve as CISA’s third director.</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 11, 20251 min read
Sola emerges from stealth with $30M to build the ‘Stripe for security’
<p>Enterprises these days can choose from hundreds of apps and services available to secure their networks, data, and assets — nearly as many more to help them manage all the alerts and extra work that those security apps generate. But what if you could build your own apps, customized to your own workloads, to simplify […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 11, 20254 min read


Some say passkeys are clunky — this startup wants to change that
<p>Hawcx, backed by Engineering Capital, aims to solve passkeys’ adoption challenge with its new tech.</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 11, 20253 min read
What PowerSchool won’t say about its data breach affecting millions of students
<p>New details have emerged about PowerSchool’s data breach — but here’s what PowerSchool still isn’t saying.</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 10, 20256 min read
Hacker accessed PowerSchool’s network months before massive December breach
<p>CrowdStrike says a hacker had access to PowerSchool’s internal system as far back as August.</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 10, 20252 min read
Following takedown operation, Garantex invites customers to ‘face-to-face’ Moscow meeting
<p>Russian crypto exchange Garantex has yet to directly address the international law enforcement operation that resulted in the seizure of its domains, and criminal charges against two of its administrators. </p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 10, 20252 min read


US charges admins of Garantex for allegedly facilitating crypto money laundering for terrorists and hackers
<p>The administrators of Garantex, Aleksej Besciokov and Aleksandr Mira Serda, allegedly knew their crypto exchange was used to launder money, according to U.S. prosecutors.</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 7, 20254 min read
Japanese telco giant NTT Com says hackers accessed details of almost 18,000 organizations
<p>Unidentified hackers breached NTT Com’s network to steal personal information of employees at thousands of corporate customers</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 7, 20252 min read
FBI says scammers are targeting US executives with fake BianLian ransom notes
<p>The FBI is warning that scammers are impersonating the BianLian ransomware gang using fake ransom notes sent to U.S. corporate executives. The fake ransom notes, first reported by U.S. cybersecurity company GuidePoint Security, claim that hackers have gained access to an organization’s network to steal sensitive data, and threaten to publish the stolen data unless […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 7, 20251 min read
Anthropic’s Claude Code tool had a bug that ‘bricked’ some systems
<p>The problematic code changed file permissions that broke some systems, users say. </p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 6, 20251 min read
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