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European tech industry coalition calls for ‘radical action’ on digital sovereignty — starting with buying local
<p>A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe’s tech industry is calling for “radical action” from European Union lawmakers to shrink reliance on foreign-owned digital infrastructure and services to bolster the bloc’s economic prospects, resilience, and security in increasingly fraught geopolitical times. In an open letter to both European Commission President Ursula von […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 1714 min read
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AT&T technician Mark Klein, who exposed secret NSA spying, dies
<p>Klein, a former AT&T technician turned whistleblower, exposed mass surveillance by the U.S. government in 2006.</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 141 min read
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Accused LockBit ransomware developer extradited to the US
<p>The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Rostislav Panev, who developed code and maintained infrastructure for LockBit, is now in U.S. custody. </p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 141 min read
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US lawmakers urge UK spy court to hold Apple ‘backdoor’ secret hearing in public
<p>U.S. bipartisan lawmakers say the U.K. order gagging Apple from disclosing the demand is unconstitutional.</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 142 min read
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UK’s secret iCloud backdoor order triggers civil rights challenge
<p>The U.K. government’s secret order to Apple demanding it backdoor the end-to-end encrypted version of its iCloud storage service has now been challenged by two civil rights groups, Liberty and Privacy International, which filed complaints Thursday. They called the order “unacceptable and disproportionate” and warned of “global consequences” as the access order is thought to […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 141 min read
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Amazon is still hosting spyware victims’ data weeks after breach alert
<p>Amazon won’t say if it will stop hosting data from three phone surveillance operations that spilled private data on millions of people.</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 135 min read
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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 135 min read
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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 132 min read
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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 133 min read
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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 123 min read
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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 123 min read
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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 123 min read
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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 122 min read
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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 111 min read
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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 112 min read
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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 113 min read
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Trump nominates Sean Plankey as new CISA directorÂ
<p>Plankey, if approved by the Senate, will serve as CISA’s third director.</p>
Rahul Patil
Mar 111 min read
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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 114 min read
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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 113 min read
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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 106 min read
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