Ask any venture capitalist about the most important ingredient to success in startups, and they’ll tell you it’s founders who can persuade not only investors to part with their capital but, more important, who can convince people to leave what are often more stable jobs in order to help build their companies. Ryan Cohen certainly
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by Danny Bradbury The June patch Tuesday is out, featuring 88 CVE-level fixes, including 21 rated critical. Adobe, meanwhile, fixes several critical vulnerabilities, including a flaw in Adobe Flash Player marked critical because it could be exploited remotely. Adobe published a patch for a Flash Player bug (CVE-2019-7845), affecting versions 32.0.0.192 and earlier, that lets an
According to the SANS CTI 2019 survey results, 72% of organizations either consume or produce Threat Intelligence. Although most organizations have Intelligence data, they struggle with defining requirements and managing Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) as a program with measurable output. This likely results from threat data and intelligence being perceived as a technical function unrelated
La Liga says that it will continue to test new technologies in its fight against unlicensed broadcasts of soccer games in public venues Spain’s national data protection agency AEPD has slapped a fine of €250,000 (US$280,000) on the country’s top-flight soccer league, La Liga, for failing to make it adequately clear to users of its
Real-time visibility into IT assets and activities introduces speed and efficiency to many critical productivity and security tasks organizations are struggling with—from conventional asset inventory reporting to proactive elimination of exposed attack surfaces. However, gaining such visibility is often highly resource consuming and entails manual integration of various feeds. Cynet is now offering end-users and
Ahead of the public launch of Apple’s revamped suite of first-party apps on iOS 13, the company has rolled out a new version of its popular video editor, iMovie for iOS. With the app’s most recent update, iMovie has received a host of new features — most notably, support for a green screen effect that
A week after receiving a ransom request for $150,000, alternative-rock band Radiohead decided to go live with the 18 hours of stolen music that was never intended for public consumption. On June 5, Consequence of Sound reported that 18 hours of Radiohead’s music was leaked online. The band announced on June 11 that it has officially released
Modern Fertility is a San Francisco-based company that sells fertility tests directly to consumers, but increasingly, those customers will be educating the company, too. Indeed, the two-year-old startup now plans to develop a database of anonymized data about its largely younger demographic. A fresh $15 million in funding led by Forerunner Ventures should help. Forerunner
by John E Dunn Looking at the spec sheet, it’s not hard to understand why someone in search of an affordable but well-specified home security camera would choose the wireless IPM-721 series from US company Amcrest. Launched around 2015, it offers 720p HD quality, two-way audio, the ability to pan and tilt, night vision, rounded
For as long as you’ve had a phone, you’ve probably experienced in one form or another a robocall. These days it seems like they are only becoming more prevalent too. In fact, it was recently reported that robocall scams surged to 85 million globally, up 325% from 2017. While these scams vary by country, the
The images, collected over one and a half months, were taken as the travelers crossed an unspecified border point The United States’ Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that a security incident at one of its subcontractors has compromised the photos of thousands of travelers entering and departing the country. In addition to the
After Adobe, the technology giant Microsoft today—on June 2019 Patch Tuesday—also released its monthly batch of software security updates for various supported versions of Windows operating systems and other Microsoft products. This month’s security updates include patches for a total of 88 vulnerabilities, 21 are rated Critical, 66 are Important, and one is rated Moderate
“You’re probably asking, ‘what is a gaming browser?’ ” Opera PM Maciek Kocemba says in the opening of the Opera GX introduction video. Fair enough. My first thought when the Norwegian browser company mentioned the concept to me was something akin Google Stadia, with remote game streaming. Turns out a gaming browser — in this
A sophisticated scam is targeting Gmail users through fraudulent, unsolicited Google Calendar notifications as well as through other Google services, including Photos and Forms, according to Kaspersky. In these scams, criminals are exploiting Gmail calendar’s default feature that automatically adds calendar invitations and notifications. Cyber-criminals reportedly send targets an unsolicited calendar invitation with a malicious link
The travel tech industry has got another unicorn. Following the likes of Airbnb, OYO, Traveloka and Klook, Korea’s Yanolja said today it has closed a $180 million Series D round that takes it valuation beyond $1 billion. The investment is led by GIC, a Singapore sovereign wealth fund, and Booking Holdings, the U.S. firm behind
by Paul Ducklin Thanks to Graham Chantry of SophosLabs for his help with this article. Remember Microsoft’s Equation Editor? It was written way back in 2000, before Bill Gates’s famous 2002 “trustworthy computing” email. That email was a message to everyone at Microsoft to start writing software with security in mind up front, rather than
The school year has come to an end, and with it comes the start of summer! For many, this time of year brings excitement and anticipation to jet-set off to their favorite destinations and spend some quality time with family. But while many are soaking up the sun or sharing fun photos online, cybercriminals also
Linux users, beware! If you haven’t recently updated your Linux operating system, especially the command-line text editor utility, do not even try to view the content of a file using Vim or Neovim. Security researcher Armin Razmjou recently discovered a high-severity arbitrary OS command execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-12735) in Vim and Neovim—two most popular and powerful
This is one of those ‘I’m not surprised but I am slightly terrified’ moments in tech development: Enterprise smart glasses company Vuzix announced Monday that it has developed new “fully autonomous” face recognition software in partnership with software developer NNTC. The new solution will work with Vuzix’s Blade smart glasses, which debuted at CES earlier
In the SANS 2019 Cloud Security Survey, 56% of respondents stated their primary concern with the cloud was unauthorized access to their data by outsiders. Of the 10.5% that actually experienced attacks, 49% indicated that account and credential hijacking were to blame, and another 38% indicated that privileged user abuse was involved. These statistics reveal
Entrust Datacard announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Thales’ General Purpose Hardware Security Module (GP HSM) business, nCipher Security. With this acquisition Entrust Datacard enhances its existing public key infrastucture (PKI) and SSL offerings, which the company says positions itself to effectively secure customers’ sensitive information and business critical applications with the implementation of
E3 may not officially start until Tuesday, but the announcements are coming fast a furious. A few short hours after Microsoft previewed its streaming service and next get console, Bethesda took to the stage a few blocks a way, with footage from new Elder Scroll and Doom titles, along with a lot more Fallout 76
by Lisa Vaas New research shows that most vulnerabilities aren’t exploited and those that are tend to have a high CVSS score (awarded on the basis of how dangerous and easy to exploit the vulnerability is). So, not surprisingly, the most easily exploited flaws are the ones exploited most frequently. What’s more surprising is that
Security researchers have discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in a popular IPTV middleware platform that is currently being used by more than a thousand regional and international online media streaming services to manage their millions of subscribers. Discovered by security researchers at CheckPoint, the vulnerabilities reside in the administrative panel of Ministra TV platform, which if
“Always Be My Maybe” — a new film starring and co-written by Ali Wong and Randall Park — continues Netflix’s streak of solid romantic comedies. That said, anyone expecting it to match Wong’s delightfully dirty stand-up (showcased in the Netflix specials “Baby Cobra” and “Hard Knock Wife”) might be disappointed. Instead, “Always Be My Maybe”
A new adware known as BeiTaAD was found embedded in 238 applications in the official Google Play store and have been installed by 440 million Android users, according to security researcher Kristina Balaam of Lookout. “BeiTaAd is a well-obfuscated advertising plug-in hidden within a number of popular applications in Google Play. The plug-in forcibly displays ads
Welcome back to the transcribed edition of the wildly popular TechCrunch podcast, Equity. This week Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm convened in the new studio to discuss the biggest venture capital news of the week. There was a lot of news to get to so they started with some quick hits about Thumbtack, Bird, Scoot,
by Lisa Vaas Toss the FBI’s massive facial recognition (FR) databases into the wash, add recommendations about privacy laws that the government watchdog GAO (Government Accountability Office) laid out back in 2016, and set the dial to three years later. Do you get a shrunken collection of people’s faces at the end of the spin
According to a study recently released by National Research Group (NRG), the wildly popular video game Fortnite is growing beyond its intended gaming platform into a favored social network where kids go daily to chat, message, and connect. The study represents the most in-depth study on Fortnite to date and contains essential takeaways for parents trying
Security researchers have discovered an ongoing sophisticated botnet campaign that is currently brute-forcing more than 1.5 million publicly accessible Windows RDP servers on the Internet. Dubbed GoldBrute, the botnet scheme has been designed in a way to escalate gradually by adding every new cracked system to its network, forcing them to further find new available
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