Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a newsletter published every Saturday that dives into the week’s noteworthy venture capital deals, funds and trends. Before I dive into this week’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Last week, I wrote about the proliferation of billion-dollar companies. Before that, I noted the uptick in beverage startup
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In a new sextortion scam, cyber-criminals are posing as corrupt officials of the CIA and demanding $10,000 from their targets whose names they claim to have found in an investigation into online pedophiles, according to Kaspersky Lab. Victims reportedly receive an email authored by what appears to be a corrupt CIA agent involved in “a large
Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker Faire, to lay off its entire staff of 22 and pause all operations. TechCrunch was tipped off to Maker Media’s unfortunate situation which was then confirmed by the company’s founder and CEO Dale
by John E Dunn Researchers have discovered another dangerous security hole hiding in recent, unpatched versions of the popular mail server, Exim. Uncovered in May 2019 by security company Qualys, the flaw (CVE-2019-10149) affects Exim versions 4.87 to 4.91 inclusive running on several Linux distros, the latter released as far back as 15 April 2018.
Our love of technology and often biological need for new devices has created one of the biggest environmental issues of our time – e-waste. Today is World Environment Day – a great opportunity to ensure we are doing all we can to minimise landfill and protect our precious environment. Over the last 12 months, BYO
If exploited, the security hole in Exim could allow attackers to run arbitrary commands on vulnerable mail servers Exim, the popular mail transfer agent (MTA) software, contains a critical-rated vulnerability that can, in some scenarios, enable remote attackers to run commands of their choice on unpatched mail servers, researchers from Qualys have found. Tracked under
An anonymous security researcher going by the name of SandboxEscaper today publicly shared a second zero-day exploit that can be used to bypass a recently patched elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system. SandboxEscaper is known for publicly dropping zero-day exploits for unpatched Windows vulnerabilities. In the past year, the hacker has
If you ask Eugenio Pace to describe himself, “engineer” would be fairly high on the list. “Being a CEO is pretty busy,” he told TechCrunch in a call last week. “But I’m an engineer in my heart — I am a problem solver,” he said. Pace, an Argentinan immigrant to the U.S., founded identity management
If Captain Ahab were a modern cybercriminal, his Moby Dick might well be an enterprise CEO. In a type of focused phishing attack called whaling, hackers target high-level end users through individually tailored campaigns designed to trick their marks into surrendering access, information or both. “People who are at high levels in an organization are
Increasingly, healthcare organizations are the target of cyber-criminals looking to profit from the treasure trove of personal data these companies possess, according to a new report from Carbon Black. The Healthcare Cyber Heist in 2019 report surveyed industry CISOs to understand the ways that threats to the industry have evolved. A vast majority (83%) of healthcare
FoodShot Global, a prize platform devoted to transforming the world’s food and agriculture industries, has awarded the first round of prizes for its Innovating Soil 3.0 competition. Trace Genomics, a startup developing an analytics service for soil health to optimize the use of farmland, has received an undisclosed investment from FoodShot’s investment partner, S2G Ventures. Additional
by John E Dunn Years in the making, the latest version of Firefox, 67.0.1, has finally unleashed a fully fledged version of Mozilla’s much-touted Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) privacy system. Mozilla’s reached this point through so many smaller jumps that Firefox users could be forgiven for being confused about what ETP adds to the browser
The Federal government has long struggled to close the cybersecurity workforce gap. The problem has continued to get worse as the number of threats against our networks, critical infrastructure, intellectual property, and the millions of IoT devices we use in our homes, offices and on our infrastructure increase. Without a robust cyber workforce, federal agencies
The alert comes on the heels of Microsoft’s second advisory calling on people to take action before it’s too late The United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) has issued a rare alert urging Windows users and administrators to waste no time in patching the critical ‘BlueKeep’ security flaw in older Windows systems. “This is the
Are you using Komodo’s Agama Wallet to store your KMD and BTC cryptocurrencies? Were your funds also unauthorisedly transferred overnight to a new address? If yes, don’t worry, it’s probably safe, and if you are lucky, you will get your funds back. Here’s what exactly happened… Komodo, a cryptocurrency project and developer of Agama wallet,
Uber is adding regular helicopter air service to the heaviest users of its platform with Uber Copter – a new service line launched today that will provide on-demand transportation from Lower Manhattan to JFK airport for, on average, between $200 and $225 per person, which includes car service to and from the helipad at each
Cyberwarfare is computer- or network-based conflict involving politically motivated attacks by a nation-state on another nation-state. In these types of attacks, nation-state actors attempt to disrupt the activities of organizations or nation-states, especially for strategic or military purposes and cyberespionage. Although cyberwarfare generally refers to cyberattacks perpetrated by one nation-state on another, it can also
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) inspector general has reported that 115 TVA registered domains were found not meeting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) standards for cybersecurity during an audit earlier this year. A memo published by the TVA Inspector General’s Office on May 29, 2019, reported that internal auditors also found that encryption requirements
Everyone gets a kick out of mocking the quintessential San Francisco techie, Patagonia vest and all. ‘Socially Inept,’ a new traveling comedy cohort, is making a business out of it. The group has been roasting the tech scene in hubs across the U.S., including Seattle, where the company is based, as well as Los Angeles,
by John E Dunn Unbeknown to most users, devices running supported versions of Android are supposed to get small amounts of new software every month, mostly security updates. Unfortunately, as we pointed out in May, when and whether that happens is a matter of whim for each device’s manufacturer. Updates for Google’s Pixel smartphones will
As the companies we trust with our data become more digital, it’s important for users to realize how this affects their own cybersecurity. Take your medical care provider, for instance. You walk into a doctor’s office and fill out a form on a clipboard. This information is then transferred to a computer where a patient
How a Montreal-made “social search engine” application has managed to become widely-spread adware, while escaping consequences Wajam Internet Technologies is a start-up founded in December 2008 by Martin-Luc Archambault (a famous entrepreneur in Quebec) and based in Montreal, Canada. The core product of the company is a social search engine application (i.e. it allows searching
As promised, Mozilla has finally enabled “Enhanced Tracking Protection” feature on its Firefox browser by default, which from now onwards would automatically block all third-party tracking cookies that allow advertisers and websites to track you across the web. Tracking cookies, also known as third-party cookies, allows advertisers to monitor your online behavior and interests, using
Aion Network, a non-profit dedicated to creating tools to promote blockchain technologies, announced a new virtual machine today that’s built on top of the popular Java Virtual Machine. Its ultimate goal is increasing the popularity of blockchain with developers. Aion CEO Matthew Spoke says one of the barriers to more widespread blockchain adoption has been
The results of the 2019 European Security Blogger Awards have been announced. Held at an event organized by Eskenzi PR and sponsored by Synopsys, this year saw new awards announced recognizing new blogs and podcasts, as well as newer social media platforms. The winners were as follows: The n00bs – Best new cybersecurity podcast – Darknet Diaries
As expected, there was a lot at yesterday’s big WWDC keynote. In fact, you got the sense watching the whole thing unfold that Apple had to race through a number of its new features to cram everything into the two-hour-plus event. For many, the new Mac Pro was the star of the show, but for
by John E Dunn What’s more embarrassing than a researcher revealing a security oversight in a company’s software? In the case of Apple, it would be when that software, macOS 10.15 ‘Catalina’, hasn’t even shipped to users yet. The bearer of bad news was noted researcher Patrick Wardle of Digita Security, who used last weekend’s
There’s an undeniable appeal to a smart coffee maker that knows when you wake up so you’re never left without a freshly brewed pot. Or a smart tea kettle that heats water to the perfect temperature for brewing your favorite varietal. But does the convenience of automation put your personal data up for grabs? Could smart coffee
It is the second major breach that the Australian National University suffered in 2018 A premier Australian university has disclosed a cyberattack that compromised the personal information of its students and staff extending back nearly two decades. “We believe there was unauthorised access to significant amounts of personal staff, student and visitor data extending back 19 years,”
A security researcher today revealed details of a newly unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Tracked as CVE-2019-9510, the reported vulnerability could allow client-side attackers to bypass the lock screen on remote desktop (RD) sessions. Discovered by Joe Tammariello of Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), the flaw exists when Microsoft
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