Plexo Capital, the fund founded by former GV Partner Lo Toney, has closed its first fund of $42.5 million. The plan is to invest in both startups and emerging VC funds, with 60% to 65% of the capital going toward venture capital funds as a limited partner, and 35% to 40% going directly to startups,
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As music streaming apps struggle to differentiate, Apple is making concert video a more central part of its strategy with tonight’s big Billie Eilish show at its HQ’s Steve Jobs Theater. The Apple Music Awards concert will be streaming live and then on-demand to Apple Music’s 60 million subscribers. Apple would like to do more
A free holiday-themed cybersecurity conference set in a virtual North Pole is scheduled to take place for the second year running. KringleCon 2019 invites hackers and cybersecurity professionals from across the globe to hear expert speakers, watch educational demos, share tips, and test their skills in a cyber-battle. The conference, which will begin next week,
NSS Labs ended its legal battle against the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, Symantec and ESET. The independent testing firm dropped its antitrust lawsuit Tuesday, which was filed in 2018 against AMTSO (a nonprofit organization) and several top endpoint security vendors, including Symantec, ESET and CrowdStrike. The suit accused the vendors and AMTSO of conspiring to
by Danny Bradbury Phishing scammers have once again targeted users of the popular Steam gaming service, it was revealed this week. The credential-stealing scam, first reported by security researcher ‘nullcookies’ on Twitter, offers new skins every day. A skin is a modification providing a new look and feel for items in Steam’s online games, and
IM-RAT, which could be had for as little as US$25, was bought by nearly 15,000 people Law enforcement authorities in a number of countries have broken up a cybercriminal operation that peddled a notorious Remote Access Trojan (RAT) capable of giving anyone with ill intentions total control over compromised machines, according to announcements by Europol,
Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered details of two new vulnerabilities in the GoAhead web server software, a tiny application widely embedded in hundreds of millions of Internet-connected smart devices. One of the two vulnerabilities, assigned as CVE-2019-5096, is a critical code execution flaw that can be exploited by attackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable devices
Plex today is launching its own ad-supported streaming service, a rival to The Roku Channel, Tubi, Crackle, Vudu’s Movies on Us, and others that offer a way to stream movies and TV for free without a subscription. The service will feature several thousand movies and shows from studios like MGM, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution,
AWS today quietly brought spot capacity to Fargate, its serverless compute engine for containers that supports both the company’s Elastic Container Service and, now, its Elastic Kubernetes service. Like spot instances for the EC2 compute platform, Fargate Spot pricing is significantly cheaper, both for storage and compute, than regular Fargate pricing. In return, though, you
Almost all small and medium-sized businesses in America have executives who are living in fear of a cyber-attack from foreign adversaries, according to new research published today. The Q4 Cyberthreat Index for Business Survey by Zix-AppRiver found that 93% of SMB executives believe that as foreign adversaries attempt to breach national security or wage cyber-war, they will use small businesses such
by Danny Bradbury Researchers have found yet another massive database inadvertently exposed online, leaking millions of records. This time, it was a database of SMS messages from enterprise texting services provider TrueDialog, and the people that found it claim that the exposure could have compromised tens of millions of people. Researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locarat
We distilled 30 independent reports dedicated to cybersecurity and cybercrime predictions for 2020 and compiled the top 5 most interesting findings and projections in this post. Compliance fatigue will spread among security professionals Being a source of ongoing controversy and debate, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was finalized on 11th January 1, 2019. Driven
Salv, an anti-money laundering (AML) startup founded by former TransferWise and Skype employees, has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round is led by Fly Ventures, alongside Passion Capital and Seedcamp. Angel investors also participating include N26 founder Maximilian Tayenthal (who seems to be doing quite a bit of angel investing), Twilio CTO Ott
Even to an experienced carpenter, it may not be obvious what the best way is to build a structure they’ve designed. A new digital tool, Carpentry Compiler, provides a way forward, converting the shapes of the structure to a step-by-step guide on how to produce them. It could help your next carpentry project get off
An American health services provider has agreed to pay a fine of $2.175m after refusing to properly notify Health and Human Services of a data breach. In April of 2017, a complaint regarding Sentara Hospitals was received by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The complainant said that they had received a bill from Sentara Hospitals
by John E Dunn The Russian ‘Sandworm’ hacking group (not to be confused with the malware of the same name) has been caught repeatedly uploading fake and modified Android apps to Google’s Play store. They were detected by Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG), making the attacks public during a presentation at the recent CyberwarCon conference.
Smart selections when starting small can ease the pain as you scale up your company’s privacy infrastructure If, unlike enterprise customers, you don’t have six figures to spend, what are some things you can do to protect your data that can scale as your business grows? Even if you don’t plan on scaling to an
Two third-party software development kits integrated by over hundreds of thousands of Android apps have been caught holding unauthorized access to users’ data associated with their connected social media accounts. In a blog post published yesterday, Twitter revealed that an SDK developed by OneAudience contains a privacy-violating component which may have passed some of its
It’s not friend portability, but Facebook has announced the launch today of a photo transfer tool to enable users of its social network to port their photos directly to Google’s photo storage service, via encrypted transfer. The photo portability feature is initially being offered to Facebook users in Ireland, where the company’s international HQ is
Susan Wojcicki may be one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley, but she also holds the unenviable role of being ultimately responsible for a lot of garbage that we, along with our parents, siblings, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and children — not to mention billions of strangers — now consume on YouTube. That garbage,
American cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks has suffered a data breach after a third-party vendor accidentally published personal data regarding the firm’s employees online. The privacy of seven current and former employees of Palo Alto Networks was compromised in the incident, which took place in February of this year. Details shared on the internet for
With companies around the world just getting used to GDPR, those doing business in California must now prep to comply with the state’s CCPA, and more consumer privacy regulations are on the horizon. Companies required to follow these privacy compliance mandates are under pressure to make extensive changes to their IT and security processes —
by John E Dunn Adobe’s Magento Marketplace has suffered a data breach, the company has said in an email sent to customers. The Magento Marketplace is where the Magento e-commerce Content Management System’s 250,000 customers can access software add-ons including extensions, themes and third-party services. The company hasn’t said when the breach happened, merely that
You can relate this: While working on my laptop, I usually prefer sitting at a corner in the room from where no one should be able to easily stare at my screen, and if you’re a hacker, you must have more reasons to be paranoid. Let’s go undercover: If you’re in love with the Kali
Hey everyone. Thank you for welcoming me into you inboxes yet again. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. After dodging your inboxes for a couple weeks as I ventured off to China for a TechCrunch event in Shenzhen, I am rested up and ready to go. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site,
Following swiftly on the heels of a Thanksgiving that broke records with $4.2 billion in online sales, Black Friday also hit a new high, although it just fell short of predictions. According to analytics from Adobe, consumers spent $7.4 billion online yesterday buying goods online via computers, tablets and smartphones. The figures were up by
Cybersecurity has been listed as one of the challenges facing the United States Postal Service (USPS) in a semi-annual report to Congress by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The report, which was released on Monday, outlines the most critical management issues with which the service has had to contend during the six-month period from
by John E Dunn When it comes to the issue of managing drones (Unmanned Aircraft Systems, or UAS) the US Department of Justice wants Americans to know it’s on the case. In 2015, the DOJ published what was meant to be a comprehensive policy governing how US Government departments and law enforcement use drones to
A device that is supposed to help parents keep track of their children and give them a peace of mind can be turned into a surveillance device Researchers at the AV-Test Institute have uncovered gaping privacy and security holes in the SMA-WATCH-M2 smartwatch that is designed to keep children safe and their parents feeling secure
For the first time, The Hacker News launches a comprehensive Cybersecurity Salary Survey aimed to provide insights into the payment standards of security positions, enabling security professionals to benchmark their salaries against their peers, as well as get clear insights into the leading roles, certifications, geo- and industry- components that factor a cybersecurity position payroll.
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