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Passwordstate customers complain of silence and secrecy after cyberattack16h ago ( August 4, 2021 at 11:00 AM ) It has been over three months since Click Studios, the Australian software house behind the enterprise password manager Passwordstate, warned its customers to “commence resetting all passwords.” The company was hit by a supply chain attack that sought to steal the passwords from customer servers around the world.
But customers tell TechCrunch that they are still without answers about the attack. Several customers say they were met with silence from Click Studios, while others were asked to sign ...Tags: Security, Government, Tech, Cybercrime, United States, Computing, Orion, Phishing, Signal, Computer Security, Solarwinds, U S, CSIS, Passwordstate, Supply Chain Attack, Mark Sandford 44 people like this. Like A Silicon Valley VC firm with $1.8B in assets was hit by ransomwareAugust 3, 2021 at 1:45 PM Advanced Technology Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm with more than $1.8 billion in assets under its management, was hit by a ransomware attack in July that saw cybercriminals steal personal information on the company’s private investors, or limited partners (LPs).
In a letter to the Maine attorney general’s office, ATV said it became aware of the attack on July 9 after its servers storing financial information had been encrypted by ransomware. By July 26, the ATV learned that dat...Tags: Google, Boston, Tech, Cisco, Fbi, Maine, Social Security, Silicon Valley, Signal, Belden, ATV, Menlo Park California, Silicon Valley VC, Advanced Technology Ventures, Mike Carusi, Natasha Mascarenhas 37 people like this. Like Google will require employees on its campuses to get vaccinated as it delays its office return. It's the first mega-cap tech giant to do so.July 28, 2021 at 1:30 PM Tags: Apple, Google, US, Trends, New York Times, Tim Cook, Delta, Sundar Pichai, Signal, Cnbc, Alphabet, Pichai, Reuters Google, Tech Insider, Stephen Lam, Josh Lipton 133 people like this. Like Calgary’s parking authority exposed drivers’ personal data and ticketsJuly 28, 2021 at 11:00 AM If you parked your car in one of the thousands of parking spots across Calgary, there’s a good chance you paid the Calgary Parking Authority for the privilege. But soon you might be hearing from the authority after a recent security lapse exposed the personal information of vehicle owners.
The parking authority oversees about 14% of the paid parking spots in the Calgary region, and lets drivers pay to park their cars by a parking kiosk, online, or through the phone app by entering their vehicle’...Tags: Security, MetroMile, New York, Privacy, Tech, Spokesperson, Data Breach, Automotive, Transport, Parking, Volkswagen, Driver, Calgary, Signal, Parkmobile, Computer Security 1 people like this. Like Calgary’s parking authority exposed driver’s personal data and ticketsJuly 28, 2021 at 11:00 AM If you parked your car in one of the thousands of parking spots across Calgary, there’s a good chance you paid the Calgary Parking Authority for the privilege. But soon you might be hearing from the authority after a recent security lapse exposed the personal information of vehicle owners.
The parking authority oversees about 14% of the paid parking spots in the Calgary region, and lets drivers pay to park their cars by a parking kiosk, online, or through the phone app by entering their vehicle’...Tags: Security, MetroMile, New York, Privacy, Tech, Spokesperson, Data Breach, Automotive, Transport, Parking, Volkswagen, Driver, Calgary, Signal, Parkmobile, Computer Security 46 people like this. Like Moving fast and breaking things cost us our privacy and securityJuly 22, 2021 at 2:02 PM Denis Mars
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Denis Mars is the CEO and co-founder of Proxy, which designs and builds privacy-first, human-led, identity technologies.
Over the years, I’ve had a front-row seat to the future of technology.
In my role at Y Combinator as director of admissions, I saw hundreds of startup pitches. Many shared a particular attribute: They followed the path of quickly growing users and monetizing the data ...Tags: Security, TC, Facebook, Column, Privacy, Opinion, Tech, Social Security, Data Protection, Silicon Valley, Signal, Data Security, Computer Security, Digital Identity, Denis Mars 27 people like this. Like This tool tells you if NSO’s Pegasus spyware targeted your phoneJuly 19, 2021 at 5:13 PM  Tags: Iphone, Android, Security, Microsoft, Mexico, Government, Tech, Cisco, European Union, Smartphones, Whatsapp, Spyware, Software, Hungary, Morocco, Paris 141 people like this. Like Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a serviceJuly 16, 2021 at 8:07 AM Switzerland-based privacy startup Nym Technologies has raised $6 million, which is being loosely pegged as a Series A round.
Earlier raises included a $2.5M seed round in 2019. The founders also took in grant money from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research fund during an earlier R&D phase developing the network tech.
The latest funding will be used to continue commercial development of network infrastructure which combines an old idea for obfuscating the metadata of data packets at the tra...Tags: Apple, Microsoft, Snowden, Nsa, China, US, Tech, Eu, European Union, Tor, Switzerland, Aws, Vpn, Ed, Ethereum, Signal 17 people like this. Like A new ‘digital violence’ platform maps dozens of victims of NSO Group’s spywareJuly 3, 2021 at 1:00 PM  Tags: Washington Post, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Tech, Spain, United States, Laura Poitras, Enrique Peña Nieto, United Arab Emirates, Amnesty International, Pegasus, Montreal, University of Toronto, Signal, Mohammed bin Salman 55 people like this. Like 10 things in tech: Amazon sought to buy Signal, Facebook lawsuit, Cisco salaries revealedJune 28, 2021 at 6:27 AM Tags: Amazon, Facebook, Elon Musk, Microsoft, Satya Nadella, Newsletter, Trends, Tech, Cisco, Tesla, Nasa, Jack Dorsey, Signal, Shopify, Musk, Dorsey 84 people like this. Like Android is now encrypting your RCS textsJune 16, 2021 at 6:25 AM  Tags: Google, Startups, Signal, RCS, Plugged 132 people like this. Like Facebook, WhatsApp, Google and other internet giants comply with India’s IT rulesMay 28, 2021 at 1:13 PM Google, Facebook, Telegram, LinkedIn and Tiger Global-backed Indian startups ShareChat and Koo have either fully or partially complied with the South Asian nation’s new IT rules, according to two people familiar with the matter and a government note obtained by TechCrunch.
India’s new IT rules, unveiled in February this year, required firms to appoint and share contact details of representatives tasked with compliance, nodal point of reference, and grievance redressals to address on-ground conc...Tags: Apple, Google, Facebook, Apps, Asia, Twitter, Government, India, Tech, Whatsapp, Pakistan, Delhi, Tiger Global, New Delhi, Signal, Koo 32 people like this. Like How to block a number on your smartphone or landline to stop spam calls and textsMay 26, 2021 at 5:00 PM Tags: Iphone, Apple, Android, Samsung, Trends, Facetime, Signal, Tech Insider, Spam Calls, Tech Reference, Tech How To, Devon Delfino, Smartphones (Reference, Block calls, Block numbers, Marko Geber Getty 131 people like this. Like Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs, raises $3.7M seedMay 26, 2021 at 9:00 AM Imagine if Google Docs was end-to-end encrypted so that not even Google could access your documents. That’s Skiff, in a nutshell.
Skiff is a document editor with a similar look and feel to Google Docs, allowing you to write, edit and collaborate in real-time with colleagues with privacy baked in. Because the document editor is built on a foundation of end-to-end encryption, Skiff doesn’t have access to anyone’s documents — only users, and those who are invited to collaborate, do.
It’s an idea th...Tags: Google, Security, Startups, Technology, Yahoo, Tech, Ceo, Encryption, Cryptography, End-to-end Encryption, Software, Google-docs, Sequoia Capital, Jerry Yang, Signal, Operating Systems 38 people like this. Like US towns are buying Chinese surveillance tech tied to Uighur abusesMay 24, 2021 at 11:00 AM  Tags: Florida, Hollywood, London, Congress, California, China, US, Tech, Beijing, United Nations, New Orleans, Muslim, Louisiana, Biden, Xinjiang, North Carolina 143 people like this. Like A guide to end-to-end encryption, the system that keeps your transmitted data and communication secureMay 14, 2021 at 7:32 PM Tags: Google, Security, Email, Server, Trends, Communication, Data, Cybersecurity, Whatsapp, End-to-end Encryption, Messages, Hackers, Telegram, Signal, Metadata, Dave Johnson 98 people like this. Like Reklamy, których nie zobaczysz w social mediachMay 7, 2021 at 10:07 AM  Tags: Google, Facebook, Sales, Signal, Blog Seo, Lew, Bo, Samo, Sieci, Sieci nie, Pierwszy, Signal org Facebook, Signala, Signalu 76 people like this. Like Months-long Twitter Backlash Had Zero Impact on WhatsApp's User BaseMay 7, 2021 at 7:31 AM  Tags: Facebook, India, Tech, Signal 57 people like this. Like WhatsApp, growing despite backlash, clarifies May 15 policy update deadlineMay 6, 2021 at 6:20 PM  Tags: Social, Facebook, Apps, India, Tech, Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal 135 people like this. Like WhatsApp is growing despite months-long backlash over policy updateMay 6, 2021 at 6:20 PM It’s safe to say WhatsApp didn’t have the ideal start to 2021. Less than a week into the new year, the Facebook-owned instant messaging app had already annoyed hundreds of thousands of users with its scary worded notification about a planned policy update. The backlash grew fast and millions of people, including several high-profile figures, started to explore rival apps Signal and Telegram.
Even governments, including India’s — WhatsApp’s biggest market by users — expressed concerns. (In the ca...Tags: Social, Facebook, Apps, India, Tech, Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal 41 people like this. Like WhatsApp is doing fine despite months-long backlash over policy updateMay 6, 2021 at 6:20 PM It’s safe to say WhatsApp didn’t have the ideal start to 2021. Less than a week into the new year, the Facebook-owned instant messaging app had already annoyed hundreds of thousands of users with its scary-worded notification about a planned policy update. The backlash grew fast and millions of people, including several high-profile figures, started to explore rival apps Signal and Telegram.
Even governments, including India’s — WhatsApp’s biggest market by users — expressed concerns. (In case o...Tags: Social, Facebook, Apps, India, Tech, Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal 14 people like this. Like WhatsApp, growing despite backlash, relaxes May 15 policy update deadlineMay 6, 2021 at 6:20 PM Tags: Social, Facebook, Apps, Privacy, India, Tech, Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal 110 people like this. Like Signal Tried To Use Instagram Ads To Display the Data Facebook Collects and Sells. Facebook Banned Signal's Account.May 5, 2021 at 5:25 PM Privacy-oriented messaging app Signal tried to run a very candid ad campaign on Facebook-owned Instagram, but it wasn't meant to be. From a report: Signal explained how it went down in a blog post Tuesday. The idea was to post ads on Instagram which use the data an online advertiser may have collected about users, and basically show the user what that data might be for them. "You got this ad because you're a teacher, but more importantly you're a Leo (and single). This ad used your location to s...Tags: Facebook, Instagram, Tech, Moscow, Leo, Signal, According to Signal 14 people like this. Like 10 things in tech you need to know todayMay 5, 2021 at 7:51 AM Tags: Google, Facebook, Spacex, Elon Musk, Florida, Washington, Newsletter, Trends, Tech, Tesla, Bill Gates, San Diego, Silicon Valley, Toyota, Bill, Seattle 115 people like this. Like Signal said Facebook shut down its advertising account after the privacy-focused messaging app tried to buy Instagram ads showing how the social media giant collects dataMay 4, 2021 at 4:54 PM Tags: Apple, Facebook, Elon Musk, Media, Instagram, Advertising, Trends, Social Media, Tesla, Data Privacy, Signal, Moxie Marlinspike, La Jolla, Tech Insider, Democratic Sen Elizabeth Warren, Katie Canales 84 people like this. Like Detroit-based Signal Advisors raises $10m Series A led by General CatalystApril 26, 2021 at 8:42 AM Signal Advisors is building a specialized financial platform for financial advisors, and the company is announcing it raised a $10 million Series A led by Brian Ru and Hemant Taneja at General Catalyst. This funding is on top of the $6 million seed round it raised in 2020 from Detroit Venture Partners, Ludlow Ventures, General Catalyst, and others.
In a released statement, new board member and managing partner at Michigan-based Annox Capital Robert Mylod, puts it well: “We’ve seen a lot of capi...Tags: TC, Tech, Michigan, Detroit, Signal, Patrick Kelly, Hemant Taneja, Signal Advisors, Brian Ru, Annox Capital Robert Mylod, Pat Kelly Co Founder 49 people like this. Like 10 things in tech you need to know todayApril 23, 2021 at 3:24 AM Tags: Google, Amazon, Spacex, Texas, Newsletter, Trends, Tech, Tesla, Nasa, Earth, Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley, Travis Kalanick, WeWork, Mars, Signal 78 people like this. Like Signal's CEO Just Hacked the Cops' Favorite Phone Cracking Tool and Became a LegendApril 21, 2021 at 6:21 PM  Tags: Apple, Science, Software, Computing, Signal, Moxie Marlinspike, Mobile App, Secure Communication, Cellebrite, Cross Platform Software, Computer File, Application Software, Cryptographic Software, Technology Internet, Computer Security Software 139 people like this. Like Signal CEO Hacks Cellebrite iPhone Hacking Device Used By CopsApril 21, 2021 at 3:21 PM Tags: Tech, Signal, Cellebrite, Marlinspike 118 people like this. Like Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customersApril 14, 2021 at 4:20 PM A security lapse at online grocery delivery startup Mercato exposed tens of thousands of customer orders, TechCrunch has learned.
A person with knowledge of the incident told TechCrunch that the incident happened in January after one of the company’s cloud storage buckets, hosted on Amazon’s cloud, was left open and unprotected.
The company fixed the data spill, but has not yet alerted its customers.
Mercato was founded in 2015 and helps over a thousand smaller grocers and specialty food stores ...Tags: Amazon, Security, Food, Ecommerce, New York, Technology, California, Cloud Storage, Cloud Computing, Boston, Los Angeles, Tech, Data Breach, Chicago, United States, Computing 49 people like this. Like |
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