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Nord Security, the startup behind NordVPN, raises its first-ever funding, $100M at a $1.6B valuation

TechCrunch

What’s notable here is that Vilnius, Lithuania-based Nord has been bootstrapped for the last 10 years (it was founded in 2012), a state that doesn’t seem to have held back its growth. And having a customer base that was primarily consumers also meant potentially less due diligence around how the product worked.

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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

TechCrunch

” Launched in 2012 by Khoury, Alo Sarv and Tony Rindsberg, Soci’s platform is designed for organizations that have hundreds — or even thousands — of people managing their marketing across various channels. Yelp) and then automatically responds to those reviews. ” There’s probably some truth to that.

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Microsoft’s October 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 103 CVEs (CVE-2023-36563, CVE-2023-41763)

Tenable

An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using social engineering in order to convince a target to open a link or download a malicious file and run it on the vulnerable system. Alternatively, an attacker could execute a specially crafted application to exploit the flaw after gaining access to a vulnerable system.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. Done well, TDD eliminates an entire class of programming errors. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. TDD is difficult to add to legacy codebases. Why TDD Works.

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Alphabet makes cuts, Twitter bans third-party clients, and Netflix’s Reed Hastings steps down

TechCrunch

While our fearless Week in Review leader Greg enjoys parental leave, I’m filling in, curating the latest on the tech news front. Somewhere in the midst of all that, Boston Dynamics demoed an improved bipedal robot, Wikipedia launched a redesign and major universities banned TikTok from their campus networks. Howdy, folks!

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History of Cloud Computing

The Crazy Programmer

Because of the vast availability of VPN, connecting with the network became relatively easy. Google also presented its Google Cloud in 2012, but it finally got available to the public in 2013. Because the concern of data security has risen due to hacking and malware issues. History of Cloud Computing.

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June Patch Tuesday 2022

Ivanti

Updates this month affect the Windows Operating System, O365 applications, Exchange Server,Net, Visual Studio, RDP, Hyper-V and a rare security update to SQL Server as well. due to its Network attack vector and Low complexity to exploit. due to its Network attack vector and Low complexity to exploit.

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