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2017 in cybersecurity and privacy news

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The Spanish government, on the other hand, seems to have figured out how to use the Internet against its citizens. Ransomware, a particularly nasty form of malware that locks your computer until you pay off your attackers and has been around for decades, continued to wreak havoc in 2017. Photo by Seth Rosenblatt/The Parallax.

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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

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It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. Like the internet, it is a reality we will interact with, in all parts of life: at home, in the office, in cars, or out in public.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008

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The Uber deck has been floating around the internet for a while; we shared it as a gallery back in 2017 , and these days it isn’t really seen as a good example of how to do a pitch deck. It’s pretty wild to consider that out of all of those operating systems, these days, most of those don’t even exist.

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Mighty Networks raises $50M to build a creator economy for the masses

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The investment brings Palo Alto-based Mighty Networks’ total raised since its 2017 inception to $67 million. . Creators need to own their own community on the internet, where members meet each other and get results and transformation.” . million in new funding.

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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

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Did you get hacked in 2017? In a time when metadata is used by governments to kill their adversaries , and Internet service providers are allowed to sell their customers’ Internet usage to the highest bidder, a good virtual private network goes a long way towards hiding your traffic from surveillance of all kinds.

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Verizon’s VPN: security boon or privacy boondoggle?

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As with any VPN (including that of Avast, which sponsors The Parallax ), Verizon’s new app works by rerouting your Internet traffic to appear to come from another Internet Protocol address. Unlike some other VPNs, including Private Internet Access and NordVPN , it doesn’t work across multiple devices or platforms.

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Fragmentation likely to hinder Android P’s security chops

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But even locking down a long-criticized Android privacy flaw won’t help the operating system beat its biggest security flaw: its own success. Android has long since owned the crown as the world’s most popular mobile operating system, having commanded at least 36 percent market share since 2011. And Android 5.1