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Legendary hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek talk cybersecurity and autonomous vehicles at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

Security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek shook the automotive industry in 2015 by remotely hacking a Jeep Cherokee driven by Wired reporter , and willing participant, Andy Greenberg. Perhaps it’s not surprising then that automotive cyberattacks have grown in frequency — up more than 225% in 2021 , compared to 2018.

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Cybersecurity startup Guardio, now with 1M users of its browser extension, raises its first funding: $47M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

The browser extension doesn’t impact on a computer’s or an internet connection’s latency, nor does it “just sit in the background,” CEO Amos Peled said in an interview. “We want to give advice and help to our users. “We want to give advice and help to our users. We believe in positive friction.”

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Window Snyder’s new startup Thistle Technologies raises $2.5M seed to secure IoT devices

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The Internet of Things has a security problem. The past decade has seen wave after wave of new internet-connected devices, from sensors through to webcams and smart home tech, often manufactured in bulk but with little — if any — consideration to security. Security veteran Window Snyder thinks there is a better way.

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Bosch shuts down its app store for AI-powered, internet-connected cameras

TechCrunch

In 2018, appliance conglomerate Bosch created a startup, Security and Safety Things (or “SAST” for short), whose stated mission was to develop a platform to help developers create software for AI-equipped cameras.

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Corsha lands $12M to bring MFA security to machine-to-machine API traffic

TechCrunch

based cybersecurity startup, has secured a $12 million Series A investment to bring multi-factor authentication (MFA) to machine-to-machine API traffic. APIs, which allow two applications on the internet to talk to each other, became central to organizations’ digital transformation efforts during the pandemic.

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Elisity raises $26M Series A to scale its AI cybersecurity platform

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Elisity , a self-styled innovator that provides behavior-based enterprise cybersecurity, has raised $26 million in Series A funding. Cognitive Trust, the company claims, can analyze the unique identity and context of people, apps and devices, including Internet of Things (IoT) and operational technology (OT), wherever they’re working.

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How hackers are approaching medical cybersecurity

The Parallax

READ MORE ON MEDICAL CYBERSECURITY. Triaging modern medicine’s cybersecurity issues How to recover from a health care data breach To prevent EHR breaches, stop using them (Q&A) Ransomware attacks against hospitals: A timeline How weak IoT gadgets can sicken a hospital’s network Opinion: Who foots the bill for medical IoT security?

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