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Web3Auth secures $13M from Sequoia India to simplify crypto onboarding and authentication

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Web3 is seen as the future of the internet because it allows people to control their own data and digital assets, but crypto developers have been learning from the past when it comes to onboarding new users. workflows on nearly every traditional internet platform. authentication space. “We Image Credits: Web3Auth.

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How to protect your Ring from hackers (and Amazon partners)

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The Ring doorbell spent much of 2019 getting buzzed by perceived security and privacy issues, from secret agreements with law enforcement agencies to cybersecurity practices that put its users at risk. READ MORE ON SECURING THE INTERNET OF THINGS. Time for a Department of the Internet of Things?

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Copy-Paste Compromises: Threat Actors Target Telerik UI, Citrix, and SharePoint Vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-18935)

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CVE-2019-18935. CVE-2019-19781. CVE-2019-0604. Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX CVE-2019-18935 is an insecure deserialization vulnerability in Telerik UI , a tool to build forms for apps in ASP.NET AJAX. Researchers at BishopFox published a blog post in December 2019 on CVE-2019-18935. Microsoft SharePoint.

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Kenyan startup Wowzi secures $3.2 million from 4DX Ventures, Andela co-founder to expand across Africa

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Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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Is ad fraud a cybersecurity problem?

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Deftly sliding from desktop browsers to mobile devices to smart TVs and other Internet of Things devices, ad fraud is a multibillion-dollar business problem that has been running rampant across the Internet for years. billion and $19 billion in 2019, and Juniper Research concluded that it would cost $42 billion by the end of 2019.

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Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2019-0708 Addressed in Patch Tuesday Updates

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Microsoft has released its May 2019 Security Updates, which includes a fix for CVE-2019-0708, a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Remote Desktop Service. This vulnerability provides attackers with a common attack vector that many internet-facing Windows assets are likely to have running. Background.

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Microsoft’s February 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 99 CVEs Including Internet Explorer Zero-Day (CVE-2020-0674)

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This month’s updates include patches for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office Service and Web Apps, Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool and Windows Surface Hub. November 2019. November 2019. November 2019. Windows 10.

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