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Daily Crunch: Byju’s founder chips in toward $800M funding round to reach $22B valuation

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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, March 11, 2022! EU to investigate state use of spyware : The Pegasus mobile spyware is causing headaches in Europe for more than just the folks who found themselves targets of the software. Oh boy was that a week. It was full and busy and, now, finally, over. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Disrupt kicks off tomorrow — check out the highlights

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They are founders who are not only building very interesting companies but have also taken a forward approach toward making noise on social media. Surveillance in Startup Land: Join us for a crash course in the surveillance state — from spyware makers to location data brokers. This is a panel that will be informative and lots of fun.

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

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These companies are involved in activities like planting spyware on web sites to collect users’ personal data. All of the major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) trust certificates that allow a number of untrustworthy companies to act as certificate authorities.

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Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes

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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, February 15, 2022! The pace at which huge rounds – and especially those in the nine-figure range – are put together continues to impress in 2022. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. The latest?

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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

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Amnesty International has released an open source tool for checking whether a phone has been compromised by Pegasus, the spyware sold by the NSO group to many governments, and used (among other things) to track journalists. Scuttlebutt is a protocol for the decentralized web that’s “ a way out of the social media rat race.”

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

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In the summer of 2022, I joined a team of BGP experts organized by the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) to draft a comprehensive report covering the security of the internet’s routing infrastructure. Additionally, had the website used DNSSEC to secure its DNS traffic, the attack would not have succeeded.

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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

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Journalists and activists are increasingly targeted by the wealthy and resourceful who seek to keep the truth hidden, from nation-state aligned hackers hacking into journalist’s inboxes to governments deploying mobile spyware to snoop on their most vocal critics. Runa Sandvik, founder of Granitt. Image: (supplied).

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