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TechCrunch+ roundup: Technical due diligence, web3’s promise, how to hire well

TechCrunch

“It’s still much easier to develop a Web 2.0 app simply because the ecosystem is mature and enjoys a large and thriving developer community,” says Devin Abbott, who specializes in design and development tools, React and web3 applications. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence.

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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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API Security is More Than Testing

Xebia

The following advice is based on my years of testing and monitoring for issues as a security engineer, and implementing APIs as a developer. Invest in Application Security early When thinking about the risks we’re willing to accept, making a decision late in the development phase can be costly.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Data due diligence Generative AI especially has particular implications for data security, Mann says. Feed in your entire Slack or Teams history and you may end up with responses like, “I’ll work on that tomorrow,” which would be perfectly appropriate from human employees but aren’t what you expect from a gen AI system.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: How To Boost the Cybersecurity of AI Systems While Minimizing Risks

Tenable

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), said in a statement that the report will help support “secure by design” AI development and deployment. “As

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Razor’s Edge Ventures closes $340M fund as it looks to invest in defense startups

TechCrunch

It exceeded the initial target of $250 million, the firm notes, and will target companies developing autonomous systems, space technologies, cybersecurity, AI and machine learning, digital signal processing and other aerospace and defense technologies. For example, Razor’s Edge recently invested in Corsha , a Washington, D.C.-based

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SMBleed (CVE-2020-1206) and SMBLost (CVE-2020-1301) Vulnerabilities Affect Microsoft SMBv3 and SMBv1

Tenable

The first version of the SMB protocol (SMBv1) was developed at IBM by Barry Feigenbaum in 1983 and it was eventually implemented in Microsoft Windows in 1992. However, after reviewing all the changes, they decided that marking this release as a minor revision “doesn’t do justice [sic] the work that has gone in.” Server Message Block.