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Daily Crunch: Citizen Lab claims Apple’s ‘Lockdown Mode’ helped block spyware attack by hacker group NSO

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In Apple’s case, researchers looking into spyware vulnerabilities said its “Lockdown Mode” was able to thwart the advances of the infamous mercenary hacking provider NSO Group. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. Lorenzo has more. You can sign up here.

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Researchers jailbreak a Tesla, the FCC fines robocallers and WeWork finds itself in trouble (again)

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Also featured are stories about WeWork’s perennial struggles, Google’s Messages app fully embracing RCS, and spyware maker LetMeSpy shutting down after a massive data breach. If you haven’t already, sign up here to get WiR in your inbox every Saturday. Now, on with the recap.

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Fed Tech News Roundup

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Google-style recruiting — even in government FCW (Today) - Hire people who are better than you, and make sure they’re smart and curious, says Google exec Laszlo Bock.Google is famous for its culture of work as play. arms program found vulnerable to cyber attacks ThreatBrief (Yesterday) - Reuters reports that Nearly every U.S.

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

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Programming. Github is looking at voice-to-code : programming without a keyboard. These companies are involved in activities like planting spyware on web sites to collect users’ personal data. Their geography, culture, and national sovereignty could be preserved in a virtual world. What comes after Copilot?

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Zero-Day: Vulnerabilities, Exploits, Attacks and How to Manage Them

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Software vulnerabilities arise due to many reasons like security misconfiguration, programming errors, insufficient logging and monitoring, or simply human error. An attacker who discovers this vulnerability can exploit it via any number of attack vectors, adversely impacting programs, data, computers or a network.

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Attack Vectors: How They Can Harm Your Company

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The infection can take the form of a virus, trojan horse, worm, spyware, adware, rootkit or the infamous ransomware. SQL injection is an attack vector that exploits a security vulnerability in a program’s code. The number of ransomware cases has been steadily increasing since 2016 and now accounts for 10% of all breaches.

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Get your Disrupt day three highlights right here

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Remember, you’ll find all the day’s programs, stage location and times listed in the Disrupt agenda and in the event app. Google’s Maddie Stone and ACLU’s Jennifer Granick join us for a crash course in the surveillance state — from spyware makers to location data brokers. What can you experience today over at the Moscone Center?