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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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Today, shall we bask in the glory of tech news together? — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 You got blocked : Sometimes technology does what it’s supposed to. One tool to rule them all : Avalor wants to unify cybersecurity tools by aggregating data, Kyle reports. Lorenzo has more.

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Technology Context From the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)

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For a decade now the cyber security community has been treated to important strategic context coordinated by Verizon in their Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Taking a ten-year look at the data also underscores another chilling observation regarding attack timelines. For more see: Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).

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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

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We have the latest from how the technology world is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a review of the Theranos show, notes from New Zealand venture capital and more. Indeed, data indicates that last year saw a near-record number of new corporate investors joining the startup fundraising fray. PST, subscribe here.

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Daily Crunch: After clinching $12.3B valuation, Brex hires Meta exec as chief product officer

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Today we have new venture funds, spyware news, Brex raising (again), and more. We’re back to 100% of last year’s startup and technology news pace, so we do hope you are rested up. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 11, 2022! It’s going to be a hectic, busy year. The TechCrunch Top 3. At least they are consistent!

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Daily Crunch: After filing for bankruptcy, crypto lender Voyager Digital says it will ‘maintain operations’

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Scraping by : Meta is suing Octopus Data, the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese company alleging this company offered data-scraping services for Facebook and Instagram, Paul reports. So you don’t have to look that up, data scraping is a means of using automated tools to gather data from websites “en masse.” Do you want a ride?

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Forget the Rules, Listen to the Data

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Rule-based fraud detection software is being replaced or augmented by machine-learning algorithms that do a better job of recognizing fraud patterns that can be correlated across several data sources. DataOps is required to engineer and prepare the data so that the machine learning algorithms can be efficient and effective.

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

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India continues to debate the fate of cryptocurrencies : A nation’s regulatory and banking bodies debating blockchain technology and its related tokens is a daily occurrence. It’s worth reading regardless of your priors. The TechCrunch Top 3. This time chip company Intel intends to pay billions for Tower, which, we note, fits into the U.S.

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