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Backed by Sequoia Southeast Asia, SquareX protects web users with disposable browsers

TechCrunch

The Singapore-based cybersecurity startup announced today it has raised $6 million in seed funding from Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia, which it will use on R&D engineering and its go-to-market plans. Ramachandran said SquareX is intended as a alternative to VPN, anti-virus, anti-malware and other endpoint security solutions.

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Window Snyder’s new startup Thistle Technologies raises $2.5M seed to secure IoT devices

TechCrunch

The Internet of Things has a security problem. The past decade has seen wave after wave of new internet-connected devices, from sensors through to webcams and smart home tech, often manufactured in bulk but with little — if any — consideration to security. has no federal law governing basic IoT security standards.

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Software supply chain security is broader than SolarWinds and Log4J

TechCrunch

Previously he was staff software engineer and lead for Google’s Open Source Security Team (GOSST). Log4J epitomizes the garbage-in, garbage-out problem of open source software: If you’re grabbing no-warranties code from the internet, there are going to be bugs, and some of these bugs will be exploitable. Dan Lorenc. Contributor.

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3 Cybersecurity Technologies You Should Know

The Crazy Programmer

Cybersecurity is more critical than ever in today’s modern world, especially with news of ransomware attacks and other forms of malware on the rise. Modern-day internet users need to ensure they are protected, and companies should also set cybersecurity protocols to help keep their systems secure from threats.

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The Importance of Having Proper DMARC Records

The Crazy Programmer

Since then, the use of DMARC has grown and expanded throughout the internet. DMARC is becoming more and more accepted by email marketers as a means of enhancing internet security and enhancing email delivery. All major Internet service providers (ISPs) presently support DMARC. Image Source.

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Dealing with MITRE ATT&CK®’s different levels of detail

Lacework

ATT&CK serves as a common language to various security teams, including Red Teams, Forensics Engineers, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Teams, etc. In this blog post, we attempt to answer the question: from the perspective of a Detection Engineering team, which techniques do we need to focus on and which can we safely ignore?

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO

Open source is great,” adds Val Marchevsky, head of engineering at Uber Freight. “I A model trained on, say, an archive of flat earth conspiracy theories will be bad at answering science questions, or a model fine-tuned by North Korean hackers might be bad at correctly identifying malware. I find open source extremely valuable.”