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YC-backed Malloc wants to take the sting out of mobile spyware

TechCrunch

Mobile spyware is one of the most invasive and targeted kinds of unregulated surveillance, since it can be used to track where you go, who you see and what you talk about. And because of its stealthy nature, mobile spyware can be nearly impossible to detect. “We already know applications that are spyware.

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Liberty Strategic Capital nabs majority stake in mobile security startup Zimperium for $525M

TechCrunch

In fact, last year the company discovered spyware called PhoneSpy in 23 Android apps designed to steal data. The company covers three parts of the mobile market looking at device security, mobile applications security and mobile threat intelligence.

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Going to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 is cheaper when you bundle

TechCrunch

Head to the Builders Stage for panels and interviews focused on the nuts and bolts of building and funding new tech enterprises — including these: What Do You Need to Raise a Series A Today? AI for SaaS Security Stage : Signal and the Future of Encrypted Messaging The Spyware Industry Is Out of Control.

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

TechCrunch

To achieve enterprise sales success, tailor your approach to CIOs. But for enterprise startups, that presents a special problem. To achieve enterprise sales success, tailor your approach to CIOs. And there was even more, of course: MyPlace raised nearly $6 million for a home-sharing social network, Apollo.io Big Tech Inc.

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Auto Remediation of GuardDuty Findings for a Compromised ECS Cluster in AWSVPC Network Mode

Dzone - DevOps

Summary It is of utmost importance for enterprises to protect their IT workloads, running either on AWS or other clouds, against a broad range of malware (including computer viruses, worms, spyware, botnet software, ransomware, etc.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

7 With the vast majority (estimated around 85%) of Internet traffic encrypted, there is exponential growth in security risks posed by encrypted channels that can hide harmful content such as viruses, spyware, and other malware challenging security teams to secure an increasingly distributed enterprise and avoid costly repercussions.

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

TechCrunch

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. TechCrunch writes that Sorenson backed some 30 enterprise startups with its first capital pool. The TechCrunch Top 3. Yep, more of the same.

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