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

TechCrunch

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. Taking a page from mobile gaming: Retaining mobile app subscribers is harder than it was last year, but paywall optimization and gamified UX can help.

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

TechCrunch

Today we have new venture funds, spyware news, Brex raising (again), and more. Cybersecurity matters to democracy : Spyware built by the infamous NSO Group was “used to spy on three critics of the Polish government,” according to Citizen Lab, TechCrunch reports. Locket, which is tearing up the mobile application charts.

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

TechCrunch

There’s also a neat DeFi event coming up , and TC Sessions: Mobility will feature Nuro co-founder Jiajun Zhu , which is fun as the company is worth $8.6 And there was even more, of course: MyPlace raised nearly $6 million for a home-sharing social network, Apollo.io See you at all three! – Alex. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Daily Crunch: After raising $3M seed, global fintech platform Payday plans to secure licensing in Canada, UK

TechCrunch

Alexa, call Grandma” : A new Amazon capability brings T-Mobile customers into the fold for making and receiving calls via an Alexa-enabled device, Ivan reports. The company provides a way for those working remotely to receive payments in their currency of choice. And with that, we hope you have a Google day!

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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

The digital-rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation and Lookout Mobile Security, which co-authored the report, say they tracked the Dark Caracal phishing campaign across more than 60 websites. “ If you had even a little mobile development experience, [Dark Caracal] could cost less than $1,000.”—Michael

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The importance of Softwares in securing websites.

Xebia

Our company software is there to protect such data and enable the protection of social media websites. It is a collective term that represents viruses, worms, spyware, penetrative software discharges. Mobile Security. Do not leave your mobile phone everywhere. What do they target really?

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Humans Can be Hacked. So Stop Using Passwords, Already!

Ivanti

It’s human nature and we can easily be socially engineered into giving up our precious online user credentials to the bad guys. In the case of Ivanti’s Zero Sign-On , your company can implement a FIDO2 solution by using your managed iOS or Android mobile device as a replacement for the security key. It’s called device-as-identity.

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