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Disrupt kicks off tomorrow — check out the highlights

TechCrunch

Have a look at the agenda for times and stage locations and then fire up your event app, build your schedule and start connecting and networking with other attendees. How to Build Your Early VC Network — Turning Social Capital into Financial Capital: If you haven’t heard of Nik, Josh or Gefen, where have you been?

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

TechCrunch

And there was even more, of course: MyPlace raised nearly $6 million for a home-sharing social network, Apollo.io Yet more spyware is out there, stealing your data : Sadly, the name of the Android spyware that is sucking up folks’ information is called TeaBot, which is a super-cute moniker.

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Even North Korea has an antivirus program—but it’s used for spying

The Parallax

Researchers announced on May 1 that when they inspected the ingredients of the North Korean antivirus software for Windows computers, they found a mix of spyware and old code stolen from an antivirus vendor. Jaku is a known spyware-botnet combination, spread over BitTorrent.

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9 Types of Phishing and Ransomware Attacks—And How to Identify Them

Ivanti

is a social engineering tactic that uses deception to steal an end user’s credentials and other personal information. The most common phishing delivery tactics are email and attachments, text and multimedia messages, telephone and malicious advertisement networks. What is phishing? Learn more.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

During the leak, a large portion of the internet’s traffic was redirected to AS7007, where it overwhelmed its networking equipment and was dropped. Large-scale origination leaks like these have become less frequent in recent years due to increases in the automation of router configuration in topologically-central networks.

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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Amnesty International has released an open source tool for checking whether a phone has been compromised by Pegasus, the spyware sold by the NSO group to many governments, and used (among other things) to track journalists. Calico is a Kubernetes plugin that simplifies network configuration. . Web and Mobile. Miscellaneous.

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A Look at the 5 Most Common Types of Cyberattacks

Tenable

There's also the interruption of business to consider, as well as damage to the network and IT infrastructure — both of which can seriously hurt your organization's financial bottom line. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), the vast majority of data breaches in the U.S.

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