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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. Company CEO Shridhar Mittal is hoping that the investment will continue to drive that growth.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

Today, many organizations are embracing the power of the public cloud by shifting their workloads to them. Additionally, 58% of these organizations use between two and three public clouds, indicating a growing trend toward multi-cloud environments. 3 We have seen an increase of 15% in cloud security breaches as compared to last year.

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Going to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 is cheaper when you bundle

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AI for SaaS Security Stage : Signal and the Future of Encrypted Messaging The Spyware Industry Is Out of Control. We’re creating more organic networking opportunities where you can experience moments of magic in a variety of settings. SaaS Stage : What’s Next for GitHub? But that’s just the beginning.

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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

TechCrunch

That’s what happened this week with Ro , which laid off 18% of its full-time workforce to “manage expenses, increase the efficiency of [its] organization, and better map our resources to [its] current strategy.”

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Clock ticks for TikTok: RNC and DNC nuke app, US mulls ban

TechBeacon

The app’s alleged spyware tendencies and connections to the Chinese Communist Party are causing some high-profile organizations to ban it. TikTok, millennials’ flavor of the month, is coming under yet more scrutiny this week.

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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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What is Tailgating in Cyber Security

The Crazy Programmer

In this, the hackers follow the authorized person to enter in very restricted place of the organization. Nowadays, you can see several cases of tailgating where hackers and fraudsters steal the organizations’ assets. They may even install spyware in the computer devices of the organizations.

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