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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

CIO

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. According to reports, MGM and Caesars were both customers of identity management company Okta. According to reports, the hacker groups identified as BlackCat/ALPHV and Scattered Spider are behind these attacks.

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Twitter exposes secrets, FTC clamps down on review hijackers and Android 14 arrives

TechCrunch

It’s Week in Review (WiR) , the (more or less) regular newsletter that recaps the top stories from the past few days written by the talented TC team. Hijacked reviews: The U.S. GaeaStar , a startup based in Berlin and San Francisco, thinks it can do better with just clay, water, salt and sand, Harri reports.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower CTO

Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? What’s the state of those systems? If so, will you also have your own account system? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks?

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

TechCrunch

With that in mind, Sesamm enables businesses to track textual data from across the web — including news portals, NGO reports and social networks — and convert this into actionable insights. Elsewhere, private equity firms can use Sesamm for due diligence on potential acquisition or investment targets.

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Gen Z social app Yubo rolls out age ‘estimating’ technology to better identify minors using its service

TechCrunch

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users.

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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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Analytics operating system Redbird makes data more accessible to non-technical users

TechCrunch

Redbird, formerly known as Cube Analytics, serves as an analytics operating system by connecting all of an organization’s data sources into a no-code environment that non-technical users can use to perform analysis, reporting and other data science tasks. The New York-based startup announced today that it has raised $7.6