Cybersecurity

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  10 hours ago

  Medibank hackers declare ‘case closed’ as trove of stolen data is released

  TechCrunch - Carly Page

  The cybercriminals behind the Medibank ransomware attack have published what appears to be the rest of the data stolen from the Australian health insurance giant. The attackers, which are believed to be linked to the Russian-backed REvil ransomware gang, posted an update to its dark web blog in the …

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  16 hours ago

  Twitter alternative Hive shuts down its app to fix critical security issues

  TechCrunch - Sarah Perez

  The team at the newly popular Twitter alternative Hive is in over their head. The company has now taken the fairly radical step of fully shutting down its servers for a couple of days in response to concerns raised by security researchers who discovered a number of critical vulnerabilities on Hive, …

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  18 hours ago

  Shield, a communication compliance platform for financial institutions, raises $20M

  TechCrunch - Kate Park

  Two months ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it had fined 16 Wall Street firms more than $1.1 billion for “widespread recordkeeping failures” regarding maintaining electronic communications, contravening federal securities laws. In addition, the SEC is now probing private …

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  1 day ago

  LastPass says it was breached — again

  TechCrunch - Zack Whittaker

  Password manager LassPass said its investigating a security incident after its systems were compromised for the second time this year. LastPass chief executive Karim Toubba said in a blog post that an “unauthorized party” recently gained access to some customers’ information stored in a third-party …

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  1 day ago

  Spyware vendor Variston exploited Chrome, Firefox, and Windows zero-days, says Google

  TechCrunch - Carly Page

  A Barcelona-based company that bills itself as a custom security solutions provider exploited several zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows, and Chrome and Firefox browsers to plant spyware, say Google security researchers. In research shared with TechCrunch ahead of publication on Wednesday, Google’s …

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  1 day ago

  Pangea Cyber wants to simplify security for developers with an API approach

  TechCrunch - Ron Miller

  When developers are creating a new application, they may build security features over time or take advantage of commercial offerings or open source libraries to implement certain security functions such as authentication or secrets management. Pangea Cyber wants to change that with an API-driven …