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Bugcrowd has secured $30 million in a Series D funding round launched on the back of strong business growth. On Thursday, the vulnerability disclosure platform said the investment round was led by Rally Ventures and will help the company accelerate its growth, of which there has been a 100% increase in bookings across the US […] More
More than 3.5 million iOS users have installed “fleeceware” apps on their devices, UK security firm Sophos warned in a report published earlier this week. The term fleeceware is a new addition to the cyber-security jargon and describes apps engaging in a new form of online fraud. Coined last year by Sophos researchers, the term […] More
Cryptocurrency exchange Bisq halted trading following a cyberattack leading to the theft of $250,000 worth of virtual currency from users. The decentralized exchange said on Wednesday that trading would be temporarily halted while a hotfix was implemented to resolve a “critical security vulnerability.” As a peer-to-peer network, Bisq users could override this alert and thee […] More
Even the biggest tech companies have major IT disasters because engineers fail to foresee that a seemingly minor event might overload a vulnerable system. If your job involves protecting IT infrastructure, it could well be worth reading Google’s new and free 500-page book detailing numerous failures affecting Google’s internal systems and products like YouTube. […] More
Image: ZDNet, Google Internet web infrastructure company Cloudflare announced plans to drop support for Google’s reCAPTCHA service and move to a new bot detection provider named hCaptcha. Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said the move was motivated by Google’s future plans to charge for the use of the reCAPTCHA service, which would have “added […] More
Singapore is setting aside SG$125 million ($70.89 million) to help its financial services industry (FSI) and fintech firms boost their digital capabilities and drive their deployment of digital tools. The funds also will offer financial support for workforce training and manpower costs. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Wednesday said the package aimed to […] More
One of Taiwan’s top movie and TV download sites, 8maple.ru, has been shut down and the assets of two engineers have been frozen on suspicion of infringing intellectual property rights. According to a statement from Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB), the site’s traffic ranks first among all piracy websites in Taiwan. Movies and TV shows were […] More
Image: Boris Johnson Twitter account Video conferencing service Zoom has released an update for its Linux, Mac, and Windows apps that removes the meeting ID from the app’s title bar. The update comes after the company’s users have often leaked their meeting IDs, and even meeting passwords, when sharing screenshots of their meetings on social […] More
