Wi-Fi is how most people connect to the internet most of the time — but from a security standpoint, it’s a remarkably wobbly foundation. We treat Wi-Fi connections like hardened tunnels to wherever we’re connecting on the internet, but there’s nothing inherently private about the signal. Wi-Fi is just radio, and like any radio, the…
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About 6.8 percent of children experience concussion symptoms. Deposit Photos Concussions from sports or accidents are serious medical conditions that deserve attention at any age. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that about 6.8 percent of children had experienced the symptoms of a concussion or a brain injury in 2020. Since a…
More tech antitrust activity: Spain’s competition watchdog has opened an investigation into potential anti-competitive behavior by the Dutch online travel agency giant, Booking.com, following a couple of complaints lodged by the Spanish Association of Hotel Managers and the Regional Hotel Association of Madrid. The national competition regulator said today that it will look into whether…
Eric Tarczynski Contributor Share on Twitter Eric Tarczynski is managing partner and founder of Contrary Capital. More posts by this contributor University entrepreneurship — without the university To predict what 2023 will look like for venture capital, we need to start by understanding where we are now. We’re entering a messy middle where prices continue…
This morning Kanye West announced he’s buying Parler, the annoyingly-named so-called “free speech” platform that ignores the proper French pronunciation of its moniker in service of a poor pun. The deal terms aren’t out there yet, but the startup has so far raised $56 million and I bet it has a tidy little exit on…
Protecting data in the cloud requires companies to secure the data itself but also to guard against cyber attacks, stolen credentials and more. Security specialist StratoKey is announcing what it calls the ‘second generation’ of cloud protection using behavioural analytics tied to defensive countermeasures, as part of an update to its core StratoKey Cloud Access…
We all know that hackers are looking to steal credentials and get their hands on sensitive data, but exactly how does this process work? Researchers at data protection company Bitglass carried out its second ‘Where’s Your Data’ experiment, creating a digital identity for an employee of a fictitious retail bank, a functional web portal for…
Scammers may never need to use deepfakes at scale because there are other, more efficient methods to trick people into giving away personal information and payment data, according to John Shier, senior security adviser for cybersecurity firm Sophos. Speaking to The Register, Shier said deepfakes aren’t that popular among scammers, largely because they aren’t necessary….
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