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The cybersecurity world is full of technical lingo and jargon. At TechCrunch, we have been writing about cybersecurity for years, and even we sometimes need a refresher on what exactly a specific word or expression means. That’s why we have created this glossary, which includes some of the most common — and not so common…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced criminal charges against three hackers working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), accusing the trio of a four-year-long hacking campaign that included this year’s hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. On Friday, U.S. prosecutors published an indictment accusing Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, and Yasar (Yaser) Balaghi of…
Earlier this week, some U.S. customers of Kaspersky’s antivirus were surprised to find out that the Russian-made software disappeared from their computers and had been replaced by a new antivirus called UltraAV, owned by American company Pango. The move was the result of the U.S. government’s unprecedented ban on Kaspersky, which prohibited the sale of…
The Tor Project is merging operations with Tails, a portable Linux-based operating system focused on preserving user privacy and anonymity. The merger comes against a backdrop of ongoing digital surveillance and regulatory manoeuvres to break end-to-end encryption, while censorship of online services also remains firmly on the global agenda. Tails will be incorporated “into the…
OpenAI’s official press account on X appears to have been compromised by the same cryptocurrency scammers who did the same with company leadership in previous months. Late Monday afternoon, OpenAI Newsroom, an account OpenAI recently created to spotlight product- and policy-related announcements, posted about a supposedly new OpenAI-branded blockchain token, “$OPENAI.” “We’re very happy to…
Sandvine, the makers of surveillance-ware that allowed authoritarian countries to censor the internet and spy on their citizens, announced that it is leaving dozens of “non-democratic” countries as part of a major overhaul of the company. The company, which was founded in Canada, published a statement on Thursday, claiming that it now wants to be…
Qualcomm, which makes chips for smartphones, said it will lay off 226 workers in San Diego later this year, according to a California WARN notice published this week. The layoffs, which were first reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune, will take effect the week of November 12. The layoffs affect employees at 16 facilities across…
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100 million to further strengthen U.S. cybersecurity, addressing what he sees as a growing threat from foreign governments, he tells the WSJ. Half the funds will focus on protecting power grids and other infrastructure from cyberattacks; half will be earmarked to educate people about so-called cybersecurity hygiene. Newmark,…
Discord, one of the largest group chat apps in the world, announced on Tuesday that audio and video calls inside the platform will now be end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), meaning even Discord won’t know what users in those conversations talk about. In the last 10 years, end-to-end encrypted chat went from being a rare exception —…
EasyDMARC, a B2B SaaS startup out of Armenia that aims to simplify email security and authentication, said it has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by New York-based Radian Capital. DMARC is a technical standard that is designed to protect the senders and recipients of email from spam, spoofing and phishing. This “Domain-based…