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CyDeploy wants to create a replica of a company’s system to help it test updates before pushing them out — catch it at Disrupt 2025

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For any company using software, there is often a difficult balance between patching systems as quickly as possible to prevent cyberattacks while also making sure the updates don’t break how those systems work.  That’s where the startup CyDeploy wants to help.   The company’s founder, Tina Williams-Koroma, explained to TechCrunch that the idea of CyDeploy […]

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U.S. government accuses former L3Harris cyber boss of stealing trade secrets

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The U.S. government has accused a former executive at defense contractor L3Harris of stealing trade secrets and selling them to a buyer in Russia, according to court documents seen by TechCrunch.  On October 14, the Department of Justice accused Peter Williams of stealing eight trade secrets from two unnamed companies. The DOJ made the allegation

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Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with government spyware 

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Earlier this year, a developer was shocked by a message that appeared on his personal phone: “Apple detected a targeted mercenary spyware attack against your iPhone.”   “I was panicking,” Jay Gibson, who asked that we don’t use his real name over fears of retaliation, told TechCrunch.   Gibson, who until recently built surveillance technologies for Western

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Amazon identifies the issue that broke much of the internet, says AWS is back to normal

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An outage on Monday affected web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), which took out vast swathes of the web, including websites, banks, and some government services. On Monday afternoon, the company offered an update on the cause of the issue and said it was working to restore services. At 6:01 PM ET, Amazon said

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Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

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Amazon’s surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with law enforcement. Now, agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with “evidence collection and investigative work.” Flock cameras work by scanning the license plates and other

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Satellites found exposing unencrypted data, including phone calls and some military comms

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Security researchers have discovered that as many as half of all geostationary satellites in Earth’s orbit are carrying unencrypted sensitive consumer, corporate, and military information, making this data wide open to eavesdropping. The researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland spent $800 on an off-the-shelf satellite receiver and pointed it at the

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Homeland Security reassigns ‘hundreds’ of CISA cyber staffers to support Trump’s deportation crackdown

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reassigning hundreds of employees across several of its agencies to assist in the Trump administration’s broad immigration crackdown, and will dismiss staffers who refuse to comply, according to news reports. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the department moved staffers from the U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA, many of whom focus

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Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors

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Israeli spyware maker NSO Group has confirmed to TechCrunch that a U.S. investment group has acquired the company.   NSO spokesperson Oded Hershowitz told TechCrunch on Friday that “an American investment group has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership.”  Confirmation of the deal came soon after Israeli tech

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Italian businessman’s phone reportedly targeted with Paragon spyware

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A prominent Italian businessman was targeted with Paragon spyware, according to local news reports. On Thursday, Italian online investigative website IrpiMedia and newspaper La Stampa reported that Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone was among around 90 people who received a notification from WhatsApp in January, alerting him that he had been targeted with spyware made by Paragon

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