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March 15, 2017
Check your kid’s phone for this app, ASAP: Wishbone. This popular quiz app for kids, tweens and teens has been hacked, according to a report from Motherboard out…
Read articleMarch 6, 2017
Okta, the $1.2 billion identity management startup for enterprises that some tip for an IPO this year, has made an acquisition of sorts to expand one of its newer…
Read articleFebruary 22, 2017
MobileIron, which went public in 2014, has been known mostly for helping large companies manage mobile devices, especially in a time when people tend to bring their own.…
Read articleFebruary 16, 2017
If I gave you my phone right you’d be able to figure out a lot of stuff about me. If I didn’t unlock it you’d see some of…
Read articleFebruary 14, 2017
Open Whisper Systems, creator of encrypted communication platform Signal, released an update today as an open beta to enable encrypted video calling. The app previously offered fully end-to-end…
Read articleFebruary 13, 2017
For better or worse, drones are about to become a lot more prevalent in US airspace. The FAA expects sales of drones to spike domestically from 2.5 million…
Read articleFebruary 9, 2017
A few years ago, using containers to run your applications came with a number of security tradeoffs compared to using virtual machines. As enterprises started adopting various container…
Read articleFebruary 5, 2017
Messaging apps can amass a lot of user data over time including everything from personal photos and videos users have shared to records of who they talk to most, where…
Read articleJanuary 31, 2017
It’s time to actually make the world a better place. Silicon Valley was birthed from an existential threat to the world. Nazi radar defense technology was decimating the…
Read articleJanuary 24, 2017
Israel is home to around 450 active startups in the field of cybersecurity, according to a recent report in Reuters. Now, the one with perhaps the most distinctive…
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