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Israeli App Security Startup Snags $2.3M Seed Round

Many holding tablet with apps flying out against a background of zeros and ones. AppInside, a tool designed to help app developers check for security vulnerabilities, announced a $2.3 million seed round from Boston’s Accomplice today.
When a company commissions an app, they are putting their brand’s reputation on the line when people download it to their tablet or smartphone, Elon Ohevya, co-founder and CEO of AppInside told TechCrunch.
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AlienVault Secures $52M Round With Eye Toward IPO

Concept picture with lock in front of screens to illustrate cyber security. AlienVault, a company that delivers a hybrid threat management solutions combined with a crowd-sourced threat intelligence platform, announced a $52 million investment round today. The company boasts 24,000 registered users with 2200 paying customers and has been adding 300-400 customers every quarter. Investors liked the growth trajectory and decided to pursue a round, company CEO Barmak… Read More

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DataGravity Focuses On Security In Latest Release

DataGravity data information dashboard showing key data about storage array. DataGravity announced version 2.0 of its storage appliance today, which focuses on data security, particularly knowing what files you have and who’s been accessing them. When DataGravity emerged last summer with a new concept of data aware storage, it announced a number of key features, but it found that “customers were gravitating most around security at the point of… Read More

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Go Off-Grid With Silent Pocket’s Leather Goods

Silent Pocket Ever get the feeling someone’s watching you? Of course you do; you use the Internet… So what’s the answer to pervasive tracking technologies? Well, one answer — at least when you’re able to step off grid entirely because you don’t need to use your kit for a bit — is to put your devices (and connected cards) inside a faraday cage to isolate them from… Read More

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Google Now Lets Developers Bring Their Own Security Keys To Compute Engine

5399162987_5d0402e809_o Starting today, developers who use Google’s Compute Engine infrastructure as a service platform will be able to bring their own security keys to the service. Google argues that using these customer-supplied encryption keys, which are now in public beta, give its users more control over their data security.
By default, Google encrypts all of the data on its service with an AES-256 bit… Read More

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Nasty Bug Lets Hackers Into Nearly Any Android Phone Using Nothing But A Message

android It’s like something from a bad movie: eager to learn the details of the bad guy’s plan, the good guys hack his phone armed with little more than knowledge of his phone number. No physical access to the phone, no tricking him into opening some shady application; just a quick message, and bam — they’re in. Alas, that’s essentially how a new Android hack works,… Read More

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Dmail Makes Your Gmail Messages Self-Destruct

Dmail at 4.40.25 PM Have you ever regretted sending an email, and wished you could take it back? Or maybe you’ve worried about sending confidential information over email – especially after seeing the damage a large-scale email hack can cause, like the one that hit Sony Pictures last year? A new “self-destructing” email service called Dmail aims to eliminate these concerns with the… Read More

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