PortSwigger, the company behind the Burp Suite of security testing tools, swallows $112M

Sometimes the most successful startup ideas come from people building tools to solve their own needs. Such was the case with Dafydd Stuttard, a security expert who goes by Daf.  Nearly two decades ago, living in the small market town of Knutsford in Cheshire in the northwest of England, Daf was working as a security […]

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Odaseva’s founder once solved a security gap for Saleforce’s biggest customer. Now he’s raised $54M to secure all of its users

Cloud services continue to be a weak point for enterprises when it comes to security, so companies providing effective solutions to address this continue to see a lot of interest in the market, both from customers and investors.  In the latest example of that, Odaseva – which focuses on one sole use case: securing Salesforce […]

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Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more

Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away (this one, in fact), a few internet rebels decided that they were tired of the corporate overlords controlling their online lives. Thus, the fediverse was born — an attempt to wrest control of microblogging services, such as Twitter and its ilk, away from centralized […]

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Hacker claims to have 30 million customer records from Australian ticket seller giant TEG

A hacker is advertising customer data allegedly stolen from the Australia-based live events and ticketing company TEG on a well-known hacking forum. On Thursday, a hacker put up for sale the alleged stolen data from TEG, claiming to have information of 30 million users, including the full name, gender, date of birth, username, hashed passwords, […]

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