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| 02.05.2024 | Cybersecurity Breach at UnitedHealth Group Exposes Vulnerabilities | UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty faced tough questions from senators about the recent cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare. The breach, caused by a lack of multi-factor authentication, allowed hackers to access sensitive data ... |
| 01.05.2024 | UnitedHealth CEO tells Senate all systems now have multi-factor authentication after hack | UnitedHealth Group Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty told senators on Wednesday that the company has now enabled multi-factor authentication on all the company’s systems exposed to the internet in response to the recent cyberattack again... |
| 12.04.2024 | How Ukraine’s cyber police fights back against Russia’s hackers | On February 24, 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine. Since then, life in the country has changed for everyone.
For the Ukrainian forces who had to defend their country, for the regular citizens who had to withstand invading forces and cons... |
| 05.12.2023 | Used by only a few nerds, Facebook kills PGP-encrypted emails | In 2015, as part of the wave of encrypting all the things on the internet, encouraged by the Edward Snowden revelations, Facebook announced that it would allow users to receive encrypted emails from the company.
Even at the time, this was a... |
| 26.05.2020 | How Zoom plans to better secure meetings with end-to-end encryption | As the coronavirus has forced quarantines, there’s been a surge in demand for virtual meeting and video chat apps. Though many such apps have seen an increase in use, Zoom has been one of the top beneficiaries, popular both with individuals... |
| 12.05.2020 | Decrypted: Contact-tracing privacy, Zoom buys Keybase, Microsoft eyes CyberX | As the world looks to reopen after weeks of lockdown, governments are turning to contact tracing to understand the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
Most nations are leaning toward privacy-focused apps that use Bluetooth signals to create a... |
| 08.05.2020 | Zoom Buys Keybase to Add End-to-End Encryption and Improve Privacy | Video chat service Zoom has announced the purchase of secure messaging service Keybase to add scalable end-to-end encryption onto its platform after cybersecurity issues.
Zoom is offering an end-to-end encrypted meeting mode to all paid acc... |
| 07.05.2020 | Zoom adquire startup e anuncia meta para desenvolver criptografia de ponta a ponta | A empresa especializada em comunicação por vídeo Zoom anunciou hoje a aquisição da Keybase, startup que oferece um serviço seguro de compartilhamento de arquivos e mensagens. A aquisição acelerará o plano da empresa de criar criptografia de... |
| 07.05.2020 | Zoom is gaining end-to-end encryption following acquisition of Keybase | As part of its 90-day security focus, Zoom has announced that it has acquired Keybase, an app that features end-to-end encryption to secure chats and file sharing. The Keybase team will help to bring the same security to Zoom.
The lack of e... |
| 07.05.2020 | Zoom Seeks to Deflect Privacy, Security Concerns With Keybase Buy | Zoom, the popular-by-necessity video conferencing service, has acquired crypto key directory Keybase in a bid to bring end-to-end encryption to its paying customers.
The acquisition comes at a time when Zoom has been criticized for privacy ... |
| 07.05.2020 | Zoom acquires Keybase to get end-to-end encryption expertise | Zoom announced this morning that it has acquired Keybase, a startup with encryption expertise. It did not reveal the purchase price.
Keybase, which has been building encryption products for several years including secure file sharing and co... |
| 13.12.2019 | Stellar Tried to Give Away 2B XLM Tokens on Keybase. Then the Spammers Came | Spammers started showing up on Keybase as soon as Stellar announced a giant airdrop on the encryption app. They went away as soon as word went out that the free money era was over.
Or so Max Krohn, CEO of Keybase, told CoinDesk in an interv... |
| 06.12.2019 | Keybase moves to stop onslaught of spammers on encrypted message platform | Enlarge / All scammers, all the time: my Keybase message inbox. reader comments 44 with 36 posters participating, including story author
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| 09.09.2019 | Stellar to Give Away 2 Billion XLM Valued at $120 Million Today | Chat with your friends – and get paid to do it.
The Stellar Development Foundation and messaging service Keybase announced Monday a 2 billion XLM airdrop, the largest in Stellar’s five-year history, worth roughly $120 million. Over the next... |
| 07.04.2019 | Some ruminations on decentralization of identifications | It’s tax season, which has me thinking about one of decentralized technology’s holy grails: self-sovereign identities. It’s a stirring vision, of a world in which control over our driver’s licenses, passports, birth certificates, social sec... |
| 15.10.2018 | Amended Filings Indicate Docker May Be Raising Additional Capital | 12 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Paperwork filed with the SEC indicates that Docker, a leading company in the software containerization space, is raising additional capital. However, it is unclear how much has been raised and how m... |
| 17.09.2018 | Robot-maker Anki Issues “Series 1” Shares In New Funding Round | 53 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Anki, a consumer robotics startup, has raised new external capital, Crunchbase News can report.
The company issued an unusual class of shares in the transactions which indicates the company may have... |
| 18.09.2017 | Keybase launches fully encrypted Slack-like communications tool — and it’s free | Keybase added to its encrypted tool kit today when it launched Keybase Teams, an open source, Slack-like communications tool with end-to-end encryption. Desktop and mobile versions are available for download now.
It may seem like competing ... |
| 18.09.2017 | First They Made OkCupid and SparkNotes. Now They’re Taking on Slack | Chris Coyne and Max Krohn are going for the hat trick.
The two entrepreneurs, who are co-founders of the literature summary site SparkNotes and dating service OkCupid, are working on a startup, Keybase, that on Monday debuted a workplace ch... |
| 07.03.2017 | How to send story tips securely to VentureBeat | Got a big story to share? VentureBeat accepts confidential news tips. Here’s a list of ways to contact our editorial team with sensitive information. We are committed to protecting the identities of our sources.
When submitting a confidenti... |
| 13.01.2017 | Hardly Anyone Seems to Be Using Zcash's Anonymity Features | There's been plenty to gawk at since Zcash's October launch.
Heralded as the world's most anonymous cryptocurrency, Zcash rode a wave of hype with its cypherpunk origin story (complete with its own secretive "ceremony") and an ini... |
| 12.01.2017 | Google’s Key Transparency project aims to ease a tough task in cryptography | Those of us in userland may rarely have to worry about the nuts and bolts of encryption, but they exist nevertheless and must be replaced or updated now and then. Google is taking aim at one particularly stubborn nut, public key verificatio... |
| 10.12.2016 | Op-ed: I’m throwing in the towel on PGP, and I work in security | Enlarge
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| 25.11.2016 | The 10 most popular reports in Endpoints News — so far | A little more than 5 months ago, Arsalan Arif and I launched the main edition of Endpoints News. We hit the ground running and gunning for a daily industry report that would provide some real insights on the deals, data and dr... |
| 23.07.2016 | Bitcoin: The Trust Anchor in a Sea of Blockchains | Bitcoin has a number of properties that give it utility (and thus value) such as trustlessness, permissionlessness, transparency, and immutability.
When you broaden your perspective of bitcoin from a currency and payment system to that of a... |
| 24.02.2016 | VMware exec Martìn Casado joins Andreessen Horowitz following Nicira acquisition | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Andreessen Horowitz is announcing today that it h... |
| 24.02.2016 | VMware exec Martìn Casado joins Andreessen Horowitz following Nicira acquisition | Andreessen Horowitz is announcing today that it has hired Martìn Casado — cofounder and chief executive of hot software-defined networking (SDN) startup Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012 — as a general partner o... |
| 05.02.2016 | Keybase Introduces End-To-End Encrypted File Sharing Service | There’s promising news for individuals and organizations that deal in confidential data. Keybase, the service for sending encrypted messages, has begun to offer a file-sharing feature that is powered by end-to-end encryption, making it cons... |
| 13.08.2015 | New Cracking Tool Exposes Major Flaw in Bitcoin Brainwallets | A white-hat hacker has released a new tool designed to illustrate the ease with which illicit actors can steal bitcoins from brainwallets, a type of bitcoin wallet iteration where passwords are not stored digitally – but in the memory of th... |
| 21.07.2015 | Keybase Raises $10.8M to Develop Encrypted Messaging Using Public Keys | - |
| 15.07.2015 | OkCupid Co-Founders Raise $10.8M for Crypto Service Keybase | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cryptography service startup Keybase has raised $10.8 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to a blog post by founders Max Krohn and Chris Coyne.
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| 15.07.2015 | OKCupid Founders Get $10.8M To Build A Kinder, Gentler Public Key Encryption Tool | What do you for an encore after you founded and sold OKCupid? Well you tackle public-key encryption, of course.
Keybase was the result, and the company announced a $10.8 million Series A investment today led by Andreessen Horowitz.
While it... |
| 14.07.2015 | This Georgetown dropout wants to give you big news in small chunks | As an undergrad at Georgetown, Gillis Baxter found that his generation wasn’t all that plugged in with current events.
“All my friends at Georgetown were incredibly smart,” he said. “None of them were reading the news.”
They found the task ... |
| 12.12.2014 | The Founder’s Guide To Email Security | With the horror of the Sony Pictures breach unfolding in slow motion before us, we are reminded that operational security – OpSec – is absolutely key at any company. Whether or not you traffic in high-value data, the expectation that your s... |
| 22.03.2014 | Enter The Blockchain: How Bitcoin Can Turn The Cloud Inside Out | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| - | Zoom adquire startup e anuncia meta para desenvolver criptografia de ponta a ponta | A empresa especializada em comunicação por vídeo Zoom anunciou hoje a aquisição da Keybase, startup que oferece um serviço seguro de compartilhamento de arquivos e mensagens. A aquisição acelerará o plano da empresa de criar criptografia de... |
| - | Zoom купил американский стартап в сфере кибербезопасности | Сервис видеоконференций Zoom купил блокчейн-стартап Keybase, который работает над технологией сквозного шифрования, говорится в блогах обеих компаний. Условия сделки не раскрываются. Акции Zoom после сообщения о сделке растут в цене на 7,7%... |
