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“One important thing to understand about cybersecurity is that it's a mind game,” Ami Luttwak, chief technist at cybersecurity firm Wiz, told TechCrunch in a recent episode of Equity. “As a wave of new technology comes, new opportunities exist [attackers] Start using it. ” The attack surface is growing as businesses rush to embed AI into their workflows through atmospheric coding, AI agents integration, or new tools. AI helps developers ship their code faster, but there are shortcuts and mistakes in its speed, creating new openings for attackers. Wiz, which was acquired by Google for $32 billion earlier this year,…

The idea of ​​hiring a “first critical engineer” is to earn a serious reality check for TechCrunch from 2025-29 October in West Moscon, San Francisco. Join Lauri Moore, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, David Cramer, co-founder and chief product officer of Sentry, and David Cramer, founder and CEO of Warp, to join the Builders Stage for an honest conversation about how developer tools shape early product development. Moore brings deep expertise in AI, infrastructure and developer tools from both the investor and founder perspectives. Launched Sentry as an open source side project in 2012 and expanded to a platform used…

Fintech Checkout.com announced Friday it reached a $12 billion valuation as part of its employee stock buyback program. On the one hand, there are few startups that can achieve big cone status, so $12 billion won't sneeze. It's a valuable company worthy enough to land founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz on Forbes' billionaires list. Meanwhile, it was a short time when Checkout.com was valued at a whopping $40 billion in 2022, as part of the $1 billion Series D round was closed. By the end of the year, Venture World had already hit the bare market and had already cut…

For years, “Know Your Customer” checks have become commonplace on the internet, often by sharing a copy of a government-issued ID and selfies to make sure it's really you, visiting websites and apps, or purchasing certain products. The age verification law currently in effect in the US, UK, Australia and other countries creates an entire industry of ID checking companies that have granted access to the “adult” web. However, when I uploaded my identity details and selfies to my company's servers, I was surprised and feared that this sensitive information could be monetized, lost or stolen in a data breach.…

When data leaked from unsecured cloud servers, hundreds of thousands of sensitive bank transfer documents were published in India, revealing account numbers, transaction numbers and personal contact details. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Upguard discovered a publicly available Amazon host storage server in late August, containing 273,000 PDF documents related to bank transfers of Indian customers. The published files included completed transaction forms intended for processing through National Automated Clearing House or centralized systems used by Indian banks. The data was linked to at least 38 different banks and financial institutions, researchers told TechCrunch. The spilled data was eventually plugged, but…

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When data leaked from unsecured cloud servers, hundreds of thousands of sensitive bank transfer documents were published in India, revealing account numbers, transaction numbers and personal contact details. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Upguard discovered a publicly available Amazon host storage server in late August, containing 273,000 PDF documents related to bank transfers of Indian customers. The published files included completed transaction forms intended for processing through National Automated Clearing House or centralized systems used by Indian banks. The data was linked to at least 38 different banks and financial institutions, researchers told TechCrunch. Security revocation of this nature is not…

In 2025, in TechCrunch, held at Moscone West in San Francisco on October 27-29, Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie takes a stage in confusion due to an outspoken conversation about how the invention actually looks within a public company, and changes (unchanged) in enterprise software. Cloud original evolution The box, released before “The Cloud,” was a buzzword and outperformed the waves of competitors that could not scale or adapt. Aaron Levy's perspective is a rare combination as both a visionary founder and CEO of a long-term public company. He reflects on the most difficult pivots, the biggest surprises, and…

A virus app called Neon offers to record phones and pay for audio so that it can be sold to AI companies, but since its launch last week it has been rapidly rising to the rank of free iPhone apps. App Intelligence Provider According to App Figures, the app already has thousands of users and has been downloaded 75,000 times yesterday alone. Neon pitches itself as a way of creating users by providing call recordings that help train, improve and test AI models. But for now, neon is offline. Security flaws allowed anyone to access their phone numbers, call recordings…

Amr Awadallah, founder of AI startup Vectara, responded two times when he heard about the changes to the H-1B visa program, which increases the application fee for each visa to $100,000. He was not surprised. But he was disappointed. “We can't afford to pay $100,000,” Awadallah told TechCrunch. He employs one employee on the H-1B, and although the new fees apply only to new applications, he believes it is too expensive for many startups, and he hires internationally before setting the price. The H-1B visa was created to allow companies to hire skilled talent from global markets of occupations such…