Debunking the myths of why venture investors don’t fund diverse startups • TechCrunch

People can never land on a word to explain what is happening to women and minorities within venture. Are such founders overlooked or undersought? Underestimated and underrepresented? Marginalized? Discriminated against? Or just ignored? The excuses used to justify these sobriquets are equally scattered. Women received just 1.9% of all venture capital funds last year because…

Roaming Mantis Spreading Mobile Malware That Hijacks Wi-Fi Routers’ DNS Settings

Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Mobile Hacking Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the…

How to watch The Bachelor 2023 online: Season 27 premiere date and time

Everything’s coming up roses because it’s almost time to watch The Bachelor 2023 online. Zach Shallcross is in the spotlight in The Bachelor season 27, after previously vying for Rachel Recchia’s heart on her dual season of The Bachelorette with Gabby Windey.  The 26-year-old tech executive, who currently lives in Austin, self-eliminated during the fantasy…

A new kind of PE fund plans to roll-up German startups into potential unicorns and bigger exits • TechCrunch

European startups have always suffered from the perennial startup problem: how to exit? However, in Europe the problem has always been particularly acute. How many large European industrial or corporate giants acquire or acqu-hire? Not that many and not nearly enough. It’s part of the reason so many European startups end up heading to the…

Gamaredon Group Launches Cyberattacks Against Ukraine Using Telegram

Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber War / Cyber Attack The Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Gamaredon has continued its digital onslaught against Ukraine, with recent attacks leveraging the popular messaging app Telegram to strike military and law enforcement sectors in the country. “The Gamaredon group’s network infrastructure relies on multi-stage Telegram accounts for victim…

Best Antivirus for Mac 2023

Macs may be a far less tempting target for malware and viruses, but they’re not immune from attack. Even if you don’t care about adware or being used as means to infect users on other platforms, it’s still possible to fall victim to ransomware, or password theft. Accordingly, good antivirus for Mac software will protect…