YC-backed African fintech Cleva, founded by Stripe and AWS alums, raises $1.5M pre-seed

Nigerian fintech Cleva, focused on creating a banking platform for African individuals and businesses to receive international payments by opening USD accounts, has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by 1984 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco. Other participants in the round include The Raba Partnership, Byld…

Webinar – Leverage Zero Trust Security to Minimize Your Attack Surface

Jan 08, 2024NewsroomCyber Security / Zero Trust Digital expansion inevitably increases the external attack surface, making you susceptible to cyberthreats. Threat actors increasingly exploit the vulnerabilities stemming from software and infrastructure exposed to the internet; this ironically includes security tools, particularly firewalls and VPNs, which give attackers direct network access to execute their attacks. In…

There are only 72 hours left to get a lifetime of Babbel languages for under $150

Learning a new language has many perks, as Real Simple magazine found that language learning can exercise the brain. No matter your reason, learning a new language can be done quicker than you think with Babbel’s linguist-created platform. For only 72 hours, a lifetime subscription to this top-rated language learning platform is now only $149.97 through January 10. Babbel…

Sea Turtle Cyber Espionage Campaign Targets Dutch IT and Telecom Companies

Jan 06, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Supply Chain Attack Telecommunication, media, internet service providers (ISPs), information technology (IT)-service providers, and Kurdish websites in the Netherlands have been targeted as part of a new cyber espionage campaign undertaken by a Türkiye-nexus threat actor known as Sea Turtle. “The infrastructure of the targets was susceptible to supply chain…