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UnitedHealthcare’s Optum left an AI chatbot, used by employees to ask questions about claims, exposed to the internet
Healthcare giant Optum has restricted access to an internal AI chatbot used by employees after a security researcher found it was publicly accessible online, and anyone could access it using only a web browser. The…
Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of ‘red team,’ under new CTO
Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team — known as The Paranoids — over the last year, TechCrunch has learned. Overall, the company has laid off or lost through attrition 40 to 50…
Researchers find security flaws in Skoda cars that may let hackers remotely track them
Security researchers have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the infotainment units used in some Skoda cars that could allow malicious actors to remotely trigger certain controls and track the cars’ location in real time. PCAutomotive, a…
WhatsApp fixes bug that let users bypass ‘View Once’ privacy feature
WhatsApp fixed a bug that allowed malicious users to save pictures and videos that were supposed to be viewed only once and then vanish. In September, TechCrunch reported that a bug in the implementation of…
Snyk hits $300M ARR but isn’t rushing to go public
Several factors might make you think Snyk, the developer security startup most recently valued at $7.4 billion, would be going public soon. It was drafting an IPO prospectus in January 2024 with potential plans to…
A16z-backed Toka wants to help US agencies hack into security cameras and other IoT devices
U.S. government agencies legally hack into cellphones or emails all the time: think of the FBI wiretapping a suspected drug lord or the NSA monitoring emails for terrorism plots. But now, there’s rising interest in…
Tuskira unifies and optimizes disparate cybersecurity tools
Cyberattacks are on the rise, and the victims are high-profile. According to a KPMG survey, close to half of companies with $1 billion or more in annual revenue recently suffered a security breach. Surprisingly, an…
Indian online ID verification firm Signzy confirms security incident
Signzy, a popular vendor offering online “know your customer” ID verification and customer onboarding services to several top financial institutions, commercial banks, and fintech companies, has confirmed a security incident, TechCrunch can exclusively report. The…
GitHub launches $1.25M open source fund with a focus on security
The open source funding problem is very real, but a slew of initiatives have emerged of late, with startups, corporations, and venture capitalists launching various programs to support some of the most critical projects via…