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Galaxy S23 grabs a January update packed with over 70 security flaw fixes

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What you need to know

  • Samsung has started pushing its January 2024 security update to the Galaxy S23, S22, and S21 in Europe.
  • The patch features nearly 75 vulnerability fixes with the majority labeled as “High” priority.
  • Samsung acknowledged its lack of burn-in screen protection measures but it’s unclear if such an update to bring it made it into the January patch.

Samsung is starting to roll out its new year security update a little late to a few of its flagship phones.

According to SamMobile, the January 2024 security patch is arriving for the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S22, and Galaxy S21 series in Europe. Owners of the latest flagship series will find firmware version S91xBXXS3BWL3 when updating at an approximate 400MB download size. Those with a Galaxy S22 should see S90xBXXS7DWL3 while the S21 finds G99xBXXS9FWL9.

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Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product – TechCrunch

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We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products.

That’s where Daily comes in. The company provides APIs so developers can add those features into products or websites using just two lines of code. Use cases include video calls, audio-only apps, webinars, live classes, interactive collaboration, e-commerce, customer support, IoT and robotics.

Since being founded in 2015, the company has amassed a customer list that includes AppFolio, HotDoc, Pitch, Kumospace and Teamflow, and its customers report seeing up to 80% fewer video call errors after using Daily, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily, told TechCrunch via email.

Following an 18-month time period of rapid growth, which included seeing from 10 times to 30 times increase in all the metrics the company tracks — overall traffic volume, freemium sign-ups, paid usage and the number of customers scaling applications on top of the platform — Daily today announced $40 million in Series B funding.

“The most interesting trend we’re seeing is that new use cases for video and audio are showing up every week,” Hultman Kramer said. “We’ve seen the growth of events platforms, new social/spatial video environments, live commerce, live classes, fitness and workout applications, and a huge amount of experimentation in education and tutoring, just to name a few.”

Renegade Partners led the round, which included new investors Heritage Group, Cendana Capital and Sean Rose, and participation from existing investors including Lachy Groom, Tiger Global, Freestyle Ventures, Slack Fund, Root VC, Moxxie, Haystack Ventures, Todd & Rahul’s Angel Fund, David Eckstein and Aston Motes.

The latest round brings total funding to over $60 million, which includes a $4.6 million round raised in May 2020. The company is not sharing its valuation, but Hultman Kramer revealed that valuation stepped up three times with each of the three funding rounds the company raised in the last 18 months.

The global video conferencing market was valued at $5.8 billion in 2020 and is expected to…

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BT tries to crack cyber crime, grabs stake in Safe Security • The Register

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BT is looking to cash in on ever-growing global concerns over digital crime, and has confirmed making a multi million pound investment in US-based cyber risk management firm Safe Security.

The UK telco wouldn’t say how much it has pumped into the US business, which raised almost $50m from investors since its formation in 2012. As part of the deal, BT plans to combine Safe Security’s “SAFE platform” with its own managed security services to provide added protection for its customers in the UK against cyber threats.

What seems to appeal to BT is that Safe Security’s platform allows organisations to run a series of checks of their defences to help them better understand the likelihood of suffering a major cyber attack. Not only does it help to identify gaps in an organisation’s digital defences, it also helps to calculate the cost of any breach.

Martin Courtney, an analyst at research biz Tech Market View, reckons the deal will “augment the telco’s managed security service (MSS) proposition with a cyber risk assessment tool that can help businesses and consumers measure the effectiveness of their existing defences.

“BT also sees the technology as a potential route to market for cyber insurance and other services that could benefit from an accurate appraisal of organisational and individual cyber risk scores in the future,” he added.

The strategic investment is part of BT’s plans to beef up its cybersecurity offering against a backdrop of a growing ransomware threat that over the past weeks has hit Northern Trains ticketing kit in the UK, real estate, finance, and insurance IT firm CloudStar, and SonicWall.

Earlier this month, US President Joe Biden had a phone call with Russia’s President Putin about the worldwide ransomware epidemic, and afterwards told the press the US was prepared to attack the servers used by ransomware criminals who were targeting American businesses and citizens.

Ransomware gang REvil has had some big hits recently – such as exploiting installations of Kaseya’s IT management software to infect…

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Honor Play October security patch up for grabs, still no sign of Android 10/EMUI 10 update – PiunikaWeb

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Honor Play October security patch up for grabs, still no sign of Android 10/EMUI 10 update  PiunikaWeb
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