Here are MIT Technology Review’s best-performing stories of 2024
Farcaster hype grows, Bluesky opens to the public and SEC’s Hester Peirce is open to new token proposals
Hello and welcome back to the fourth edition of the new and improved TechCrunch Crypto newsletter. Let’s get into the big headlines.
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Researchers say attackers are mass-exploiting new Ivanti VPN flaw
Hackers have begun mass exploiting a third vulnerability affecting Ivanti’s widely used enterprise VPN appliance, new public data shows. Last week, Ivanti said it had discovered two new security flaws — tracked as CVE-2024-21888 and CVE-2024-21893 — affecting Connect Secure, its remote access VPN solution used by thousands of corporations and large organizations worldwide. According […]
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3 Reasons to Increase Your Cybersecurity Protocols in 2024
FCC officially declares AI-voiced robocalls illegal
The FCC’s war on robocalls has gained a new weapon in its arsenal with the declaration of AI-generated voices as “artificial” and therefore by definitely against the law when used in automated calling scams. It may not stop the flood of fake Joe Bidens that will almost certainly trouble our phones this election season, but […]
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A fake app masquerading as password manager LastPass just got pulled from the App Store
A fake app that was masquerading as password manager LastPass on the App Store has been removed, whether by Apple or the fake app’s developer is yet unclear — Apple has not commented. The illegitimate app was listed under an individual developer’s name (Parvati Patel) and copied LastPass’s branding and user interface in an attempt […]
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OpenSea takes the long view by focusing on its UX even as NFT sales remain low
The NFT space has lost a lot of its sparkle over the past few years, but that hasn’t stopped some founders, investors and projects from trucking along in hopes of another surge.
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