Mobilisafe promises mobile device security (without spying on employees)

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It’s been just over a year since stealthy Mobilisafe came on to the scene with backing from Madrona Venture Group and John Stanton’s Trilogy Equity Partnership. But the Seattle startup, led by former T-Mobile software architects Giri Sreenivas and Dirk Sigurdson, is finally taking the wraps off its new mobile security service today. And what have the engineers been… Read More…

Mobile data security startup Datacastle locks in $2.4M

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Fast-growing Datacastle has reeled in $2.4 million in fresh financing, and is on the prowl for more as the Seattle startup looks to catapult even deeper into the hot market of mobile data protection. The new funding was provided by existing investors CM Capital and Haag Investments, both of Australia. Founder and Chief Technology Officer… Read More…

Washington AG settles with alleged Facebook ‘likejacker’

Rob McKenna, left, and Craig Clark, Facebook lead litigation counsel, announced the case at a news conference in January.

The Washington State Attorney General’s Office today announced a settlement in a case brought earlier this year against a company accused of tricking Facebook users into clicking the “like” button and giving their personal information under false and misleading pretenses. The practice, known as “likejacking,” allegedly lured Facebook users into clicking through and giving personal… Read More…

Latest in mobile security: Introducing the ‘scream tone’

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Have you ever got that sinking feeling after losing your cell phone? Wanted to scream or howl like a wolf? Now, T-Mobile’s Android customers can do just that through a new security featured dubbed “Scream Tones,” loud and obnoxious sounds that users can activate in order to track down a lost or stolen phone or… Read More…

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen victim of identity theft

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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has become the subject of identity theft, with a an AWOL U.S. soldier in Pittsburgh charged with changing the address on a Seattle bank account owned by Allen and attempting to redirect funds to a personal account. Brandon Lee Price allegedly changed the address on a Citibank account owned by Allen… Read More…

Microsoft’s goal to ‘disrupt,’ not just take down, Zeus botnet

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It’s a seemingly unending battle. Botnets get put up by bad guys, taken down by good guys and are replaced presumably by either the same or newer bad guys. But Microsoft’s highly publicized leadership role in last Friday’s take down of several botnets using Zeus malware is being called “unprecedented” — by Microsoft itself. In… Read More…

Video: A glimpse inside Microsoft’s high-tech Global Security Operations Center

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On the Microsoft campus this week, hundreds of law enforcement and public safety officials are gathering for the company’s Worldwide Public Safety Symposium. The event includes a chance to check out Microsoft’s Global Security Operations Center, one of three facilities around the world that coordinate the safety and security of the company’s facilities, and more… Read More…

iWitness: This iPhone app fights crime by recording incidents and dialing 911

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It’s happened to all of us. You’re walking alone and you get that creepy feeling that someone is watching or tracking your movements. You feel unsafe, and you’re not sure what to do, so you clutch your mobile phone. Greg Heuss wants to turn that fear into a situation of empowerment with iWitness, an iPhone… Read More…

Lost your phone? Chances are someone is picking through your personal information

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In 1995, Reader’s Digest conducted a fascinating experiment in which the magazine placed 120 wallets in 12 cities across the country, and then tracked which communities had the highest return rate of the wallets to their rightful owners. I was always proud of the fact that Seattle was the most honest cities of the bunch,… Read More…

Stealth startup CrowdStrike wants to obliterate security threats, raises $26M

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George Kurtz has a deep affinity for Seattle, previously working as a consultant at Microsoft and raising cash for his first startup, Foundstone, from Kirkland’s OVP Venture Partners. So, when the former McAfee chief technology officer was looking for a place to recruit top engineers for his new company, CrowdStrike, he immediately turned to Seattle. The… Read More…