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DNSFilter acquires iOS firewall app Guardian to expand its web-based threat detection tech

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DNSFilter acquires iOS firewall app Guardian to expand its web-based threat detection tech
DNSFilter acquires iOS firewall app Guardian to expand its web-based threat detection tech

DNSFilter, a Washington, D.C.-based provider of DNS-based web content filtering and threat protection, has announced it’s acquiring Guardian, a privacy-protecting firewall for iOS. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Guardian was founded in 2013 by Will Strafach, a security researcher and former iPhone jailbreaker who in 2017 discovered that AccuWeather was secretly sending […]

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