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You won’t run your blue team once a year, so why accept this substandard schedule for your offensive? Cybersecurity teams are under intense pressure to become proactive and find weaknesses in their network before their enemies do so. However, in many organizations, offensive security is still treated as a one-off event. Annual Pentest, Quarterly Red Team Engagement and Compliance pre-deadline audit sprint. It’s not defense. It’s a theater. In the real world, enemies are not active in bursts. Their reconnaissance is ongoing, their tools and tactics are constantly evolving, and new vulnerabilities are often reversed to exploits that work within…
The US government has announced a new AI action plan in line with President Trump’s January executive order, “Removing barriers to AI’s American leadership.” The AI Action Plan forms part of the US goals to guide a new golden age of economic competitiveness and national security. The plan identifies more than 90 federal policy measures across three pillars. It is leading the way in the accelerated innovation, the creation of American AI infrastructure, and the Trump administration takes on international diplomacy and security in the coming weeks and months. This is further divided from Biden management policies to support restrictions…
This article discusses the widespread use of PFA in electronics manufacturing, particularly in semiconductor manufacturing. We provide details on contamination routes, regulated pressures, detection methods, and new strategies for phase-out and lifecycle management. The role of PFAS (1 and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in the electronics sector is extensively scrutinized. Unique chemical properties such as high thermal stability, chemical inertness and hydrophobicity make them essential in a variety of precision driven processes. However, growing environmental sustainability, bioaccumulation behavior, and regulatory attention has led to the manufacturing of electronic devices tracking, quantifying and reducing their presence across the supply chain. When PFA is…
Europol announced on Monday the arrest of suspected administrators of XSS.IS (formerly Damagelab), the infamous Russian-speaking cybercrime platform. The arrests made in Kiev, Ukraine on July 222, 2025 were led by French police and Paris prosecutors, in cooperation with Ukrainian authorities and Europol. The lawsuit is the result of an investigation launched by French police in July 2021. Coupled with the arrest, law enforcement controlled the clear net domain of XSS.IS and greeted visitors with seizure notifications. “The forum with over 50,000 registered users served as a key market for stolen data, hacking tools and illegal services,” law enforcement said.…
July 24, 2025Ravi LakshmananCybersecurity/Websecurity Cybersecurity researchers discover new stealth backdoors hidden within the “Mu-Plugins” directory of WordPress sites, grant threat access and allow any action to be performed. Required plugins (aka MU-Plugins) are special plugins that are automatically activated on all WordPress sites in your installation. By default, it is located in the “WP-Content/Mu-Plugins” directory. What makes them attractive to attackers is that MU-Plugin doesn’t appear in the default list of plugins on the WP-Admin plugin page and cannot be disabled except that it removes plugin files from required directories. As a result, some malware that utilizes this technique can…
When Deepseek, Alibaba and other Chinese companies released AI models, Western researchers quickly realized that they avoided questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party. US officials later confirmed that these tools were designed to reflect Beijing’s topics and raised concerns about censorship and bias. American AI leaders like Openai have pointed out that there is justification to move their technology quickly without too much regulation or oversight. As Openai Chief Executive Chris Lehane wrote in a LinkedIn post last month, there is a contest between “US-led democratic AI and Communism-led China-led dictatorial AI.” An executive order signed by President Donald…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he is “extremely excited” with Openai, the biggest competitor of AI search giants, and as part of his recent partnership, he offers cloud computing resources to train and serve the company’s AI models. “As for Openai, we are extremely excited to partner with them on Google Cloud,” Pichai said Wednesday in Google’s second quarter revenue call. “Google Cloud is an open platform and has a strong history of supporting great companies, startups, AI labs and more. We are extremely excited about our partnership on the cloud side and look forward to investing more in that…
The decline in EV sales was sacrificed by lower average sales prices, lower cash due to regulatory units, and lower solar and energy storage revenues, as well as Tesla’s revenues in the second quarter of 2025, with a 17% increase in revenues for services businesses, including capital generated from the supercharge network, not enough to fill the gap. The company reported revenue of $22.5 billion on Wednesday, down 12% from the same period last year. The company’s first quarter revenue results showed improvement over the first quarter, which generated revenue of $19.3 billion and was able to barely beat analyst…
The Trump administration hopes that AI technology will be seen as an industry leader both in-home soil and overseas. But it also does not want US AI capabilities to empower or burn foreign enemies. That’s quite a balance. If President Trump’s AI Action Plan released on Wednesday is any indicator, the administration appears to be still thinking of a proper course of action to achieve those goals. “Currently, the US is a global leader in data center construction, hardware performance and model computing,” the plan says. “It is essential that the US will use this advantage to a permanent global…
On August 9th, those who previously ran the Startup Incubator Y Combinator events and PR are holding a small invitation-only event with former Andreessen Horowitz social media manager. The To Do List Summit concludes with 80 early-stage founders, and teaches them how to work with the media to run their own social media, organizers promise. The event costs $600. YC fired most of those who took the event between the small layoffs of about a year ago and 2023. These layoffs were surprising at the time, as Y Combinator events have always been a major force in making San Francisco…