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February 11, 2025Hacker NewsSoftware Security/Threat Intelligence Imagine you are considering a new car for your family. Before purchasing, we will assess its safety rating, fuel efficiency and reliability. You may take it to a test drive to ensure it meets your needs. The same approach must be applied to software and hardware products before integration into your organization’s environment. To avoid purchasing a car without knowing its safety features, you should not deploy software without understanding the risks of implementing it. Rising threat of supply chain attacks Instead of attacking an organization head-on, cybercriminals know that they can infiltrate the…
Venture capitalists gobbles term sheets for startups that exercise artificial intelligence, but when it comes to funding a wider range of technology, they’re doing fussy things. According to new figures from Analytics Firm Dealroom, the AI startup raised $110 billion last year. At the same time, private companies across the technology spectrum (startups and scale-ups) raised $227 billion in 2024, down 12% from 2023. Dealroom founder Yoram Wijngaarde has been analyzing and counselling in the tech industry for decades. Marketplace had a barnstorming moment in the late 1990s and early 2000s in terms of investor attention, but nothing came to…
February 11, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Cyber Attacks Threat officials have observed an increasingly popular Clickfix technology to provide a remote access trojan named NetSupport Rat since early January 2025. Net support rats that are normally propagated through fake websites and fake browser updates, have full control over the victim’s host to attackers, monitor the device’s screen in real time, and control the keyboard and mouse commands that allow for malicious releases and execution, uploading and downloading files. Originally known as Netsupport Manager, it was developed as a legal remote IT support program, but was later reused by malicious actors, targeting organizations, screenshots,…
Northumberland manufacturers have secured support for UK Export Finance (UKEF) and Santander UK before taking on new business to develop critical data centres. Salem Tube has been trading since 1992 and traditionally serves the energy sector, but it takes on more and more orders from data center developers. As the AI and cloud data storage markets grow rapidly, Salem has undertaken more and more contracts in this area. Why are data centers so important as technology evolves? Data centers centralize the organization’s IT operations and equipment for the purpose of storing, processing and disseminating data and applications. Data centers are…
Police say Taliban security guards were one of those killed in the attacks that had not yet been charged.The bombs killed at least five people and injured seven people in northeastern Afghanistan, local police report. The explosion took place at 8:35am (04:05 GMT) on Tuesday near the Kabul Bank branch in Kunduz province. No group has yet to assert responsibility for the explosion. Four other people, including bank security guards and members of civilians and Afghanistan’s dominant Taliban group, were among the people who were killed, police said. “The suicide bombing, which improvised the explosive device, exploded itself,” said Junduz…
Instagram said Tuesday that the platform has introduced a teen account feature. This feature features special protection measures for the safety of users in India, one of the largest markets with over 350 million users. The company introduced teen accounts in the US, UK, Canada and Australia last year. A meta of Instagram users under the age of 16 has migrated their accounts to these new types of accounts with default restrictions. These teen accounts are private accounts by default and have messaging restrictions, content controls, interaction restrictions, time-limited reminders and sleep modes. “In the meta, creating a safer and…
The Canadian government has announced major investments in satellite technology, recognizing the need for a more proactive approach to wildfire management. The Wildfiresat mission, a cutting-edge satellite Earth Observation (EO) program, is set up to revolutionize the way authorities track and fight Canadian wildfires. Environment and Climate Change Minister Stephen Gilby recently awarded a $72 million contract to design and develop Wildfiresat, following a broad and competitive procurement process. I confirmed that it was done. This constellation of seven microsatellites provides real-time intelligence on fire strength, movement, and potential risk zones, allowing fire managers to protect both population and remote…
Populist right-right Reform British Party sends shockwaves across British political establishments, surpassing polls for the first time. A YouGov poll on February 3rd shows that if the election is currently called in the UK, 25% will vote for British reform, 24% will vote for the current governing Labour Party, and 21% will vote for the Conservative Party. got it. According to the poll, 14% vote for the Liberal Democrats and 9% vote for the Green Party. Founded in 2021 as a renewal of the Brexit party, Reform Britain focuses on fighting immigration, housing and what it calls “awakening ideology,” according…
The European Union is courting the private sector as it appears to enhance its computing power to train large-scale AI models. Speaking at the AI Action Summit in Paris on Monday, EU President Ursula von Der Leyen spoke about the potential of homemade AI startups, but developers in the region will expand innovation He said that he needs to have access to enough strong infrastructure to do so. As it meets the possibilities that technology offers, Block is considering changing its models to support AI infrastructure. She suggests that the current high-level push to talent and computing hubs that leverage…
The US President and Kiev are proposing that rare earth transactions can compensate Washington for aid.President Donald Trump suggests that Ukraine is trying to boast that he will quickly end the war, saying that he may “one day be Russian.” Trump made comments in an interview Monday as he discussed the conflict three years ago, which was following the full-scale Russian invasion. Meanwhile, Kiev suggests that Washington is open to an agreement to see compensation for its ongoing military and financial aid. “They may trade, they may not trade. They may one day be Russian, or they may not be…