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Due diligence is a costly business and is not just in the area of investment. Even companies seeking to launch new products or investigate partnerships find and investigate appropriate data, finding and investigating appropriate data, especially when third-party institutions and consultants are involved, to make educated decisions. It takes a few weeks and can be very expensive. A new AI startup called Bridgetown Research says it can speed up the process with an AI agent that can create dents on its cost-based basis and do most of the data collection and research work that leads to due diligence. And as…
Organizations today face relentless cyber attacks, with high-profile breaches hitting the headlines almost daily. Reflecting on a long journey in the security field, it’s clear this isn’t just a human problem—it’s a math problem. There are simply too many threats and security tasks for any SOC to manually handle in a reasonable timeframe. Yet, there is a solution. Many refer to it as SOC 3.0—an AI-augmented environment that finally lets analysts do more with less and shifts security operations from a reactive posture to a proactive force. The transformative power of SOC 3.0 will be detailed later in this article,…
In today’s fast-paced world, digital health platforms have revolutionized how patients interact with health care providers. Imagine your immediate access to your medical records, the ability to effectively consult with your doctor, and receive personalized health recommendations tailored just for you. Not only does these platforms provide greater convenience, they also allow patients to take on a health journey like never before. So how exactly are these platforms changing the landscape of healthcare delivery? The rise of health portals and digital health apps With the widespread adoption of digital health platforms, you can now easily access health portals and digital…
Regions like the US and Europe have doubled the reconstruction of industrial muscle after decades of closing factories and outsourced work to countries like China. So, a rapidly growing Polish startup called Nomagic, which builds robotic arms for picking, packing and moving its logistics business, has raised $44 million in funding. The company plans to use the funds for both technology and business development. This includes disruption of initial efforts to sell the robots in non-European customers, particularly North America. Investments are not only remarkable in terms of their size, but also in who is funding and what is happening…
February 26, 2025Ravi LakshmananLinux/Endpoint Security According to new research from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, universities and government agencies in North America and Asia are targeted by previously undocumented Linux malware, known as automatic color, from November to December 2024. “Once installed, AutoColor allows threat actors to have full remote access to compromised machines, making it extremely difficult to remove without specialized software,” said security researcher Alex Armstrong. This is mentioned in a technical article about malware. Auto-Color is named based on the file name, and the first payload changes post-installation changes. Currently, I don’t know how to reach the…
February 26, 2025Hacker NewsIdentity Protection/Password Security Passwords are rarely evaluated until a security breach occurs. It’s enough to say that the importance of a strong password will only become clear in the face of a weak password. However, most end users don’t know how vulnerable passwords are to the most common password cracking methods. Below are three common techniques for cracking passwords and how to protect them. Brute Force Attack Brute-force attacks are easy and very effective methods for cracking passwords. These attacks involve malicious actors using automated tools and systematically experiment with any possible password combinations through repeated login…
Luke Haywood, Climate and Energy Policy Manager, and Hannah O’Sullivan, Associate Director of Climate and Energy Communications: The European Environment Agency will discuss ensuring a fair distribution of future ETS-2 revenues. In less than a year, billions of euros from the Social Climate Fund (SCF) will land in the pockets of the EU government, but in some countries, heating and transport (ETS-2) to start operations. ) are already asking for delays in carbon pricing. 2027. It is important for policymakers to stick behind one of the most important elements of European green trading. Two factors are important for the ETS-2…
February 26, 2025Ravi LakshmananNetwork Security/Threat Intelligence On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has reported that it was a group of organized crimes tracked as UAC-0173, a remote access trojan horse called DCRAT (aka DarkCrystal Rat), which was tracked as UAC-0173, which involves infecting computers. We have warned about update activities. Ukrainian cybersecurity authorities said the latest wave of attacks, which began in mid-January 2025, had been observed. The activities are designed to target Ukrainian notaries. The infection chain utilizes phishing emails claiming it will be sent on behalf of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice, urging recipients to…
February 26, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have flagged malicious Python libraries in their Python Package Index (PYPI) repository, encouraging unauthorized music downloads from music streaming service Deezer. The package in question is AutomSLC, which has been downloaded over 104,000 times so far. It was first published in May 2019 and is available on Pypi as of this writing. “AutomSLC, which has been downloaded more than 100,000 times, is intended to provide music automation and metadata search, but also embed hardcoded credentials and communicate with external command and control (C2) servers. “We secretly bypass Deezer access restrictions,” Kirill Boychenko said in…
Security researchers warn that data exposed to the internet for a long time will be present in online-generated AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot, long after data became private. According to a new study from Israeli cybersecurity company Lasso, former Github repositories of some of the world’s largest companies have been affected, including those from Microsoft. Lasso co-founder Ophir Dror told TechCrunch that he found content from his own Github repository that appears in Copilot as it was indexed and cached by Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine. Dror said the repository had been incorrectly published for a short time, but has since…