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June 17, 2025Ravi LakshmananThreat Intelligence/Identity Security According to the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), the infamous cybercrime group (UNC3944), known recently as scattered spiders (aka UNC3944), which targets a variety of UK and US retailers, has begun targeting major insurance companies. “Google Threat Intelligence Group is currently aware of multiple US intrusions,” GTIG chief analyst John Hartquist told an email Monday. “We are currently seeing incidents in the insurance industry. Given the history of this actor focusing on the sector at once, the insurance industry should be highly vigilant, especially due to the social engineering schemes targeting their help desks…
The tech industry has said a lot about how AI can transform jobs. Legal startup Crosby, who just came out of stealth with a $5.8 million seed round led by Sequoia, is perhaps the most extreme example of what we’ve seen so far. Crosby doesn’t just make AI software for lawyers, but it does. Crosby is a real law firm that uses AI to provide legal services at an unprecedented speed. Rather than selling the technology to lawyers, Crosby hired lawyers who used internally developed AI software. We mainly sell contract review legal services to startups. The company currently promises…
For many organizations, Active Directory (AD) service accounts are quiet afterthoughts, sticking to the background much after the original purpose was forgotten. Worse, these orphaned service accounts (created for legacy applications, scheduled tasks, automation scripts, or test environments) often remain active with unofficial or old passwords. It’s not surprising that advertising service accounts frequently circumvent daily security surveillance. Overwhelmed by daily demands and prolonged technical debt, security teams can often overlook service accounts (not linked to individual users and rarely scrutinized) and quietly disappear into the background. However, this obscurity becomes a major target for attackers looking for stealthy ways…
Conference Needs, the Event Industry Foundation, has resigned after serving as the maximum permit for two years, and announced changes at the top of its management structure. He has been replaced by Vice-Chair Rene Kogan, who has served as a committee member for nine years, and has recently focused on fundraising and six years of Vice-Chair. The changes were announced at this week’s annual showcase at Spencer House in London. This was announced when sponsors, fundraisers, advocates and beneficiaries learned about conference needs activities over the past 12 months. Pernham said the role was “the most fulfilling and rewarding chapter…
A hit in mid-June will win the business with the brand looking ahead and event agents that can reach the curve. Whether you’re nailing the Q3 experience or locking a premium slot for Christmas, now is the time to be bold, strategic and aggressive. Here are five ideas that the event agents should be pitching now: 1. Q3 Brand Activation Think about it: energy back to school, late atmosphere, autumn refreshment. Now is the sweet spot to pitch activations for bold brands that will land by the end of the third quarter. Perfect for FMCG, fashion and tech brands want…
Integrating a large number of communication technologies could promote remote control of precision robots. Despite its undeniable utility, communication networks are known to experience latency and sometimes fail, which makes them less reliable for use cases with zero resistance to failure. Predict-6G leverages the synergy of Ethernet, cellular, and WiFi, and connects them through logic overlays to create a reliable and decisive network that can provide time-sensitive network (TSN) services. The latter includes the connectivity industry, which allows remote control of devices on factory floors, improves operational health and safety, and reduces OPEX through centralized command and control. The key…
The future of Cheltenham Playhouse, a Grade II registered community theater, was given an important reprieve after winning £50,000 through a dynamic fundraising campaign. Earlier this year, the theater’s newly appointed councillor warned of “serious” financial situation and “high risks” of closures due to serious losses that have occurred over the past two years. With increased operating costs and no deep financial reserves being provided, the survival of the venue, celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2025, was at risk. In response, a fundraising campaign was launched in May 2025, appealing to the public, the arts community and local institutions to…
June 17, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerabilities/Enterprise Software Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three security flaws on the popular Sitecore Experience Platform (XP), which may be chained to achieve pre-recognized remote code execution. Sitecore Experience Platform is enterprise-oriented software that provides users with tools for content management, digital marketing, and analysis and reporting. The list of vulnerabilities that have not yet been assigned is: After using hardcoded credentials, remote code execution after passing through path traversal, Sitecore PowerShell extension Watchtowr Labs researcher Piotr Bazydlo said the default user account, “Sitecore\Servicesapi,” has a single character password that is hard-coded in “b.” Although the user does…
Ransomware is a very coordinated and widespread threat, and traditional defenses are increasingly struggling to neutralize it. Today’s ransomware attacks target the backup infrastructure, initially at the last line of defense. Before locking up the production environment, cybercriminals criminals criminals hang up their ability to chase and recover back up, increasing the likelihood of ransom payments. In particular, these attacks are carefully designed takedowns of your defense. Threat actors disable backup agents, delete snapshots, change retention policies, encrypt backup volumes (particularly those that are accessible to the network), and exploit vulnerabilities in the integrated backup platform. They are no longer…
A groundbreaking moment in European weather surveillance has arrived as the Meteosat-12, the first imaging satellite of the Meteosat Third (MTG) program. Currently located above the 0° longitude equator on the Gulf of Guinea, this advanced satellite is poised to change the way meteorologists observe and predict in Europe, Africa and surrounding oceans. Replacing the Meteosat-10 with its primary operational role, Meteosat-12 marks the beginning of a new chapter in EumetSat’s mission to enhance global weather monitoring, forecast accuracy and climate analytical capabilities. It will leap forward to Earth observation technology The Meteosat-12 Orbit Earth, released on December 13th, 2022,…