BitLocker is a full disk encryption feature for Windows that protects data at rest by encrypting full volumes. This post outlines a privilege escalation or lateral movement technique that uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to hijack specific COM objects of BitLocker using remote manipulation of BitLocker registry keys to execute code under the user's context on a target host. The post also discusses detection opportunities for this attack and Sigma and Windows Defender for Endpoint queries to detect them.
Most security awareness programs achieve dismal completion rates because they use generic scenarios. Huntress Managed SAT [12] builds training from real threat intelligence gathered across 3.7M+ protected endpoints. The result is 98% completion rates and employees who recognize actual threats, not just textbook examples. Get a free trial
YASA (Yet Another Static Analyzer) is an open-source static program analysis project. Its core innovation lies in a unified intermediate representation called the Unified Abstract Syntax Tree (UAST), designed to support multiple programming languages. Built on top of UAST, YASA provides a highly accurate static analysis framework. Users can extend its capabilities by writing custom checkers to perform various program analysis tasks—such as AST queries, data flow analysis, and function call graph analysis—and expose functionality through SDK, declarative query language (QL), or MCP.
Pyarmor is a command-line tool designed for obfuscating Python scripts, binding obfuscated scripts to specific machines, and setting expiration dates for obfuscated scripts.
Inboxfuscation is an advanced inbox rule obfuscation framework for Microsoft Exchange environments. The tool provides sophisticated Unicode-based obfuscation techniques to create stealthy inbox rules that can evade basic detection while maintaining functionality.
Check Point has announced plans to acquire AI security platform Lakera in Q4 2025 to strengthen enterprise defenses against emerging AI threats like prompt injection attacks, data leaks through LLMs, and model manipulation as organizations rapidly adopt generative AI and autonomous agents. Lakera's AI-native runtime protection technology boasts 98% detection rates with sub-50ms latency and less than 0.5% false positives, addressing gaps that traditional cybersecurity tools cannot handle in real-time AI environments.
WatchGuard has released security updates to address a critical (CVSS 9.3) remote code execution vulnerability impacting its Firebox firewalls. The vulnerability is caused by an out-of-bounds write on devices configured to use IKEv2 VPN. Devices that have deleted the vulnerable configuration but still have a branch office VPN to a static gateway peer configured may also be vulnerable.
Researchers at Radware discovered a vulnerability called ShadowLeak that exploits OpenAI's ChatGPT through indirect prompt injection attacks. Hidden email instructions can trick the AI into stealing sensitive data like credit card numbers and names from users' inboxes. The attack bypasses ChatGPT's security protections by encoding stolen data in Base64 and exfiltrating it directly through OpenAI's servers via the agent's browsing tool, making it nearly impossible to detect since it doesn't go through the client interface. This attack represents a significant escalation from previous client-side prompt injection attacks, as the data theft occurs entirely on the backend without any visible signs to the user.
Creator marketing is now the top area for 2026 investment, ahead of AI-driven search, paid social, and gaming. 90% of brands use creators, and 97% of CMOs plan to increase budgets. Brands are scaling “creator armies” for always-on campaigns, with most working with 50+ creators. Creator content now spans display, CTV, content marketing, and retail media. LTK reports 2.1x higher click growth and 1.4x higher sales growth for brands boosting creator content compared to competitors.
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Brands are releasing smaller versions of bags, snacks, and beauty items to attract price-conscious Gen Z and millennial shoppers. Sales of mini beauty products jumped 15% in H1 2025, nearly 4x faster than full-size items. Minis work as trial purchases, social media-friendly content, and impulse buys. Even tequila and spirits brands are getting in on the trend, turning miniature bottles into “affordable luxuries” that drive buzz.
AI search rewards consistent authority and authentic brand signals. To increase visibility in AI answers, prioritize publishing high-quality, expertise-driven content on your own site or in respected industry publications. Another tactic is to actively participate in conversations on platforms like Reddit, LinkedIn, and niche forums to help AI models pick up real references. Beyond digital efforts, offline tactics such as presenting at industry conferences, collaborating with known influencers, and contributing data-backed research studies create real-world credibility that AI systems can pick up over time.
Aldi has shifted its social media strategy to presenting itself as a persona rather than a store. It's no longer focusing its socials on low prices and instead leans into playful, culturally relevant content and viral trends. This approach has driven double-digit growth in engagement on Instagram and TikTok, with some posts reaching over 600,000 shares and far outperforming competitors like Kroger and Whole Foods. Aldi's small social team, which consists of a manager and two associates, achieved this by staying consistent across platforms while balancing planned content with quick reactions to trends.
B2B newsletters work best as short-form, native content that teaches or inspires rather than just linking to blog posts. Send them consistently, monthly or bi-monthly, and from a real person, not a generic address. Avoid generic titles, focus on the reader, and keep copy skimmable. Reserve pitches for the PS, use images or videos sparingly, and publish on a newsletter platform for extra reach. Split dense content across multiple issues to keep them readable and engaging.
Every missed call is wasted marketing spend. With CallRail's new AI assistant, Voice Assist, no lead ever goes to voicemail. Voice Assist captures leads, qualifies prospects, and sends conversion data back to ad platforms to replicate what works. Early users are seeing 175% higher answer rates. 👉 Read about Voice Assist [10] or 📞 hear it
This webinar shows how to turn Reddit's 50M+ daily conversations into actionable insights. It covers how to analyze customer pain points, map journeys, spot trending topics before competitors, and use AI to craft messaging in customers' own words. The webinar also explains how to build an always-on monitoring system with code templates and no-code workflows and provides tools to surface unfiltered customer insights and track real-time market movements.
YouTube is rolling out new tools across Shorts, Studio, Live, Music, and Shopping to make creation faster. AI features from Google DeepMind's Veo help create video backgrounds, motion effects, auto-edits, and even turn dialogue into music. Studio gets Ask Studio, collaboration tools, A/B testing, auto-dubbing, and likeness detection. Live and podcast creators gain new ways to engage audiences. YouTube Music is adding countdowns, pre-saves, and fan rewards, while brand deals and Shopping get AI-powered enhancements.
Wiz built its B2B brand by ignoring standard playbooks and adopting high-frequency experimentation. The team launched projects such as a toy store for CISOs and a Kubernetes course taught by puppies, intentionally choosing ideas a traditional enterprise would avoid. These “drops” helped differentiate Wiz in a crowded cybersecurity market and fueled a 10X growth in organic reach. Rather than relying on performance channels, it focused on unpaid attention.
Push marketing usually shows linear or diminishing returns and requires sustained spend to maintain reach. Pull marketing, by contrast, builds momentum over time but depends on audience discovery and organic engagement. Push efforts can risk brand fatigue and low-quality interactions when overused, while pull tactics may underdeliver without a clear path to distribution.
Product decisions are always big bets. Do you invest in new features or quality issues? How much influence should customer requests have on your roadmap? Mistakes are costly; data is limited.
PLG isn't dying - it's evolving. AI will supercharge personalization, automate growth basics, and create agentic products that guide users, turning PLG into a co-pilot for activation, retention, and expansion.
Forward Deployed Engineers embed with customers to uncover real problems and outcomes. Popularized by Palantir, this model, paired with prototyping and platform strategies, can help any team create scalable, effective products.
Skip-level readouts often overwhelm product managers, but a disciplined 3-slide structure - context, response, next steps - delivers clarity fast. This builds trust, strengthens leadership alignment, and accelerates career growth.
Interim CPO roles can succeed, but fractional ones don't - product leadership is too unpredictable for part-time work. The most valuable task of an interim CPO is stabilizing the team and hiring their full-time successor.
Micro outages — brief, localized issues — can silently break critical workflows without triggering alerts. The result can be broken workflows that impact revenue and customer experience, and which developers struggle to root-cause. Read the white paper [9] to learn how unitQ uses real-time customer feedback [9] to expose blind spots in your observability stack.
A UX research repository transforms scattered insights into a single source of truth, driving efficiency, alignment, and revenue. With AI and governance, it fuels user-centric decisions and continuous business growth.
Product challenges are often cultural, not technical. Leaders should drive clarity on priorities, build dependable trust, balance performance with growth, and embed empathy to sustain velocity and innovation.
Stakeholder intuition often signals real pain, but delivery rarely guarantees adoption. Success comes from post-launch iteration: observe users, map workflows, fix discovery, measure outcomes, and investigate time-boxes to protect investment.
Job doubts can create a draining limbo, but a structured search can break the cycle. With a clear plan, a strong personal pitch, and weekly time carved out, you can turn uncertainty into clarity and either re-energize in your current role or confidently step into a new one.
LangChain developers experimented with improving Claude Code's ability to work with domain-specific libraries like LangGraph and LangChain, rather than just popular libraries. Their main finding was that providing Claude with high-quality, condensed information in a Claude.md file was more effective than just giving it raw documentation access, as the condensed guide outperformed the MCP documentation tools alone. The best results came from combining both approaches: giving the agent base knowledge through Claude.md while also providing tools to access specific documentation when needed.
While fetch streams are useful for processing data, they shouldn't be used to measure upload/download progress because they give inaccurate results. This is because they measure when data is buffered rather than actually transmitted over the network. For now, XMLHttpRequest is still the best option for progress tracking, though a new fetch observer API is being developed to properly address this gap.
This article discusses strategies for managing dependencies in JavaScript projects using Val Town's React application (with an 863MB node_modules directory) as an example. It's recommended to read all dependency source code before installation, analyze package sizes and transitive dependencies, use tools like Knip to remove unused modules, and build knowledge of trusted module authors.
Configuration files should be treated as user interfaces with a focus on excellent user experience, moving beyond simply choosing a configuration language. The common industry practice of accepting poor configuration experiences is bad, especially because YAML's deceptive simplicity leads to complex maintenance issues. KSON is a new open-source project that is an example of a language designed with user-friendly configuration in mind, with advanced editor support and a focus on human readability.
AI tools are actually biased towards a "WEIRD" (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) perspective, especially American values. This bias can lead to inaccurate results and flawed insights in research conducted in non-WEIRD countries. To mitigate this, researchers should prioritize context-rich methodologies, collaborate closely with local partners, and invest in staff training on cultural awareness.
Rocket [9] is a vibe solutioning tool that turns a prompt or Figma design into a production-ready web or mobile app in minutes. Skip manual setup and engineering handoffs. First build comes with 1 M free
Deep Chat is a customizable AI chat component that can be added to websites with a single line of code. It has support for file sharing, webcam access, speech communication, markdown support, and integration with popular AI APIs like OpenAI and Hugging Face.
tldraw SDK 4.0 is a TypeScript library for building infinite canvas apps. The new version includes a CLI tool, `npm create tldraw`, with starter kits like agent, workflow, and multiplayer options.
Hack Club, a nonprofit that provides coding education to teens, had a sudden $195k/year bill increase from Slack, which threatened to deactivate its workspace and erase its message history. This forced the nonprofit to scramble to migrate its communications to Mattermost. After the issue gained traction online, Slack's CEO contacted Hack Club and offered a more favorable resolution.
Cloudflare had a major outage of its dashboard and APIs on September 12 caused by a bug in its dashboard that triggered excessive calls to its Tenant Service API due to a problematic React useEffect hook, which coincided with a service update and overwhelmed the system. The Tenant Service handles API authorization, so when it became overloaded, it caused widespread 5xx errors across Cloudflare's APIs and dashboard for several hours.