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InterceptSuite is a Windows network traffic analysis tool that intercepts and decrypts any TCP/TLS protocol communications, not just HTTP/HTTPS like existing tools. Built with C/OpenSSL and C#/.NET, it operates as a SOCKS5 proxy enabling real-time viewing and modification of encrypted traffic for security testing and application debugging. This blog dives into it and how it can be used.
This is a guide on maximizing value from the OSCP certification journey post-exam. It focuses on three actions: reflecting on exam performance to pinpoint weaknesses for targeted study plans, networking with professionals and peers via Discord servers and cybersecurity communities, and reassessing career goals to decide next steps. The author recommends a structured retrospective approach that includes data collection (timeline reconstruction and machine breakdowns), analysis (identifying operational hurdles and technical gaps), and reconstruction (developing focused practice plans and strategies). For new professionals, it suggests taking a break, updating resumes, exploring advanced topics like web applications or Active Directory, and considering related fields such as DevSecOps, SOC analysis, or detection engineering based on personal interests.
Muddled Libra, a threat group specializing in social engineering attacks using the 0ktapus phishing kit, targets organizations in software automation, BPO, telecommunications, and technology, particularly large outsourcing firms for high-value cryptocurrency institutions. The group shows deep knowledge of enterprise IT systems and utilizes a comprehensive toolkit, including smishing, MFA bombing, help desk social engineering, and commercial remote monitoring tools to maintain access and evade detection. Its main goal is data theft for supply chain attacks, leveraging stolen information from initial victims to infiltrate downstream customer environments.
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Online threats against high-profile individuals can escalate into real-world harassment or even physical harm. This is growing more urgent due to geopolitical tensions, AI-powered deepfakes [11], and exploitable vulnerabilities. Learn how to use OSINT to identify these threats and take preventive action in Flashpoint's Complete Guide to OSINT for Executive Protection [11].
Witness is a pluggable framework for software supply chain risk management. It automates, normalizes, and verifies software artifact provenance.
Cradle is a cutting-edge open-source threat intelligence platform created by Prodaft and designed for collaborative analysis, visualization of entities and relationships, and report generation. The Cradle platform can be deployed using Docker and Compose, comprising a Python and Django backend, with an Electron and React frontend. It employs Redis and Postgres as its data storage solutions.
MarkItDown is a lightweight Python tool designed to convert various files into Markdown format for use with LLMs and text analysis workflows. It is most comparable to textract, but specifically aims to maintain key document structures and content in Markdown (such as headings, lists, tables, links, etc). Although the output is generally presentable and user-friendly, it is primarily intended for text analysis tools, and may not be ideal for high-fidelity document conversions intended for human readers.
The "Russian Market" cybercrime marketplace has become a leading platform for buying and selling stolen credentials, with logs available for as low as $2 and containing data from information-stealing malware, including passwords, session cookies, and credit card details. The marketplace has grown significantly following the takedown of Genesis Market, with 61% of stolen logs containing enterprise SaaS credentials from platforms like Google Workspace and Salesforce, and 77% including single sign-on credentials. Lumma stealer previously dominated 92% of the market but faces disruption from recent law enforcement actions, while a new stealer called Acreed is rapidly gaining traction with over 4,000 logs uploaded in its first week.
Cartier reported a data breach where hackers accessed customer information, including names, emails, and countries. However, no passwords or payment details were compromised. Other fashion brands like Dior and Adidas have experienced similar cyberattacks recently.
The fiscal 2026 budget proposal from President Donald Trump would cut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency workforce by eliminating 1,083 positions and reducing its budget by $495 million to $2.4 billion. This cut is slightly deeper than earlier forecasts. A new document from the Department of Homeland Security details the CISA personnel reductions and shows planned decreases in other federal cybersecurity programs.
Australia implemented the world's first mandatory ransomware payment disclosure rules in May, requiring organizations with AUS$3 million+ annual turnover to report payments to authorities within 72 hours.
Google Chrome will stop trusting SSL/TLS certificates from Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock starting August 1 (Chrome version 139) due to ongoing compliance failures and broken improvement commitments.
Certain Ulefone and Krüger&Matz phones have security flaws in preinstalled apps, allowing any app to reset the phone, steal PIN codes, or misuse system functions.
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Delve ran 4 placements across 2 TLDR newsletters and brought in 66 leads, with a meaningful chunk from enterprise. The result: $1M in attributed pipeline and a 52x ROI.
Meta plans to automate ad creation and targeting with AI by the end of 2026. Brands will only need to provide a product image and budget, and Meta's AI will generate the ad content, suggest spend, and determine targeting across Facebook and Instagram. The platform will also offer real-time ad personalization based on factors like location.
Bluesky saw a sharp rise in adoption by news influencers after the 2024 election. The platform's growth is driven largely by left-leaning influencers, 69% of whom now have a Bluesky account, compared to just 15% of right-leaning ones. Despite Bluesky's rise, X remains dominant, with 82% of the influencers still using it and 83% of those posting there 4 or more days a week. In contrast, only 31% of Bluesky users posted that often in early 2025, and 48% posted irregularly or not at all. Most influencers on Bluesky also maintain an X account and few have left X entirely.
Lead generation should prioritize quality over quantity. For broad appeal, attract a wide group through multiple channels and incentives, such as charity runs that engage hundreds of millions of runners worldwide. For niche segments, use insider language to build a strong connection with a specific group, like campaigns aimed at dedicated running enthusiasts. For the most exclusive approach, avoid promotion altogether to create intrigue and status.
Product bundling groups related items at a discount to encourage larger purchases and reduce decision fatigue. Shopping cart and checkout suggestions surface add-ons when shoppers are already in buying mode. Threshold-based incentives, such as free gifts or shipping when spending reaches a certain amount, drive higher-value orders.
Instagram is expanding its comment filtering tools to creators with over 100K followers. These tools let users sort comments by top engagement, newest first, or commenter follower count. Creators can also filter to show comments only from people they follow, verified users, or subscribers. These features help large creators focus on key interactions and boost engagement.
B2B buyers purposefully integrate influencer content into every major step of the purchasing journey. LinkedIn's recent guide outlines that credibility and subject-matter expertise are more effective in converting leads than broad appeal in B2B creator partnerships. It also highlights that video leads all other formats in engagement and performance.
Threads now has over 350M monthly active users and is available to all advertisers, but most brands remain in early testing phases. Media buyers see it less as a place to drive conversions and more as a platform to explore brand voice and tone through organic posts. Limited standalone ad options and uncertainty around platform strategy are keeping investment conservative for now.
Strong leadership requires fostering a culture where failure is embraced as a path to learning, not just tolerated. Over 60% of experiments in a typical B2B SaaS setting fail, so leaders must set clear, early expectations that define success by learning, not just positive outcomes. To keep morale high, leaders should balance big, risky goals with achievable wins using a 70-20-10 mix of safe bets, incremental gains, and moonshots. Risk conversations must be ongoing, and leaders need to model vulnerability and failure openly to earn trust. Organizing learnings in accessible, well-maintained repositories ensures insights from failures are retained and used.
Try stating the problem as a question in your next sales page headline.
AI-generated media will soon be indistinguishable from reality, widely accessible, and difficult to regulate.
Building brand and mindshare builds trust and makes buyers more likely to choose you when the time comes.
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Most AI apps and agents today have the same problem: without real-time customer context, AI struggles to identify who a user is, what they need, or how to best respond. Poor recommendations, generic experiences, and missed opportunities ensue.
Many AI tools are similar. Mastering prompting is key. Focus on your needs, experiment bi-weekly, integrate monthly, and review quarterly. Create a personal prompt playbook to effectively use AI as a copilot through continuous learning.
Product discovery reduces building the wrong thing risk through continuous learning and validation. It's about understanding user problems and business needs to confidently build desirable, viable, and feasible products via research and experimentation.
Choose one of three pricing strategies: more for more, more for less, or less for less - each has trade-offs. Success depends on aligning your business with that choice. The biggest mistake is not choosing, which leads to confusion and an unfocused product.
Product ideation is a continuous, strategic process where teams generate and refine ideas based on customer insights and business goals, focusing on problems over solutions. Supported by techniques and AI tools, it should be embedded in development to ensure the team builds the right things and delivers meaningful outcomes.
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Traditional experimentation hits predictable roadblocks: manual test ideation, dev bottlenecks, and complex statistical analysis. Optimizely is now using AI to automate each step [11] - generating test ideas with pre-built variations, handling implementation without developer dependencies, and deciphering the results. Early adopters are testing 2x faster without sacrificing accuracy or rigor. Read the
bol.com's fintech team found that standard discovery methods don't always work - especially when users are hard to reach or uncooperative. They adapted their approach to fit the context, uncovering insights that reshaped product strategies.
In leadership crises, first silence the blaming inner critic that uses 'shoulds' and absolutes. Then, objectively reframe the situation in the third person, focusing on present facts and necessary actions while avoiding blame for the past.
Scarcity fears can drive hoarding, causing clutter. Overcoming it needs a mindset shift towards letting go. Organizing and valuing possessions helps declutter and create space for priorities.
When your to-do list becomes overwhelming with vague, heavy tasks, try splitting it into a clear to-do list and a "bag of worries" for bigger, unstructured concerns. Using LLMs, you can either randomly tackle one worry with a detailed action plan or prioritize them using the Eisenhower Matrix - turning stress into structured, manageable steps.
Despite appearing magical, product launches are typically chaotic behind the scenes with inevitable last-minute issues, making perfect launches unrealistic.
Leaders must build trust in the need for focus and make decisive choices to enable effective prioritization.
Instead of directly asserting on API requests in UI tests, it's better to focus on testing UI state. This is because users don't care about API calls and only about the UI's behavior. For example, instead of asserting that a POST /cart request was made, you should test that clicking "Add to cart" shows the success message to emulate real user experience.
This article goes over how to implement smarter related-post suggestions for an Astro blog using Hugging Face's transformers.js, without needing servers or databases. It uses embeddings, which capture the meaning of text using numeric vectors, and cosine similarity to find posts with similar content. The entire workflow is shown: loading markdown files, generating embeddings with transformers.js, calculating similarities, and displaying the top related posts.
LLMs are not a fad and are already impacting software development by automating tedious tasks and boosting productivity. Modern LLM-assisted coding and agents that can access and modify codebases are more advanced than anything before.
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Korbit will automatically review every PR, find bugs, and explain how to fix them. It detects meaningful performance, security, and functional issues with a deep understanding of your codebase. [9] Now with real-time team insights delivered straight to your Slack. Start
snapDOM is a fast, dependency-free JavaScript library that captures HTML elements as scalable SVG or raster images. It preserves styles and supports features like shadow DOM, with options for customization.
Kan is an open-source Next.js-based project management tool and a Trello alternative. It has features like board visibility, member collaboration, Trello imports, and integrations.
AI agents are becoming essential tools for aligning business outcomes with technical workflows, with autonomous planning, reasoning, and action capabilities. Integrating AI agents is not easy though. There are challenges like data access, performance, security, and governance that organizations must address.
Decorative text and unconventional spacing can be used within HTML attribute values to improve readability. Techniques like brackets, extra spaces, emojis, Unicode characters, and even ASCII art within class names are useful for visual grouping and commenting.