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Eleven11bot has infected over 86,000 devices. The botnet consists mostly of webcams and Network Video Recorders that use common, weak, or default admin credentials. GreyNoise has published a list of IPs that are associated with botnets.
Tata Technologies reportedly suffered a ransomware attack by Hunters International. The gang claims to have stolen 730,160 files (1.4 TB) and has threatened to release them next Monday if no ransom is paid.
Attackers exploited a third-party JavaScript file to inject four backdoors into 1,000 WordPress websites. The attack involved uploading malicious plugins, injecting SSH keys, and executing remote commands.
DAST can scan dynamic web applications for vulnerabilities. Using tools like ZAPROXY, testers can simulate attacker perspectives, identifying weaknesses through manual and automated scans such as spidering and active scanning to improve web application security.
In this post, Amnesty International investigates the exploit, techniques, and delivery mechanisms used by Cellebrite to target the Android phones of Serbian student activists. The exploit targeted core Linux kernel USB drivers, potentially affecting over a billion Android devices. Evidence shows an attempt to install a mysterious Android app after the phone was unlocked using Cellebrite.
Rad Security is an AI-driven defense platform that enhances operational efficiency for security teams and facilitates safe AI use in organizations.
PentAGI is an advanced tool designed for automated security testing that utilizes state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies.
Titleist monitors newly registered domains for possible misspellings or bitflips. It utilizes the CertStream Python library and can be tailored to identify specific types of suspicious domains.
Harmonic, an AI data security company, revealed that 8.5% of employee prompts to popular LLMs included sensitive data. Harmonic's report showed that 46% of submitted sensitive data included billing and authentication data, 27% included employee PII and payroll data, and 15% included legal and financial data. Employees who enter sensitive data to free tiers of LLMs may be inadvertently leaking data, as the report demonstrated that 54% of sensitive prompts were entered on ChatGPT's free tier.
Invictus IR identified a threat actor who established persistence by leveraging a third-party mail client to phish contacts. The attack was initiated with a seemingly legitimate Dropbox invoice that directed the victim to a phishing page, where their credentials were harvested. The attacker used these credentials to log into the eM Client mail client, register accounts with Dropbox and WeTransfer, and spam contacts with fake invoices to compromise additional victims.
Amazon Verified Permissions (AVP) is a service that manages permissions and provides fine-grained authorization for customer-built applications. AWS has now added support to AVP for the same JSON format that the Cedar SDK supports.
The China-backed APT Silk Typhoon targets global IT supply chains by exploiting IT solutions and cloud app vulnerabilities.
The US imposed sanctions on an Iranian person for managing the illegal Nemesis Market, a darknet platform for drug and cybercrime trading.
Countering Chinese hacking of critical infrastructure will require top-level cybersecurity talent at the NSA and other agencies.
Tesla's brand value has dropped 26% in a year, from $58.3 billion to $43 billion, as trust in the company has declined. Tesla is losing market share due to leadership controversies rather than product competition. Elon Musk's association with Tesla has shifted from an asset to a liability, with his political endorsements and unpredictable actions alienating core customer segments. Sales have declined across large European markets, including a 60% drop in both Germany and France.
Google is testing a new search mode that eliminates traditional links and relies entirely on responses generated by its Gemini 2.0 model. This new AI Mode, currently available to Google One AI Premium subscribers, provides conversational answers with web summaries, Knowledge Graph content, and shopping data instead of displaying organic search results.
Despite controlling nearly half of U.S. household wealth, baby boomers are less likely to respond to ads, preferring organic marketing channels like email, social media, and blogs. Use SEO-driven content, informative emails, and video storytelling to reach them rather than relying on paid media or rapid conversion tactics. Additionally, since 84% of baby boomers prefer in-store shopping, companies must integrate digital strategies with retail experiences and create marketing sequences that focus on long-term engagement.
After running a sponsored LinkedIn post, repurpose it as a thought leadership ad to maximize reach and impact. In one example, this approach led to a 4X ROAS, six opportunities, and two new clients from a $5,000 ad spend in just one month. If you're investing in sponsored posts, set aside a budget to promote them further with thought-leadership ads for better results.
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The Marketing Benchmark Alliance will walk through the results of surveying more than 200 marketing leaders at diverse companies about pipeline metrics, attribution models by growth stage, marketing KPIs, and budget. The panel includes Bill Macitis (former CMO of Slack and Zendesk), Carilu Dietrich (former Head of Marketing at Atlassian), and Jon Miller (founder of Marketo). Attendees will receive the Marketing Benchmark report, which includes an interactive widget to customize the data. The webinar will take place on March 11 at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT.
Gumloop enables AI-powered workflow automation through a no-code, drag-and-drop interface. It integrates with various services for tasks like web scraping, SEO marketing, and document processing. A Chrome extension also records browser actions and turns them into repeatable automations.
This event on March 19 brings together 15 top B2B marketing experts for live teardowns of real emails. Experts will critique newsletters, lead nurture sequences, and more, offering brutally honest but constructive feedback to help marketers improve their email strategies for 2025. Each session features three experts who will break down what makes an email effective, ensuring it gets read and drives results. Attendees can submit their emails for review.
AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are changing how people find information, but monetizing them is challenging. Google earns about $54 billion per quarter from search ads, which works because they target user intent at minimal cost per query. However, AI chatbots are expensive to run—each response costs several cents, while Google searches cost fractions of a cent. Traditional ad models don't fit well in chatbots, leading companies like OpenAI to rely on subscriptions, API sales, and enterprise solutions. Despite millions of paying users, AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic are still losing billions annually, making profitability uncertain without major cost reductions or new monetization strategies.
Mozilla's MDN Web Docs became the leading web development documentation resource by maintaining neutrality, covering all major browsers and platforms instead of favoring Firefox. It democratized contributions with a structured GitHub workflow, attracting 45,000+ contributors and 11,000+ pages of technical content. MDN prioritized user journeys by structuring content for beginners, intermediate developers, and experts, which ensures relevance for all experience levels. Its strategy made it the industry's trusted, shared knowledge base, even as competitors like Microsoft and Google contributed to it instead of replacing it.
Even in B2B, it's critical that every piece of marketing oozes emotional appeal because you aren't really selling to businesses, you are appealing to the people who work at those businesses.
While very short posts may underperform, adding words for the sake of length will not magically drive more traffic.
Leading content isn't just about writing - it's about aligning strategy with executives.
React components can be viewed as defining a state machine, where the UI and valid state transitions are functions of the current state ({transitions} = f(state)). Asynchronous and concurrent updates in React can create situations where users can trigger invalid updates because the UI doesn't immediately reflect the new state. To prevent this, devs should use optimistic or pending updates that flush synchronously to the DOM, making sure that the UI accurately reflects the valid transitions.
Playwright is a tool often used for end-to-end testing, but can be used for web scraping dynamic websites. Unlike other libraries, Playwright opens websites in a real browser, allowing it to scrape content rendered by JavaScript. This article walks through an example of scraping YouTube for video titles, URLs, and the number of likes, while also navigating through multiple pages at a time.
This post goes over how to set up a Next.js project with an example route, explains how to use Route Handlers for different HTTP methods, and explores working with Web APIs, dynamic routing, and reusable middleware. It also discusses deployments for both standard Node.js environments and static SPA exports.
Building successful products at PostHog came from having small, autonomous teams empowered to make decisions based on user feedback and metrics. Trust, transparency, and a focus on shipping fast are necessary, with product engineers playing an important role in understanding user needs and iterating quickly.
Tailscale is a service that creates a virtual private network for easy device access. This developer found that Tailscale's free tier was really generous for their use cases, which needed simple remote connections, file sharing, and exit node functionality.
Exceptional candidates think aloud, use uncertainty to demonstrate clarity, and prioritize problem-solving over immediate perfection. They also showcase their authenticity, reframe failures as learning opportunities, and practice structured adaptability to handle unpredictable challenges.
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Follow this tutorial [10] to learn how to easily configure and run a website crawl with Open Crawler, automatically chunk and generate sparse vector embeddings with ELSER for the crawled web content (blog text), and run a few sample searches to ensure everything's working.
Lynx is a new cross-platform technology from TikTok that allows devs to create native UIs for mobile and web from a single codebase. It is currently used in various TikTok apps, from lightweight panels to complex e-commerce storefronts, and is now being open-sourced.
TanStack Form v1 is a stable, production-ready form library with support for React, Vue, Angular, Solid, and Lit. It has extreme type safety, schema validation (Zod, Valibot, ArkType), and asynchronous validation with built-in debouncing.
Malibu is a native ESM middleware for Node.js that helps protect web apps from CSRF attacks. It's designed to work with frameworks like Express, Tinyhttp, and Polka, and it depends on either Cookie Parser or Session middleware. The middleware allows devs to acquire CSRF tokens and provides options for configuration, including middleware type, cookie settings, and token location.
The US is unique in having a tier above Big Tech. Across the UK, India, and the Netherlands, the highest compensation is Big Tech, but in the US, hedge funds, quant firms, and top scaleups can pay more. However, these positions are usually reserved for workers already in Big Tech, and switching can be difficult. It's a lot harder now to get into top-tier companies in today's tough job market.
Apple has announced the M3 Ultra chip, its highest-performing chip ever. Designed for heavily threaded and bandwidth-intensive applications, the M3 Ultra has a 32-core CPU, an 80-core GPU, a doubled Neural Engine, and support for up to 512GB of unified memory. It also incorporates Thunderbolt 5 connectivity, with more than double the bandwidth per port for faster data transfer.
While Signals in React offer efficiency and direct UI updates, React's component-based, coarse-grained reactivity model makes it difficult to implement them effectively. There are practical problems like handling data rawness, conditionals, and loops, as well as conceptual issues with React's fundamental re-rendering approach.
Expo is positioning itself as a foundational framework and infrastructure provider for an ecosystem of companies developing AI-assisted app creation tools.
The new MacBook Air, available in 13-inch and 15-inch models, is powered by the M4 chip with Apple Intelligence, has a lightweight design, a Liquid Retina display, up to 18 hours of battery life, and comes in new colors like Sky Blue.
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, there are about 2% fewer software developer job postings compared to the worst days of COVID in May 2020.
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Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Charles Duhigg [4], executive leadership expert Val Wright, and HR executives from Ericsson, Lincoln Financial, and CoreLogic for a high-impact virtual event on the most significant challenges shaping HR today—performance, talent development and the evolving role of AI.
Apple has launched a new iPad Air with a spec bump over last year's device. The M3-powered device supports Apple Intelligence and is twice as fast as the M1-powered Air. It comes in four colors with 11- and 13-inch models starting at $599. A Magic Keyboard attachment is available at $269 for the smaller model.