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Sendbird improved AWS security by utilizing a holistic cloud security model, transitioning to SSO with Okta, managing access requests for EC2 and databases, and setting up SIEM for cloud security. They also focused on secure container management and plan to continue enhancing security measures for their evolving infrastructure.
Researchers from AdaLogics experimented with using their Fuzz Introspector tool along with an LLM to generate fuzz testing harnesses. The fuzzing workflow that they created takes a project link and function name and uses Fuzz Inspector to extract the necessary data for the LLM. This data is then converted into a prompt that is sent to the LLM and then the LLM's output is extracted and manually verified for correctness.
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Drata partnered with Wakefield Research to survey 300 U.S. IT and security professionals for the new State of GRC 2025 report [12]. The data shows that GRC programs, traditionally viewed as cost centers, are now increasingly being seen as revenue drivers. AI is poised to deliver further transformation in compliance. Read the full report →
RansomWhen is a tool to enumerate identities that can lock S3 buckets with KMS resulting in ransomware.
keycred is a tool for managing KeyCredentialLinks and certificate key pairs in Active Directory environments. It supports various authentication mechanisms and strict compliance with rules for validated writes.
Archipelo aims to improve software security and compliance by tracking the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and tracking AI usage during the process.
In this post, PAN's Unit42 analyzes a sophisticated backdoor named Squidoor targeting Windows and Linux systems. The suspected Chinese threat actors exploited vulnerabilities in IIS servers to deploy web shells for persistent access and lateral movement. Squidoor allows attackers to maintain access, execute commands, and communicate stealthily with their operators across different networks using the Outlook API or tunnels over ICMP or DNS.
Amnesty International discovered that Serbian authorities covertly infected phones during police interviews using Cellebrite tools and a newly found spyware called NoviSpy. The spyware allowed for extensive surveillance, leading to Cellebrite suspending its services in Serbia and calls for independent investigations and safeguards against misuse of digital technologies.
The Department of Health and Human Services has fined Warby Parker $1.5M for HIPAA failures. The fines are levied due to a 2018 data breach in which data of 200K customers was stolen as well as two other smaller data breaches in 2020 and 2022. According to the HHS' Office of Civil Rights as of September 2024, Warby Parker still had not conducted an assessment of potential risks and vulnerabilities or taken appropriate steps to improve their security posture.
The U.S. Army soldier who admitted to leaking officials' phone records had researched countries without U.S. extradition and if hacking could be treason.
The FBI reported that North Korean hackers stole $1.5 billion from Bybit exchange on February 21 - the hackers are rapidly laundering the cryptocurrency.
Researchers have discovered a "drivethru hacking" vulnerability affecting over two dozen dashcam models.
Instagram is reportedly considering launching a separate Reels app amid uncertainty over TikTok's future in the US. President Trump granted a 75-day extension to the law threatening a TikTok ban and floated the possibility of a joint venture between the US and ByteDance, but was unclear how that would work. The law was enacted due to arguments that TikTok could be used by China as a tool for spying and political manipulation.
TikTok will shut down its Creator Marketplace on April 1, replacing it with TikTok One, which is an expanded platform with AI-powered creative tools. The new system integrates AI features like the Symphony Assistant for trend analysis, script generation, and video creation, reducing reliance on traditional creator collaborations. This move shifts TikTok's approach to influencer marketing by prioritizing AI-driven campaign execution over direct creator collaborations.
Customer research found that many of Undetectable AI's site visitors worried that using AI would result in non-human sounding content and ultimately put their work and reputation at risk. The company used this finding to optimize its sign-up flow, which increased sign-ups by 3%. This involved consolidating three different sign-up forms into a single version, while also adding social proof, a clearer value proposition, and targeted messaging. The change improved conversions and set the stage for further optimization.
Measuring brand awareness is best done through surveys tracking unaided and aided recall, brand preference, and consideration sets. Use targeted surveys every 6-12 months instead of relying on fragmented share of search data to gauge the impact of brand marketing efforts. A sample of 100 B2B respondents provides reliable insights with a ~10% margin of error, offering actionable data quickly and cost-effectively. This approach allows for faster decision-making and a competitive edge with minimal time and expense.
For ‘Freemium Loyalists', use paywalls or micro trials to encourage upgrades. Optimize onboarding for ‘Prospective Premium Users' with clear activations and pricing tests. Keep ‘Active Subscribers' engaged with personalized experiences and upsell highly engaged users. Re-engage ‘At-Risk and Churned Users' with habit reinforcement and targeted offers. Leverage ‘Product Champions' through referral programs, exclusive perks, and social proof to reduce acquisition costs.
A templated prompt to uncover questions your ICPs are asking on social sites, forums, Reddit, and Quora.
These curated Maven courses offer a variety of expert-led programs ranging from 2-4 weeks. Topics include A/B testing, B2B tech messaging, product-led growth, and community-led growth. The earliest course starts on March 3.
Substack is becoming a new channel for brand marketing, with companies like Tory Burch and The RealReal creating newsletters that blend editorial storytelling with product links. Unlike traditional email marketing, which drives direct sales through personalized flows, Substack offers brands a space to build community and engage audiences with original content.
Duolingo's viral campaign, where it “killed off” its owl mascot Duo, shows the power of character-driven storytelling. The campaign's success, with over a billion organic views, proves that brands need a relatable, consistent personality, whether through a mascot or spokesperson. Duolingo's approach connected with fans by developing Duo's persona over time, creating genuine engagement. However, brands must be careful with humor, especially around sensitive topics like suicide.
Trump has announced a new 10% tariff on Chinese goods and reaffirmed plans for a 25% tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada starting March 4. Mexico and Canada are negotiating to avoid the tariffs, warning of strong retaliation. Economists predict higher prices and market uncertainty, while China has already imposed its own tariffs in response.
A one-pager on the key elements for a B2B event landing page.
Social care shifts social media from a broadcasting tool to a customer experience strategy that blends marketing, sales, and support.
Shorter, focused blog posts answering specific customer questions are now more effective.
OpenAI's Deep Research aims to automate research and analysis but falls short due to unreliable data sourcing and inaccuracies, making it difficult to trust for critical work. While AI can significantly accelerate tasks like report generation, its persistent error rate raises fundamental questions about whether these models will ever be fully reliable or remain tools that require constant human oversight.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.7 rivals GPT-4-class models, while OpenAI leads with ChatGPT, Grok 3 excels in speed, and China's DeepSeek has emerged as a top open-source AI contender. The AI chip race, led by Nvidia, has intensified as U.S. semiconductor policy weakened China's TSMC reliance but deepened U.S. dependence on Taiwan, sparking calls to lift the China chip ban, tighten equipment restrictions, boost domestic production, and strengthen Intel's foundry.
Product Culture Blueprint Drafter is an AI tool that transforms workshop discussions into structured product culture documents. It addresses the issue of teams failing to document their work. Through trial and iteration, the AI model was refined to ensure depth, accuracy, and usability, with an emphasis on the importance of focusing AI tools on specific tasks, improving prompts systematically, and leveraging automation to enhance productivity in product operations.
Developing a product strategy is inherently messy. It requires extensive discussions, data synthesis, and navigating the frustrating yet necessary "Groan Zone" before reaching clarity. Rushing decisions without proper inputs leads to weak, unsustainable strategies, so teams must invest time in research, hypothesis-building, and aligning capabilities to ensure a defensible and executable strategy.
Teams often make hidden quality tradeoffs that accumulate over time under deadline pressure, jeopardizing long-term success. The cycle can be broken by increasing visibility into compromises, tracking risks, and fostering long-term thinking, ensuring they ship not just fast, but smart.
For a successful finance-product partnership, PMs must understand how the company makes money, and finance teams must tailor their approach based on PM archetypes—Strategists, Designers, Taskmasters, and Data Geeks. By aligning on financially relevant metrics, unit economics, and customer impact, companies can avoid costly product missteps, optimize resources, and ensure product decisions contribute to sustainable growth.
A New Leader Assimilation session accelerates trust, clarifies expectations, and aligns team dynamics for seamless leadership transitions. This structured process involves facilitated discussions, anonymous feedback, and strategic action planning, ensuring the new leader quickly integrates and drives impact.
The rise of generative AI is set to significantly disrupt product teams, potentially reducing team sizes and shifting the focus from product delivery to product discovery. While this transformation could lead to increased efficiency, cost savings, and greater innovation, it will also result in job displacement, requiring many professionals to upskill or transition to new roles in order to remain relevant in the evolving landscape.
The technical product manager role blends core product management with deep technical expertise, bridging the gap between business needs and engineering feasibility. As technical skills become increasingly essential for PMs, mastering areas like system architecture, APIs, security, and stakeholder communication will set professionals apart in this evolving landscape.
When faced with an unexpected question in a high-stakes meeting, it's crucial to stay calm, buy time, and leverage resources to respond effectively.
AI's biggest opportunity in design isn't automation, it's communication.
The pgRouting Postgres extension can be used to add graph functionality to Postgres databases. While it's usually used for geospatial routing, it can also be used for non-GIS use cases, such as task scheduling using dependencies to find the critical path, reverse proxy routing based on resource allocation, and building recommendation engines like YouTube's.
Preply improved its INP (Interaction to Next Paint) through targeted code improvements, React 18 upgrades, and strategic refactoring. Some of the improvements that helped a lot include virtualizing long lists, debouncing keyboard events, and memoizing heavy components.
Programming for distributed systems hasn't seen fundamental improvements in the last decade. Current approaches rely on band-aids over existing paradigms like external-distribution, static-location, and arbitrary-location, each with limitations in performance, control, or semantic clarity. There's a need for a new programming model that is native to distributed systems that has things like semantic locality and can surface potential issues from network delays and faults.
HTTP/2 support in Ruby HTTP servers like Puma isn't necessary because its primary benefit, multiplexing, is most impactful over the internet with high latency. Within a datacenter, the low latency between the application server and load balancer takes away the advantage of HTTP/2. Furthermore, features like server push, once a motivation for end-to-end HTTP/2, have been abandoned, so HTTP/2 is best handled at the infrastructure entry point (load balancer or reverse proxy) to avoid unnecessary complexity within the application server.
OpenAI has released a research preview of GPT-4.5, their new advanced chat model. It's their biggest model yet, with improvements in its ability to recognize patterns, draw connections, and generate insights. It also has more "EQ" and a better understanding of human intent. However, it's much more expensive than GPT-4o, at a whopping $75/1M input tokens.
Yaak is a modern, open-source API client designed for devs, with offline functionality, Git integration, and extensibility through NodeJS plugins. It supports API protocols like HTTP, GraphQL, WebSockets, and gRPC, letting users authenticate, send dynamic requests, and import data from other tools.
superglue is an open-source data connector for simpler interactions with complex or legacy APIs. It automatically generates API configurations and handles pagination, authentication, and retries, while transforming data into a user-defined schema. It also validates data compliance, automatically fixes broken transformations, and uses LLMs for data mapping.
Macs can still update automatically in the background even with automatic updates disabled. A forced update can be triggered by a background activity scheduled by the DAS-CTS scheduling system, which ignores user preferences. The process can bypass authentication and offers no warning or opportunity to postpone, even conflicting with scheduled backups.
While the EU's DMA aimed to allow third-party app stores, Apple's implementation includes stringent notarization requirements and fees that basically prevent true sideloading. Hobbyist developers may find some limited opportunities, but users outside the EU cannot access these alternative apps, and sideloading's benefits, such as enabling FOSS and repurposing older devices, remain unrealized on iOS due to Apple's restrictions.
Svader is a library for creating GPU-rendered Svelte components using WebGL and WebGPU fragment shaders.
Probly is an AI-powered spreadsheet application built with Next.js and Python that combines traditional spreadsheet functionality with data analysis, visualization, and smart suggestions through the OpenAI API.
IBM completed its $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp to create a hybrid cloud platform.
A list of required and recommended coding practices, tools, and configurations for developing Rails 8 applications.