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Payments outfits Viamedis and Almerys both experienced breaches of their systems in late January leading to the theft of data belonging to more than 33 million customers. Affected data on customers and their families includes dates of birth, marital status, social security numbers, and insurance information.
Bank of America is sending notification letters to 57,000 customers to inform them that their personal information was stolen in a data breach at third-party services provider Infosys McCamish System. Losses related to the incident were estimated at $30 million.
A state in India required travelers to obtain a COVID-19 e-pass mandatory. Researchers recently discovered that this data was stored in an open S3 bucket. The leaked data includes names, passport numbers, gender information, mobile numbers, email addresses, travel details, and vehicle numbers.
This post is part of a series that dives into RedLine stealer. RedLine Stealer is a malware available on underground forums for sale as a standalone at $100/$150, depending on the version, or on a subscription basis at $100/month. This malware harvests information from browsers such as saved credentials, autocomplete data, and credit card information.
This blog post explores how attackers can hijack AWS Lex Chabots with a “sleeper phrase” that returns the Lambda function’s role credentials. The post goes through the process of debugging to find the relevant intent file to update and the correct formatting to have Lex return the message properly.
aws:ResourceAccount, as well as various other global conditions, can be used with the StringLike operand to enumerate account IDs, tags, and other metadata across most AWS APIs. The post includes a tool to automate the process.
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Seal is a supply chain security tool that differentiates itself by providing patches to vulnerable packages instead of pushing for updates to the packages.
Domain Protect helps to prevent subdomain takeover. It uses serverless functions in AWS or GCP to continually scan an organization’s DNS records. When vulnerable subdomains are found, Domain Protect sends alerts via Slack or email and optionally creates cloud resources to take over subdomains.
Kubeconform is a Kubernetes manifest validation tool. It can be run locally or integrated into a CI/CD pipeline. Kubeconform borrows heavily from Kubeval, but it has better performance and support for custom resources.
CISA and the OpenSSF Securing Software Repositories Working Group have published a new framework for securing package repositories. Principles for Package Repository Security is a framework aimed at establishing a set of foundational rules for package managers and further harden open-source software ecosystems.
Commando Cat is a novel infostealer malware campaign that targets unsecured Docker API endpoints. The attack begins by launching the malicious Docker container and then escaping to the host. The malware then installs several backdoors and a credential stealer. It removes any other crypto miners and black holes in the Docker registry to prevent competition. This post includes IoCs and Yara rules.
Avast has made the Rhysida decryptor publicly available. It has been available to victims of the Rhysida ransomware since August 2023. This document provides instructions on how to use the decryptor, including parameters that affect the encryption and decryption process, and explains the option to back up encrypted files before decryption.
The U.S. Department of State has announced monetary rewards of up to $10 million for information about individuals holding key positions within the Hive ransomware operation.
A PhD student at MIT posted a photo on X alleging to have discovered a kernel exploit in the Apple Vision Pro on launch day.
A serial burglar in Edina, Minnesota is suspected of using a Wi-Fi jammer to disable connected security cameras before committing burglaries.
Advertisers on X can now run ads against a curated list of premium content creators via Creator Targeting in the self-serve Ads Manager. Ads will be displayed as pre-rolls on the chosen creators’ content, providing brands with direct exposure among the creators’ viewers in the app.
OpenAI has introduced memory controls for ChatGPT, with a gradual rollout underway. Users will be allowed to dictate what ChatGPT remembers or forgets in conversations. The controls allow users to instruct ChatGPT to retain specific information for future interactions. OpenAI is ensuring privacy by offering a Temporary Chat feature, which limits memory access and retention.
Effective content distribution tactics get your assets in front of the right audience and get people engaged with your material. Pin key content to your X profile so that it remains visible to new followers. Add a compelling graph, screenshot, or infographic from long-form content to social platforms to stop scrollers in their tracks, captivate attention, and generate interest. Send high-quality and relevant content to your email list regularly to keep leads engaged.
Automation is a powerful tool for enhancing customer service efficiency and satisfaction. Done right, it can streamline support tasks and provide faster responses to customers. Implementing tools like chatbots, self-service knowledge bases, and automated email responses can significantly improve operational efficiency and reduce costs for businesses. However, it is crucial to recognize and mitigate risks such as lack of personalization and potential technical issues.
Customer acquisition involves driving specific actions, like a free trial signup, a product demo request, or a free-to-paid conversion. This guide covers 7 strategies to close more deals with examples from Canva, Gong, Notion, and Shopify. It also provides tips on improving the customer acquisition process by reducing churn, increasing cross-selling and upselling, following up on leads faster, and building stronger customer relationships using CRM tools.
SaneBox uses AI to declutter inboxes and automatically organize emails based on preferences. InboxGPT works with Gmail to unify support emails into a single inbox. Rasa.io sends individualized versions of an email based on subscribers’ prior reading preferences and behaviors.
Adobe and TikTok collaborated to integrate TikTok’s AI-powered Creative Assistant into Adobe Express. The assistant enables businesses and creators to streamline content creation and marketing efforts. It offers access to TikTok insights, trending hashtags, and AI-powered tools within Adobe Express. Users can now schedule and publish content directly to TikTok without having to leave Adobe Express.
Educating your company on marketing internally can be challenging. Marketers commonly face misconceptions and a lack of understanding about their roles and contributions. This barrier can hinder them from gaining the support needed to drive successful initiatives and impact within their organizations. To address this, set clear business goals, foster cross-functional collaboration, and effectively communicate the value of marketing.
The use of vintage typography in branding and advertising has profound effects on consumer perceptions. It can trigger feelings of nostalgia and enhance perceptions of product safety. Brands leveraging vintage aesthetics strategically can create stronger emotional connections with consumers, leading to increased brand loyalty and willingness to pay. The effectiveness of vintage typography is context-dependent and requires thoughtful consideration from marketers.
Optimize your LinkedIn ad spend and engage potential customers at every stage of their journey by implementing a structured funnel approach.
An in-depth breakdown of a HexClad campaign consisting of 10 emails. It highlights the campaign's pros and areas for improvement.
UI tests have traditionally been conducted through either unit testing or end-to-end (E2E) tests. Both approaches have tradeoffs. With unit tests, you have control over what to render and how the underlying services and imports should behave. However, you lose the ability to interact with an actual page. With E2E tests, you have control over the page but deal with pain points like the inability to make assertions on mocks and test segments of the app. SafeTest aims to address these issues by having a snippet of code in the application bootstrapping stage that injects hooks to run tests. It uses Playwright to run regular tests, thereby achieving ideal browser control. SafeTest also provides reports on when and how any failures occurred which include playback videos or steps to reproduce the failure.
'How to center a div in CSS' is one of the most common questions developers google. There are various methods to center a div with CSS, such as by using text-align, flexbox, CSS Grid, positioned layout with auto margins, or a flow layout with auto margins. To choose the right method, a developer should decide if the centering is horizontal, vertical, or both, think about the number of elements being centered, and consider the layout context (flow, positioned, or grid). Flexbox is a good default choice for centering divs.
Turborepo, a fast JavaScript build system, was ported from Go to Rust. This porting process involved several challenges, such as ensuring hash stability and maintaining compatibility with the Go version. This post discusses lessons learned from the porting process, such as the importance of using a single serialization format from the start and shipping each porting strategy faster.
Hacker News commenters recommend building projects for yourself to solve your own problems rather than trying to go looking for ideas. They recommend working on something that makes you personally happy so that you can return to work on it often organically without forcing yourself to. Building things and taking action often leads to better things, even if the “better thing” is not clear from the start.
An in-depth guide to what on-calls are, their benefits and downsides, and how they work in practice. It also has some interesting perspectives on whether on-calls should be mandatory and compensated. The guide offers many useful tips on how to maintain on-call runbooks, escalation processes, and creating effective on-call practices such as establishing feedback mechanisms for on-call members to share experiences and suggest feedback. It advocates for EM to join the on-call and explains why.
ChatGPT is being updated with the ability to remember information from past conversations, which will make it more personalized in future interactions. Users will have control over what information is remembered and can tell the chatbot to forget things if they want. This feature is currently being tested with a small group of users and will be rolled out more broadly soon.
Unlazy is a lazy loading library that leverages native browser APIs. It's intended for use with the loading="lazy" attribute alongside (blurry) placeholder images.
Linen is a real-time thread-first messaging platform. It’s designed for deep work first, with organized channels, a centralized inbox, and personalized notifications.
This blog post explores the traffic trends from Super Bowl ads. It also looks at local traffic trends seen during the game, as well as email threat volume across related categories in the weeks ahead of the game. Some interesting conclusions: most Super Bowl ads no longer drive traffic to associated websites by including a URL in their ad. However, the DNS traffic analysis in the post shows that viewers don’t seem to have much trouble finding these sites. In-game events had a mixed impact on traffic across domains associated with multiple types of apps, as well as traffic for the websites associated with the teams playing in the Super Bowl.
It’s important to have automated testing, refactoring of prompts, and defending against adversarial attacks to ensure the reliability and security of LLM applications. This article demonstrates the necessity of thoughtful prompt design, ethical considerations, and incorporating feedback early in the development process through examples and discussions. Like with all development, a lot of core software principles still apply to LLM applications.
FoundationDB is the underpinning of Apple’s current cloud infrastructure. The creators of FoundationDB have created Antithesis, a deterministic autonomous testing platform designed to find bugs in software. When developing FoundationDB, their testing infrastructure was renowned for its effectiveness. Antithesis performs deterministic simulations to test software and find bugs.
Andrej Karpathy, previously the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla and most recently an employee at OpenAI, has left OpenAI.
A web-based, real-time log viewer for Kubernetes clusters.
A short history of IBM over its 100 years.
Some languages have tools that let you manipulate program states across time. General relativity theory suggests time can move in both directions, so it is theoretically possible that one day, programming languages may implement some form of time travel using ideas like time-loop logic.
Various online commenters have left software to become lawyers, teachers, and researchers.
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A number of Xbox exclusives are coming to the PS5 and Nintendo Switch. The first two games set to appear on rival consoles are Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment, with Sea of Thieves set to launch later this year. The move is a seismic shift in strategy - while it will give Microsoft more reach, it comes with plenty of risks. Microsoft plans to continue its Xbox hardware efforts, but its vision for the platform is unclear.