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At the Black Hat Europe conference in December, I sat down with one of our senior security analysts, Paul Stringfellow. In this first part of our conversation we discuss the complexity of navigating cybersecurity tools, and defining relevant metrics to measure ROI and risk. Jon: Paul, how does an end-user organization make sense of everything going on? We’re here at Black Hat, and there’s a wealth of different technologies, options, topics, and categories. In our research, there are 30-50 different security topics: posture management, service management, asset management, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, XDR, and so on. However, from an end-user organization…

The GovWare Security Operations Centre is a collaborative initiative with Cisco for GovWare Conference and Exhibition 2025 — GovWare 2025 Security Operations Centre Following the successful Security Operations Centre (SOC) deployments at RSAC 2025, Black Hat Asia, and Cisco Live San Diego 2025, the Cisco ASEAN executive team approved the inaugural SOC for GovWare. This initiative required close collaboration with GovWare, Image Engine, and the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) Network Operations Center (NOC) to establish a secure conference network for attendees, with security provided by the SOC. The SOC was founded on three primary missions: To Protect — Ensure the…

ESET researchers have identified new MuddyWater activity primarily targeting organizations in Israel, with one confirmed target in Egypt. MuddyWater, also referred to as Mango Sandstorm or TA450, is an Iran-aligned cyberespionage group known for its persistent targeting of government and critical infrastructure sectors, often leveraging custom malware and publicly available tools. In this campaign, the attackers deployed a set of previously undocumented, custom tools with the objective of improving defense evasion and persistence. Among these tools is a custom Fooder loader designed to execute MuddyViper, a C/C++ backdoor. Several versions of Fooder masquerade as the classic Snake game, and its…

Source: unsplash   The transition to renewable energy is a loud, pressing imperative. With climate change breathing down humanity’s neck, energy generation methods have leaped to the forefront of global priorities. Fossil fuels have long dominated the industry, but their expiration date is quickly arriving. Enter renewable energy—a direct response and audacious alternative to our carbon-rich past.   The Current State of Energy Even as advocacy for sustainable energy intensifies, fossil fuels continue to dominate the global energy mix. Over 80% of the world’s primary energy demand is satisfied by coal, oil, and natural gas, mainstays of a century-old model. Yet,…

In iOS 26, SwiftUI finally introduced one of its most highly anticipated components: WebView, a native solution for displaying web content. Before this update, SwiftUI developers had to rely on the UIKit framework, using UIViewRepresentable to wrap WKWebView or SFSafariViewController in order to embed a web view. With the arrival of WebView, Apple now provides a fully native SwiftUI approach to integrating web browsing capabilities into apps. In this tutorial, I’ll give you a quick overview of the new WebView and show you how to use it in your own app development.The Basic Usage of WebViewTo load a web page using the new WebView, you simply import the WebKit framework…

– Advertisement – This deployment will be the country’s first NB-IoT solution on a narrow band with a 2G and 4G fallback option, ensuring continuous transfer of vital data and real-time connectivity. On Monday, Bharti Airtel (Airtel) announced a partnership with Secure Metres for the deployment of narrow band (NB-IoT) services that will use smart metres to power 1.3 million homes in Bihar. According to a statement from the firm, this deployment will be the country’s first NB-IoT solution on a narrow band with a fall-back option that will work on 2G and 4G, ensuring real-time connectivity and uninterrupted transfer…

With new AI models, health tracking companies have realized that they can now provide insights using both structured and unstructured data. The new goal is to create interfaces and modalities that make it easier for users to create a habit of logging their meals or workouts, along with having an ever-present AI assistant that can guide people in areas like nutrition and exercise. Khosla-backed health startup Healthify on Tuesday launched a new version of its health assistant Ria, which you can converse with live, via voice, and by using the camera for getting input about your food. The startup is…

With quercetin as a natural reducer and stabilizer, ZnS quantum dots break down stubborn dyes and disrupt bacterial biofilms, all while remaining safe for healthy cells. Study: Green synthesis of quercetin-mediated ZnS quantum dots and their photocatalytic, antimicrobial, and cytotoxic performances. Image Credit: Sinhyu Photographer/Shutterstock.com In a new Scientific Reports study, researchers demonstrate an environmentally friendly method for producing zinc sulfide (ZnS) quantum dots using quercetin, a plant-derived flavonoid that doubles as a reducing and stabilizing agent. Quantum dots (QDs) exhibit unique optical and electronic behaviors when their dimensions fall below the exciton Bohr radius, approximately 10 nm for ZnS. These nanoscale…

Picture this. You’ve joined a squad at your company that’s designing new product features with an emphasis on automation or AI. Or your company has just implemented a personalization engine. Either way, you’re designing with data. Now what? When it comes to designing for personalization, there are many cautionary tales, no overnight successes, and few guides for the perplexed.  Article Continues Below Between the fantasy of getting it right and the fear of it going wrong—like when we encounter “persofails” in the vein of a company repeatedly imploring everyday consumers to buy additional toilet seats—the personalization gap is real. It’s…

When the head of Nokia Bell Labs core research talks about “lessons learned” from 5G, he’s doing something rare in telecom: admitting a flagship technology didn’t quite work out as planned.That candor matters now, too, because Bell Labs core research president Peter Vetter says 6G’s success depends on getting infrastructure right the first time—something 5G didn’t fully do.By 2030, he says, 5G will have exhausted its capacity. Not because some 5G killer app will appear tomorrow, suddenly making everyone’s phones demand 10 or 100 times as much data capacity as they require today. Rather, by the turn of the decade,…