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Cybersecurity News
CISA Adds Two N-able N-central Flaws to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added two security flaws impacting N-able N-central to its Known Expl...
AI Applications in Cybersecurity
There is a really great series of online events highlighting cool uses of AI in cybersecurity, titled Prompt||GTFO. Videos from the first...
CISA and Partners Release Asset Inventory Guidance for Operational Technology Owners and Operators
CISA, along with the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Environmental Protection Agency, and several international part...
CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-20...
Why more transparency around cyber attacks is a good thing for everyone
Eleanor Fairford, Deputy Director of Incident Management at the NCSC, and Mihaela Jembei, Director of Regulatory Cyber at the Information Commissio...
Ransomware: 'WannaCry' guidance for enterprise administrators
Guidance for enterprise administrators who want to reduce the likelihood of being held to ransom by WannaCry (or other types of ransomware)....
Mitigating malware and ransomware attacks
How to defend organisations against malware or ransomware attacks....
Charon Ransomware Hits Middle East Sectors Using APT-Level Evasion Tactics
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that employs a previously undocumented ransomware family called Charon to target the Middl...
China Questions Security of AI Chips From Nvidia, AMD
The US banned the sale of AI chips to China and then backed off. Now, Chinese sources are calling on NVIDIA to prove its AI chips have no backdoors...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2025 Edition
Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. At least 13 of the bugs r...
Hackers leak Allianz Life data stolen in Salesforce attacks
Hackers have released stolen data belonging to US insurance giant Allianz Life, exposing 2.8 million records with sensitive information on business...
Charon Ransomware Emerges With APT-Style Tactics
The first documented deployment of the novel malware in a campaign against the Middle Eastern public sector and aviation industry may be tied to Ch...
CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2013-3...
BlackSuit Ransomware Takes an Infrastructure Hit From Law Enforcement
A swarm of US agencies joined with international partners to take down servers and domains and seize more than $1 million associated with BlackSuit...
North Korean Kimsuky hackers exposed in alleged data breach
The North Korean state-sponsored hackers known as Kimsuky has reportedly suffered a data breach after two hackers, who describe themselves as the o...
Netherlands: Citrix Netscaler flaw CVE-2025-6543 exploited to breach orgs
The Netherlands' National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning that a critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-6543 was explo...
REvil Actor Accuses Russia of Planning 2021 Kaseya Attack
REvil affiliate Yaroslav Vasinskyi, who was convicted last year for his role in the 2021 Kaseya ransomware supply chain attack, said the Russian go...
Details emerge on WinRAR zero-day attacks that infected PCs with malware
Researchers have released a report detailing how a recent WinRAR path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088 was exploited in zero-day at...
Automatic License Plate Readers Are Coming to Schools
Fears around children is opening up a new market for automatic license place readers....
KrebsOnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ HBO Max Series
A new documentary series about cybercrime airing next month on HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the explo...
Google Project Zero Changes Its Disclosure Policy
Google’s vulnerability finding team is again pushing the envelope of responsible disclosure: Google’s Project Zero team will retain its...
Cyber Assessment Framework v4.0 released in response to growing threat
Updates to the CAF helps providers of essential services to better manage their cyber risks....
CISA Issues ED 25-02: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange Vulnerability
Today, CISA issued Emergency Directive (ED) 25-02: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange Vulnerability in response to CVE-2025-53786, a vulnerability in Micr...
CISA Releases Ten Industrial Control Systems Advisories
CISA released ten Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on August 7, 2025. These advisories provide timely information about current security...
Web Development News
Google Requires Crypto App Licenses in 15 Regions as FBI Warns of $9.9M Scam Losses
Google said it's implementing a new policy requiring developers of cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets to obtain government licenses before publis...
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory: Building context-aware agents
In this post, we explore Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory, a fully managed service that enables AI agents to maintain both immediate and long-term k...
We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for “Base Elements”
I've come to realize that perhaps we need to have a unit between root and relative values. This would bring about a whole new possibility when crea...
From Line To Layout: How Past Experiences Shape Your Design Career
Your past shapes who you are as a designer, no matter where your career began or how unexpected your career path may have been. Stephanie Campbell ...
A gentle introduction to anchor positioning
Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is....
Researchers Spot XZ Utils Backdoor in Dozens of Docker Hub Images, Fueling Supply Chain Risks
New research has uncovered Docker images on Docker Hub that contain the infamous XZ Utils backdoor, more than a year after the discovery of the inc...
CSS-Questions
CSS-Questions is a mini site where you can test your CSS knowledge with over 100 questions. CSS-Questions originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
Making Sense of Text with Decision Trees
In this article, you will learn: • Build a decision tree classifier for spam email detection that analyzes text data....
Getting Creative With Quotes
How do you design block quotes and pull quotes to reflect a brand’s visual identity and help tell its story? Here’s how I do it by styling the HTML...
Stuff & Nonsense Practical Layout Workshop
Web design veteran Andy Clarke is offering a two-hour workshop all about creating practical and creative page layouts this September 18. Register a...
Designing With AI, Not Around It: Practical Advanced Techniques For Product Design Use Cases
Prompting isn’t just about writing better instructions, but about designing better thinking. Ilia Kanazin and Marina Chernyshova explore how advanc...
How to Prepare for CSS-Specific Interview Questions
Get advice answering a set of 10 CSS-related questions you likely will encounter in front-end interviews. How to Prepare for CSS-Specific Interview...
The Power Of The Intl API: A Definitive Guide To Browser-Native Internationalization
Internationalization isn’t just translation. It’s about formatting dates, pluralizing words, sorting names, and more, all according to specific loc...
Item Flow – Part 2: next steps for Masonry
Back in March, we published Item Flow, Part 1: a new unified concept for layout, an article about a new idea for unifying flex-flow and grid-auto-f...
Artificial Intelligence News
Google Gemini's Deep Research is finally coming to API
Google Gemini's one of the most powerful features is Deep Research, but up until now, it has been strictly limited to the Gemini interface. This co...
OpenAI relaxes GPT-5 rate limit, promises to improve the personality
OpenAI is slowly addressing all concerns around GPT-5, including rate limits and now its personality, which has been criticized for being less affi...
Securely launch and scale your agents and tools on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
In this post, we explore how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime simplifies the deployment and management of AI agents....
Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people?
Opinion: Theatrical testing scenarios explain why AI models produce alarming outputs—and why we fall for it....
Google is investing in infrastructure and an AI-ready workforce in Oklahoma.
A group of six people, five men and one woman, standing around printed plans of a data center site on a wood table. They are positioned outdoors wi...
How to Use LLMs for Powerful Automatic Evaluations
A beginner-friendly introduction to LLM-as-a-Judge The post How to Use LLMs for Powerful Automatic Evaluations appeared first on Towards Data Scien...
PwC and AWS Build Responsible AI with Automated Reasoning on Amazon Bedrock
This post presents how AWS and PwC are developing new reasoning checks that combine deep industry expertise with Automated Reasoning checks in Amaz...
Google Gemini will now learn from your chats—unless you tell it not to
Gemini will remember this, so it's time to check your privacy settings....
How Amazon scaled Rufus by building multi-node inference using AWS Trainium chips and vLLM
In this post, Amazon shares how they developed a multi-node inference solution for Rufus, their generative AI shopping assistant, using Amazon Trai...
Build an intelligent financial analysis agent with LangGraph and Strands Agents
This post describes an approach of combining three powerful technologies to illustrate an architecture that you can adapt and build upon for your s...
All News
Google Requires Crypto App Licenses in 15 Regions as FBI Warns of $9.9M Scam Losses
Google said it's implementing a new policy requiring developers of cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets to obtain government licenses before publis...
CISA Adds Two N-able N-central Flaws to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added two security flaws impacting N-able N-central to its Known Expl...
Google Gemini's Deep Research is finally coming to API
Google Gemini's one of the most powerful features is Deep Research, but up until now, it has been strictly limited to the Gemini interface. This co...
OpenAI relaxes GPT-5 rate limit, promises to improve the personality
OpenAI is slowly addressing all concerns around GPT-5, including rate limits and now its personality, which has been criticized for being less affi...
Securely launch and scale your agents and tools on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
In this post, we explore how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime simplifies the deployment and management of AI agents....
Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people?
Opinion: Theatrical testing scenarios explain why AI models produce alarming outputs—and why we fall for it....
Google is investing in infrastructure and an AI-ready workforce in Oklahoma.
A group of six people, five men and one woman, standing around printed plans of a data center site on a wood table. They are positioned outdoors wi...
How to Use LLMs for Powerful Automatic Evaluations
A beginner-friendly introduction to LLM-as-a-Judge The post How to Use LLMs for Powerful Automatic Evaluations appeared first on Towards Data Scien...
PwC and AWS Build Responsible AI with Automated Reasoning on Amazon Bedrock
This post presents how AWS and PwC are developing new reasoning checks that combine deep industry expertise with Automated Reasoning checks in Amaz...
Google Gemini will now learn from your chats—unless you tell it not to
Gemini will remember this, so it's time to check your privacy settings....
How Amazon scaled Rufus by building multi-node inference using AWS Trainium chips and vLLM
In this post, Amazon shares how they developed a multi-node inference solution for Rufus, their generative AI shopping assistant, using Amazon Trai...
Build an intelligent financial analysis agent with LangGraph and Strands Agents
This post describes an approach of combining three powerful technologies to illustrate an architecture that you can adapt and build upon for your s...
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory: Building context-aware agents
In this post, we explore Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory, a fully managed service that enables AI agents to maintain both immediate and long-term k...
AI Applications in Cybersecurity
There is a really great series of online events highlighting cool uses of AI in cybersecurity, titled Prompt||GTFO. Videos from the first...
We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for “Base Elements”
I've come to realize that perhaps we need to have a unit between root and relative values. This would bring about a whole new possibility when crea...
CISA and Partners Release Asset Inventory Guidance for Operational Technology Owners and Operators
CISA, along with the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Environmental Protection Agency, and several international part...
CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-20...
From Line To Layout: How Past Experiences Shape Your Design Career
Your past shapes who you are as a designer, no matter where your career began or how unexpected your career path may have been. Stephanie Campbell ...
Why more transparency around cyber attacks is a good thing for everyone
Eleanor Fairford, Deputy Director of Incident Management at the NCSC, and Mihaela Jembei, Director of Regulatory Cyber at the Information Commissio...
Ransomware: 'WannaCry' guidance for enterprise administrators
Guidance for enterprise administrators who want to reduce the likelihood of being held to ransom by WannaCry (or other types of ransomware)....
Mitigating malware and ransomware attacks
How to defend organisations against malware or ransomware attacks....
Charon Ransomware Hits Middle East Sectors Using APT-Level Evasion Tactics
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that employs a previously undocumented ransomware family called Charon to target the Middl...
China Questions Security of AI Chips From Nvidia, AMD
The US banned the sale of AI chips to China and then backed off. Now, Chinese sources are calling on NVIDIA to prove its AI chips have no backdoors...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2025 Edition
Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. At least 13 of the bugs r...
A gentle introduction to anchor positioning
Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is....
Hackers leak Allianz Life data stolen in Salesforce attacks
Hackers have released stolen data belonging to US insurance giant Allianz Life, exposing 2.8 million records with sensitive information on business...
Researchers Spot XZ Utils Backdoor in Dozens of Docker Hub Images, Fueling Supply Chain Risks
New research has uncovered Docker images on Docker Hub that contain the infamous XZ Utils backdoor, more than a year after the discovery of the inc...
CSS-Questions
CSS-Questions is a mini site where you can test your CSS knowledge with over 100 questions. CSS-Questions originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
Charon Ransomware Emerges With APT-Style Tactics
The first documented deployment of the novel malware in a campaign against the Middle Eastern public sector and aviation industry may be tied to Ch...
Making Sense of Text with Decision Trees
In this article, you will learn: • Build a decision tree classifier for spam email detection that analyzes text data....
CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2013-3...
BlackSuit Ransomware Takes an Infrastructure Hit From Law Enforcement
A swarm of US agencies joined with international partners to take down servers and domains and seize more than $1 million associated with BlackSuit...
North Korean Kimsuky hackers exposed in alleged data breach
The North Korean state-sponsored hackers known as Kimsuky has reportedly suffered a data breach after two hackers, who describe themselves as the o...
Netherlands: Citrix Netscaler flaw CVE-2025-6543 exploited to breach orgs
The Netherlands' National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning that a critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-6543 was explo...
REvil Actor Accuses Russia of Planning 2021 Kaseya Attack
REvil affiliate Yaroslav Vasinskyi, who was convicted last year for his role in the 2021 Kaseya ransomware supply chain attack, said the Russian go...
Details emerge on WinRAR zero-day attacks that infected PCs with malware
Researchers have released a report detailing how a recent WinRAR path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088 was exploited in zero-day at...
Getting Creative With Quotes
How do you design block quotes and pull quotes to reflect a brand’s visual identity and help tell its story? Here’s how I do it by styling the HTML...
Stuff & Nonsense Practical Layout Workshop
Web design veteran Andy Clarke is offering a two-hour workshop all about creating practical and creative page layouts this September 18. Register a...
Automatic License Plate Readers Are Coming to Schools
Fears around children is opening up a new market for automatic license place readers....
Designing With AI, Not Around It: Practical Advanced Techniques For Product Design Use Cases
Prompting isn’t just about writing better instructions, but about designing better thinking. Ilia Kanazin and Marina Chernyshova explore how advanc...
KrebsOnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ HBO Max Series
A new documentary series about cybercrime airing next month on HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the explo...
How to Prepare for CSS-Specific Interview Questions
Get advice answering a set of 10 CSS-related questions you likely will encounter in front-end interviews. How to Prepare for CSS-Specific Interview...
Google Project Zero Changes Its Disclosure Policy
Google’s vulnerability finding team is again pushing the envelope of responsible disclosure: Google’s Project Zero team will retain its...
The Power Of The Intl API: A Definitive Guide To Browser-Native Internationalization
Internationalization isn’t just translation. It’s about formatting dates, pluralizing words, sorting names, and more, all according to specific loc...
Item Flow – Part 2: next steps for Masonry
Back in March, we published Item Flow, Part 1: a new unified concept for layout, an article about a new idea for unifying flex-flow and grid-auto-f...
Cyber Assessment Framework v4.0 released in response to growing threat
Updates to the CAF helps providers of essential services to better manage their cyber risks....
CISA Issues ED 25-02: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange Vulnerability
Today, CISA issued Emergency Directive (ED) 25-02: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange Vulnerability in response to CVE-2025-53786, a vulnerability in Micr...
CISA Releases Ten Industrial Control Systems Advisories
CISA released ten Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on August 7, 2025. These advisories provide timely information about current security...