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When Resourcely co-founder and CEO Travis McPeak was working at Netflix, he recognized a significant tension that existed between security and speed. If you move fast, you really do tend to break things and security suffers. While at Netflix, he helped build a system where security was baked in. He knew security was essential, but…
The pandemic normalized delivery in the U.S. But even before the health crises struck, delivery sales at restaurants alone were increasing at a rate of 7% to 8% per year, roughly twice that of sales across the entire restaurant industry, according to McKinsey. The trouble is, delivery can be a nightmare from the restaurant and…
An ongoing cybercriminal operation is targeting digital marketing and human resources professionals in an effort to hijack Facebook Business accounts using a newly discovered data-stealing malware. Researchers at WithSecure, the enterprise spin-off of security giant F-Secure, discovered the ongoing campaign they dubbed Ducktail, and found evidence to suggest that a Vietnamese threat actor has been…
Instagram head Adam Mosseri posted a video this morning addressing mounting concerns about changes to the app’s feed and its increasing emphasis on video. Even Kim Kardashian and her sister Kylie Jenner, the most-followed woman on Instagram, posted their distaste for the new features, so you know it’s serious — remember when Kylie singlehandedly drove…
Samsung is in love with the color purple, and the company decided to profess that love with a new version of its Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone. The new, Bora Purple Galaxy S22, is otherwise identical to the regular Galaxy S22 in every way. But have you seen that purple color? A quick trip down the…
It’s been 30 years since A League of Their Own, starring Geena Davis and Tom Hanks, brought the story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League to the big screen. Now, Prime Video‘s new series takes another look at the World War II-era baseball league, this time with new characters. Starring Abbi Jacobson, Chanté Adams,…
If you ever wanted your very own infostealer, you can now compile one in just a few minutes, for free, courtesy of unknown threat actors. Researchers from Cyble found an anonymous poster has shared the source code for a new strain of malware on a hacking forum. Even though it’s still fresh, the source code…
Today, a growing number of businesses collect public web data through what is commonly known as “web scraping”, in order to gather actionable insights, in real time, deep down into the markets they serve for their customers. Simply put, web scraping is the action of collecting web data from various website sources, whether it be…
Cybersecurity researchers from Qihoo360 and Kaspersky have warned some older motherboards could be infected with uniquely sneaky malware. Motherboard malware, persistent threats usually known as UEFI rootkits, are particularly difficult to remove, as even wiping the hard drive doesn’t eliminate the threat. This instance, which Qihoo360 dubbed Spy Shadow Trojan, and Kaspersky named CosmicStrand, was…