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Following a review of the cybersecurity risk management at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) assessed the extent to which NASA implemented cybersecurity risk management for selected major projects. GAO reviewed NASA’s policies and guidance regarding cybersecurity risk management. GAO selected a non-generalizable sample of two major projects and two associated systems for each project. For the four selected systems, GAO analyzed system authorization documentation and compared it to seven key cybersecurity risk management steps and associated activities. GAO also interviewed project and cybersecurity officials. NASA fully or partially implemented all steps of…

Enrich Layer has acquired HR Signal to enhance the enrichment tools and data products it offers to customers across industries. The transaction, which was completed earlier in June, adds HR Signal’s predictive workforce analytics platform and Workforce Insights Engine to Enrich Layer’s data platform, Enrich Layer said in a Thursday (June 26) press release. HR Signal’s artificial intelligence models predict employee retention risk, career paths and real-time talent insight, according to the release. When added to Enrich Layer’s unified B2B data enrichment application programming interface (API), these capabilities move beyond human resources and provider richer, more contextual data for sales intelligence,…

Brian King //   ADVISORY: The techniques and tools referenced within this blog post may be outdated and do not apply to current situations. However, there is still potential for this blog entry to be used as an opportunity to learn and to possibly update or integrate into modern tools and techniques. Do you know what that browser plugin is doing? There’s a browser plugin for just about everything. You can find one to change the name of your least-favorite politician into something offensive on every page you visit. There are malware blockers and password managers. Gail covered one to…

Why values-led innovation is shaping the next phase of blockchain development As blockchain matures from buzzword to infrastructure, the conversation is evolving beyond speculation and speed. At the heart of this shift is a growing recognition that innovation without ethics is incomplete. Enter a new breed of founders—entrepreneurs who are building blockchain businesses not just for profit, but for purpose. One of the leading voices in this space is Alessio Vinassa, a Web3 entrepreneur known for championing human-centered, transparent innovation. “We cannot afford to treat blockchain as just another tool for financial engineering,” Vinassa explains. “It’s a cultural and philosophical…

If you’ve worked with SCIM for any length of time, you’ve definitely been in this situation. SCIM troubleshooting can feel like detective work – you’re piecing together clues from error logs, identity provider configurations, and network traces to figure out why users who should exist don’t exist, or why they exist but with the wrong permissions. Let me walk you through a systematic approach to SCIM troubleshooting that’ll help you identify and fix provisioning issues quickly. We’ll start with the most common problems and build up to the trickier edge cases that can really stump you. Understanding the SCIM Provisioning…

I had just started experimenting with CrewAI and LangGraph, and it felt like I’d unlocked a whole new dimension of building. Suddenly, I didn’t just have tools and pipelines — I had crews. I could spin up agents that could reason, plan, talk to tools, and talk to each other. Multi-agent systems! Agents that summon other agents! I was practically architecting the AI version of a startup team. Every use case became a candidate for a crew. Meeting prep? Crew. Slide generation? Crew. Lab report review? Crew. It was exciting — until it wasn’t. The more I built, the more…

The Washington Post says that the email accounts of some of its journalists have been hacked. The likely culprits? A foreign government (take your pick…) Why would they want to do that? Because journalists are often afforded access to valuable and sensitive information, and may be in touch with human-rights activists in oppressive regimes. According to the Wall Street Journal: “Staffers were told the intrusions compromised journalists’ Microsoft accounts and could have granted the intruder access to work emails they sent and received… The reporters targeted include those on the national-security and economic-policy teams, including some who write about China”…

OneClik APT campaign targets energy sector with stealthy backdoors Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2025 A OneClik campaign, likely carried out by China-linked actor, targets energy sectors using stealthy ClickOnce and Golang backdoors. Trellix cybersecurity researchers uncovered a new APT malware campaign, OneClik, targeting the energy, oil, and gas sectors. It abuses Microsoft’s ClickOnce deployment tech and custom Golang backdoors. While links to China-affiliated actors are suspected, attribution remains cautious. Threat actors behind the campaign use stealthy “living off the land” tactics and cloud services to evade detection. They deploy Golang backdoors via .NET loaders abusing Microsoft ClickOnce, the campaign shows…

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are the backbone of the global economy. And to be successful, they rely on technology. In this blog we explore top technology trends affecting SMBs and how they can survive and thrive in a hyperconnected world in the era of AI. Top Tech Trends Affecting SMBs Four key trends are currently affecting SMBs. First is the ever-growing need in internet bandwidth. Connectivity needs are constantly growing as more devices join the Wi-Fi network, and more services are consumed from the cloud like AI tools, SaaS and cloud. Second is the need to ensure continuous operations…