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Black & Veatch’s 2025 Water Report provides a layered, unflinching look at the pressures shaping the future of the U.S. water sector. As utilities contend with aging infrastructure, persistent workforce attrition, and the toxic legacy of ‘forever chemicals,’ they also face rising demands linked to digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity threats. The fourteenth edition of the report, grounded in feedback from 680 stakeholders and over a century of utility expertise, outlines an industry standing at a pivotal moment. The 2025 Water Report reveals a sector increasingly squeezed between public health mandates and the urgency to modernize. While half of…

The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime, state-sponsored cyberwarfare, and espionage. Now an indictment of a group of Russian nationals and the takedown of their sprawling botnet offers the clearest example in years of how a single malware operation allegedly enabled hacking operations as varied as ransomware, wartime cyberattacks in Ukraine, and spying against foreign governments.The US Department of Justice today announced criminal charges today against 16 individuals law enforcement authorities have linked to a malware operation known as DanaBot, which according to a complaint infected at…

Available exclusively viaThis high beta Bitcoin proxy sector is lagging behind BTC price 2025 Andjela Radmilac · 2 days ago CryptoSlate’s latest report dives deep into the performance of Bitcoin prxy stocks to analyze how their performance fares in comparison to Bitcoin’s spot price, direct exposure products like ETFs, and indirect vehicles like MSTR.

Learning Supervised learning is a category of machine learning that uses labeled datasets to train algorithms to predict outcomes and recognize patterns. Unlike unsupervised learning, supervised learning algorithms are given labeled training to learn the relationship between the input and the outputs. Prerequisite: Linear algebra Suppose we have a regression problem where the model needs to predict continuous values by taking n number of input features (xi). The prediction value is defined as a function called hypothesis (h): where: θi: i-th parameter corresponding to each input feature (x_i),  ϵ (epsilon): Gaussian error (ϵ ~ N(0, σ²))) As the hypothesis for…

A critical flaw in OpenPGP.js lets attackers spoof message signatures Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2025 A critical flaw in OpenPGP.js, tracked as CVE-2025-47934, lets attackers spoof message signatures; updates have been released to address the flaw. A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-47934, in OpenPGP.js allowed spoofing of message signature verification. OpenPGP.js is an open-source JavaScript library that implements the OpenPGP standard for email and data encryption. It allows developers to integrate secure end-to-end encryption features directly into web applications, browser extensions, or server-side tools using JavaScript. A critical flaw in OpenPGP.js versions 5.0.1 to 5.11.2 and 6.0.0 to 6.1.0 allows…

Are Your Non-human Identities and Secrets Secure? The security of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their secretive credentials has proven to be an essential dimension of data management. NHIs, as machine identities, play a crucial role in businesses, especially those operating. If not managed properly, these non-human identities can expose organizations to risks of significant security breaches and data leaks. Why is NHI Management Paramount? Traditional means of identity management often overlook the importance and complexity of NHI strategies due to their non-human nature. However, given the sophisticated, dynamic nature of present-day cybersecurity threats, businesses must adopt a more encompassing and…

Jordan Drysdale // 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. Sacred Cash Cow Tipping Webcast 2018 follow-up The great Kaspersky Internet Security 2017 antivirus product lived up to and met all of my expectations in testing, so I cheated. At least it feels like cheating. Kaspersky, LIKE ALL OTHER host-based AV and endpoint protection products can be bypassed on…

Malware peddlers are using TikTok videos and the ClickFix tactic to trick users into installing infostealer malware on their computers, Trend Micro researchers have warned. The videos are getting published by a number of TikTok user accounts, seem AI-made, and are apparently attracting a large audience. “The videos [verbally] instruct viewers to run a sequence of commands to purportedly activate legitimate software, such as Windows OS, Microsoft Office, CapCut, and Spotify,” the researchers noted. “The social engineering occurs within the video itself, rather than through detectable code or scripts. There is no malicious code present on the platform for security…

60 packages have been discovered in the NPM index that attempt to collect sensitive host and network data and send it to a Discord webhook controlled by the threat actor. According to Socket’s Threat Research team, the packages were uploaded to the NPM repository starting May 12 from three publisher accounts. Each of the malicious packages contains a post-install script that automatically executes during ‘npm install’ and collects the following information: Hostname Internal IP address User home directory Current working directory Username System DNS servers The script checks for hostnames related to cloud providers, reverse DNS strings, in an attempt to…