Author: HackWatchit

For many years, the idea that publicly traded corporations might buy Bitcoin for their reserves was considered laughable. The top cryptocurrency was considered too volatile, too fringe to be embraced by any serious business.That taboo has been well and truly broken, with a number of major institutional investors buying up Bitcoin in recent years.The floodgates first opened when cloud software company Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) bought $425 million worth of Bitcoin in August and September 2020. Others followed suit, including payments processor Block and electric car manufacturer Tesla.Per BitcoinTreasuries, public companies holding Bitcoin now account for 2.8% of the total supply…

Storm-2372 used the device code phishing technique since August 2024 Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2025 Russia-linked group Storm-2372 used the device code phishing technique since Aug 2024 to steal login tokens from governments, NGOs, and industries. Microsoft Threat Intelligence researchers warn that threat actor Storm-2372, likely linked to Russia, has been targeting governments, NGOs, and various industries across multiple regions since August 2024. The attackers employ a phishing technique called “device code phishing,” which tricks users into logging into productivity apps while capturing login tokens that can be used to take over compromised accounts. “Our ongoing investigation indicates that this…

by Austin Kaiser // Intern Hacking a satellite is not a new thing. Satellites have been around since 1957. The first satellite launched was called Sputnik 1 and was launched by the Soviet Union. It was a simple machine that sat in space at LEO (Low Earth Orbit). The only thing it could do was send radio signals back to the ground stations they set up. After three weeks, the thing died. But this was just the beginning. It did not take long for satellites to advance. Just two years later, the first successful weather satellite launched from the US,…

OPSWAT, a vendor of critical infrastructure protection, announced Thursday that its MetaDefender Optical Diode, specifically the Din Rail version, has achieved Class 1 Division 2 (C1D2) certification, setting a new benchmark in safety and cybersecurity for hazardous environments. This certification ensures that MetaDefender Optical Diode meets the strict operational and safety standards required for industries where reliability is paramount. The C1D2 certification is essential for organizations operating in environments with potential explosive hazards, such as oil and gas, chemical processing, and pharmaceutical industries, where combustible gases, vapors, or dust pose significant risks. This certification assures organizations that the MetaDefender Optical…

In this latest part of my series, I will share what I have learned on selecting a model for Image Classification and how to fine tune that model. I will also show how you can leverage the model to accelerate your labelling process, and finally how to justify your efforts by generating usage and performance statistics. In Part 1, I discussed the process of labelling your image data that you use in your image classification project. I showed how define “good” images and create sub-classes. In Part 2, I went over various data sets, beyond the usual train-validation-test sets, with benchmark sets,…

Two-step verification, two-factor authentication, multi-factor authentication…whatever your social media platform calls it, it’s an excellent way to protect your accounts. There’s a good chance you’re already using multi-factor verification with your other accounts — for your bank, your finances, your credit card, and any number of things. The way it requires an extra one-time code in addition to your login and password makes life far tougher for hackers. It’s increasingly common to see nowadays, where all manner of online services only allow access to your accounts after you’ve provided a one-time passcode sent to your email or smartphone. That’s where…

Electric AI, a New York-based IT platform provider serving nearly 1,000 customers and over 55,000 end-users, faced the critical challenge of securing not only their own infrastructure but also protecting sensitive data across multiple industries. As a managed security provider (MSP), they needed a solution that would meet stringent regulatory compliance requirements while maintaining robust security measures. The Search for Comprehensive Security “The security of our customers is our business, and that makes our goal keeping ourselves as secure as possible. That requires us to identify and procure the best security technologies we can find,” says Andrew Tynan, a director…

As well as being insecure, the DOGE website heavily leans on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. DOGE’s homepage is a feed of its own X posts, but it also uses code that directs search engines to X.com instead of DOGE.gov, a WIRED review of the site found. “This isn’t usually how things are handled, and it indicates that the X account is taking priority over the actual website itself,” one developer told WIRED.Chinese TikTok alternative RedNote gained around 700,000 US users and courted American influencers when the ban on TikTok loomed in January. While many of those…

British legal professionals have seen a “significant surge” in data breaches, according to new research from NetDocuments, a firm that provides a cloud-based content management platform for the legal sector.The firm has described how it analysed data from the UK regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), and discovered that the number of data breaches in the country’s legal sector had grown by 39% between Q3 2023 and Q2 2024 to 2,284 cases, compared to 1,633 the same period 12 months earlier.Furthermore, the company found that data related to 7.9 million people had been compromised, a figure which amounts to one…