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Wild coffee is not normally harvested, but it is crucial to the sustainability of cultivated varieties like Arabica and Rustica. Continue reading More Than Half of Wild Coffee Species Are at Risk of Extinction
Cloud Spanner, Google’s globally distributed relational database service, is getting a bit more distributed today with the launch of a new region and new ways to set up multi-region configurations. The service is also getting a new feature that gives developers deeper insights into their most resource-consuming queries. With this update, Google is adding to […] Continue reading Google’s Cloud Spanner database adds new features and regions
Asana, a service that teams and individuals use to plan and track the progress of work projects, is doubling down on its own project: to shape “the future of work,” in the words of co-founder and CEO Dustin Moskovitz. The startup, whose products are used by millions of free and paying users, today is announcing […] Continue reading Asana, a work management platform, nabs $50M growth round at a $1.5B valuation
Overseas factories can be sort of a mythical topic. News articles remind us that Flex (née Flextronics) employs nearly 200 thousand employees worldwide or that Foxconn is up to nearly a million. It must take an Apple-level of insider knowledge and capital to organize such a behemoth workforce, certainly something well past the level of cottage hardware manufacturing. And the manufacturing floor itself must be a temple to bead blasted aluminum and 20 axis robotic arms gleefully tossing products together. Right?
Well… the reality is a little different. The special sauce turns out to be people who are well trained …read more
Continue reading A Tour Through the Archetypical Asian Factory
Today I don’t have a hack for you. I have a story, one that I hope will prove useful to a few of you who are considering a move to Asia to chase opportunities here.
Seven years ago, I was a pretty stereotypical starving hacker. I had five jobs: A full-time dead-end job in biotech, and four part-time or contract gigs that were either electronic hardware design or programming. I worked perhaps 50 hours a week, and was barely past the poverty line – I was starting to wonder why I spent so much time in school. I saw the …read more
Continue reading Selling Everything, Moving to Asia, and Setting Up a Company
A new report sheds light on the little-understood dark web markets in Asia, showing how they’re driven by cultural differences and local government policies. Researchers from IntSights Cyber Intelligence have investigated dark web cybercrime web… Continue reading Asian Dark Web Communities Thrive on Cultural Differences
A malware campaign earlier this year against members of Tibet’s diaspora was part of a wider operation that also targeted governments and industries in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a new report released Wednesday by Citizen Lab. The malware campaign, active from January into March, targeted Tibetan activists and journalists, members of the Tibetan Parliament in exile and the India-based Central Tibetan Administration, according to Citizen Lab. Relying heavily on low-cost spearphishing techniques, the anonymous attackers disguised malicious PowerPoint and Microsoft Rich Text Format documents as links from human rights NGOs. According to the report, the Tibetan malware targets, wary of unsolicited emails, forwarded the messages to Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto-based interdisciplinary laboratory that specializes in human rights and security. The attacks are similar to a 2016 malware campaign nicknamed the “Parliamentary Campaign” by Citizen Lab. It also targeted parliamentarians. The number of Tibetans in exile is estimated at more than […]
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While the vast majority of Asia-focused cybersecurity research examines government-backed threats, a new report shows that the region’s dark web is becoming a fertile training ground for independent hackers to learn more skills and trade new exploits. Research released Wednesday by New York-based IntSights details a number of Asian countries’ use of websites that require access through special software such as the Tor browser. Hackers in China, Japan, North Korea, Indonesia and Vietnam have adopted the dark web — which is usually associated with U.S. and Russian activity — to create their own criminal communities, the report says. “As the dark web grows, companies and government organizations need to understand that it’s no longer enough to monitor cybercrime activities typically associated with Russian, North Korean or other English-speaking cyber groups,” said Itay Kozuch, Director of Threat Research for IntSights. In a presentation shown to CyberScoop at the Black Hat security conference in […]
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In June of this year, Chinese hackers managed to install software into the networks of a contractor for the U.S. Navy and steal information on a roughly $300 million top secret submarine program. Two years ago, hackers infiltrated the networks of a vendor servicing the Australian military and made off with files containing a trove […] Continue reading RiskRecon’s security assessment services for third party vendors raises $25 million
An application-warping malware campaign in India is aimed at just 13 iPhones in what researchers are calling a “highly targeted” operation. The attackers are using an open-source mobile device management (MDM) server to distribute the malware through popular apps like Telegram and WhatsApp, researchers from Talos, Cisco’s threat intelligence unit, revealed Thursday. The use of MDM, a popular enterprise tool for administering mobile apps, allows hackers to control how their malware is interacting with the target phones. “This campaign is of note since the malware goes to great lengths to replace specific mobile apps for data interception,” researchers Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres, and Andrew Williams wrote in a blog post. The researchers don’t know who was targeted in the campaign, who carried out the attack, or why. While the hackers apparently tried to plant a “false flag” by posing as Russian, evidence suggests they were operating in India, according to Talos. […]
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