With a deep background in artificial intelligence and blockchain, Dominic Jainy has a unique vantage point on the evolving threats facing modern technology sectors. He joins us today to dissect the ‘Contagious Interview’ campaign, a sophisticated operation that has turned a developer’s most trusted tool—Visual Studio Code—into a gateway for espionage and theft. We’ll explore how these North Korean-backed actors
In an increasingly competitive financial landscape where members often turn to third-party applications for investment opportunities, Truity Credit Union has launched a decisive initiative to bring those services directly into its own digital ecosystem. The institution announced a strategic partnership with InvestiFi, a prominent provider of digital investment solutions, to embed a comprehensive wealth management platform within its online and
With recent leadership changes and a significant workforce reduction, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is undergoing a profound transformation. To understand the implications of this new direction, we sat down with Dominic Jainy, a veteran IT professional whose work focuses on the intersection of technology and public policy. He offers a critical analysis of the agency’s shift in
When an autonomous AI agent, designed to optimize logistics, independently calls a series of microservices that cascades into a production outage, the question of accountability becomes profoundly complex and urgent. This scenario is no longer theoretical; it represents the new reality reshaping the core principles of platform engineering. The discipline, once focused on simplifying the developer experience, now stands at
A security flaw, once considered a relic of a bygone digital era, has been dramatically reanimated, placing countless enterprise networks in a state of immediate and tangible peril. For years, the NT Lan Manager version 1 (NTLMv1) protocol has been a known liability, a cryptographic ghost lingering in the digital infrastructure of even modern organizations. The recent public release of
A Paradigm Shift in Financial Technology The investment management industry is in the midst of a transformation so swift and profound it can only be described as a revolution, fundamentally reshaping how firms approach decision-making and operations. Artificial Intelligence (AI), once a tool for niche experimentation, has now become a business-critical component for a vast majority of buy-side firms. An
Nikolai Braiden, an early adopter of blockchain, is our resident FinTech expert. He strongly advocates for financial technology’s transformative potential in reshaping digital payment and lending systems and has extensive experience advising startups on leveraging technology to drive innovation and advancement within the industry. Today, we sit down with him to explore the critical priorities facing wealth management firms. Our
The very agency established to serve as the nation’s digital shield now finds itself beleaguered by a relentless confluence of internal decay and escalating external threats, raising fundamental questions about its capacity to safeguard America’s most vital assets. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a cornerstone of the national security apparatus, is currently grappling with a severe degradation of
The very fabric of our interconnected global economy and national security relies on the seamless and secure operation of telecommunications networks, yet this critical infrastructure has become a primary battleground in an increasingly hostile digital landscape. A comprehensive analysis of threat intelligence covering the period from 2022 through 2025 has brought to light a deeply concerning and sustained campaign of
The rise of digital banking is fundamentally reshaping our relationship with money, and nowhere is this more apparent than in Singapore’s competitive fintech landscape. MariBank, the digital arm of Sea Limited, has recently made a significant move by launching an investment product that allows customers to buy into physical gold for as little as S$1. This initiative not only challenges
The once-fragmented map of European WealthTech is being rapidly redrawn as a wave of strategic mergers and acquisitions carves out new empires of influence. This rapid pace of consolidation is reshaping the financial technology landscape, highlighting the immense strategic importance of market dominance. In the European WealthTech sector, where scale and service integration are becoming critical for survival and growth,
The very software designed to maintain and secure corporate networks is now being systematically turned against them, creating a new and insidious threat that bypasses traditional defenses with alarming ease. Threat actors have shifted their focus, recognizing that the path of least resistance often runs through legitimate, trusted applications. This marks a critical inflection point in cybersecurity, where the abuse
