Day: December 22, 2024

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SAP customers have a responsibility when it comes to threat detection and incident response for their systems, whether their applications are running on-premise or in the cloud. These responsibilities are clearer in an on-premise environment where the customer manages secure configuration and operations including the servers on which the solution runs, databases that are in use, and the networking infrastructure. Responsibilities are less clear for cloud operations, which is why a shared responsibility model that includes privacy, compliance management, business continuity planning, and threat detection is essential. This is the case with the Shared Responsibility Model that SAP has published for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
A specific example is that, when an organization moves SAP workloads to the cloud, SAP manages protecting, monitoring, and responding to threats impacting the cloud infrastructure, networking, data stores, and cloud operations. These are the parts of the environment that the customer cannot access directly. Similarly, SAP has no access to the secure configuration and transactions within an application running in an on-premise infrastructure, for example, where customers are responsible for tasks like user provisioning and authorizations, business process configuration, and deciding who can access data and functionality in the system. Even for responding to tickets, SAP cannot access a customer system unless allowed.
Understanding these responsibilities is crucial for customers because unclear roles can lead to oversight of critical elements. This is particularly important because cybersecurity attacks continue to increase in volume and impact. Even if an attack doesn’t directly impact SAP systems, it may indirectly affect these systems through cross-contamination, which can force organizations to shut down SAP systems to prevent them from being impacted.
However, even with a clear understanding of roles, customers may be unsure how to proceed in the event of a cybersecurity incident. SAPinsider research has highlighted that when it comes to threat detection and incident response, organizations still need assistance. The research reveals that 37% of surveyed organizations require guidance on handling detected threats, 34% require guidance on identifying potential threats, and 33% need help understanding how to best use threat detection tools.
Organizations can address these challenges by reporting new security issues to SAP. However, what SAP can achieve will be limited by the access that they have to the system, and a security incident may exceed the expertise or capacity of in-house teams. To support organizations in addressing this, Onapsis has partnered with SAP to provide faster investigation and incident response assistance to SAP customers. Onapsis’ SAP Incident Response enables organizations to use an SAP-endorsed incident response when faced with an attack. Having access to expertise, support, and technology when managing a security incident can help hasten investigations and accelerate recovery.
Security is one of the most important topics for insiders today with, for example, 66% of organizations citing it as a key factor when choosing a cloud provider for RISE with SAP. This is because cybersecurity incidents are increasingly impacting SAP systems either directly or indirectly. Ensuring that systems are secure is top of mind for both SAP and IT organizations. But recognizing security as a priority does not equate having the capabilities or expertise to respond to a security incident. This makes solutions like Onapsis’ SAP Incident Response, a big advantage for organizations as it enables them to use the knowledge and resources that may not be available internally. Given the security challenges faced by organizations today, what should ERP users do to be prepared?
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The Brockton Fire Department has announced the death of one of their own.
On Sunday, the department publicly shared the passing of firefighter Jeffrey Albanese, who suffered a cardiac arrest on Dec. 9 while on-the-job responding to an incident.
Albanese was resuscitated by his fellow firefighters, Brewster EMS and medical staff at Signature Brockton Hospital. He was later transferred to Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston “where he received incredible care,” the department said.
Albanese died just after 11 p.m. on Saturday.
“Firefighter Albanese fought a courageous battle with his family and brother and sister firefighters by his side,” the department wrote in its announcement. “Please keep the Albanese family and Brockton Firefighters Local 144 in your thoughts and prayers.”
Albanese had been with the Brockton Fire Department since 2000, working on Squad A, Ladder Company 1. He most recently served as the senior man of Engine Company 4.
Funeral arrangements will be announced once completed, the department said.
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Day 22 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
Day 22 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: the edge of a spiral. Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens, UGC 10043 is one of the somewhat rare spiral galaxies that are seen edge-on. From this point of view, we see the galaxy’s disk as a sharp line through space, overlaid with a prominent dust lane. One can see the lights of some active star-forming regions in the arms, shining out from behind the dust. Strikingly, we can also see that the center of the galaxy sports a glowing, almost egg-shaped “bulge,” rising far above and below the disk. The unusually large size of this bulge compared with the galaxy’s disk is possibly thanks to UGC 10043 siphoning material from a nearby dwarf galaxy.
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As a result, bitcoin loses its outsider vibe to gain institutional blessing.
Until now, the phrase crypto winter meant that cryptocurrency traders were facing hard times: a period of tumbling and depressed prices that had to be weathered until the good times returned. Today, though, the cryptocurrency industry is enjoying an end-of-year season more akin to “brat summer”: This month, crypto prices hit previously unheard-of highs, with bitcoin trading above $100,000. In this new Era of Good Feelings—to borrow a phrase from early-19th-century American history—skeptics have become believers, and a digital-economic instrument that was designed to circumvent, if not replace, the traditional financial system is becoming more and more integrated into it.
The catalyst for this boom, of course, was last month’s election of Donald Trump. Bitcoin’s price fell this week, but it’s still up almost 40 percent since November 5, and other major cryptocurrencies, such as ethereum and ripple, have seen similar spikes. It’s not hard to see why. Trump nominated Cantor Fitzgerald CEO and crypto enthusiast Howard Lutnick to be his secretary of commerce. He named Paul Atkins, also a crypto advocate, as the next head of the Securities Exchange Commission, replacing Gary Gensler, who became crypto’s bête noire for bringing lawsuits against the biggest crypto exchanges and numerous other players in the industry. And Trump recently repeated his campaign promise to set up a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, which would require the Treasury Department to purchase billions of dollars’ worth of the cryptocurrency and hold it as a “permanent national asset.”
On top of the regulatory environment growing markedly more crypto-friendly, other bullish signs have emerged as well. Last week, the investment giant BlackRock, which back in January was one of 10 companies to issue exchange-traded funds tied to bitcoin, released a report suggesting that investors “with suitable governance and risk tolerance” (meaning tolerance for little governance and lots of risk) should consider having as much as 2 percent of their assets in bitcoin. And MicroStrategy, a software company whose business nowadays consists almost entirely of issuing stock and convertible debt in order to buy bitcoin, was just added to the Nasdaq-100 after its stock rose more than 600 percent in the first 10 months of the year. All of the good news has bitcoin owners—also known as HODLers, a moniker derived from a common online typo of hold that was then also said to stand for “hold on for dear life”—feeling buoyant: On X, predictions of bitcoin hitting $1 million by the end of 2025 are easy to find.
I first wrote about bitcoin in 2011, when one Bitcoin cost about $14, and even then, I thought it was a bubble. Had I just taken a flyer and bought $1,000 of it, I’d be a multimillionaire today. So for longtime bitcoin skeptics like me, a measure of chagrin at having been so wrong about crypto’s evolution is difficult to avoid. At the same time, what’s been fascinating about the popular embrace of bitcoin is that the reasons to be skeptical of it never disappeared: It’s still an enormously volatile asset; its price is still mostly dependent on sentiment rather than underlying fundamental value; it’s still ill-suited to be a widely used digital currency. What’s changed is that the investment world has decided none of those things really matter. As is true of gold, bitcoin is valuable because people have collectively decided it’s valuable. In effect, HODLers have succeeded in conjuring a respectable asset out of thin air.
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Respectability doesn’t mean stability. The history of crypto over the past decade is one of big spikes driven by positive sentiment, rapidly followed by crashes. Bitcoin’s value has fallen by 49 percent or more on at least half a dozen occasions, and there’s no reason to believe that it’s now reached a permanently high plateau. (Indeed, just this past week, after hitting an all-time high of about $108,000, bitcoin’s price fell almost 15 percent in days, and MicroStrategy saw its stock fall more than 40 percent over the past month.) Yet even if determining a fair price for Bitcoin remains a near-impossible task (which is why I’ll never buy it), treating its value as simply the product of a hysterical bubble mentality—which was once a common critique—feels outdated. In keeping with its buccaneering, unregulated origins, the crypto industry is still rife with sketchy so-called memecoins and shitcoins, not to mention promoters promising 1,000 percent returns in a matter of days. But bitcoin itself has become practically blue-chip.
The reasons bitcoin has become so highly valued are not the reasons that advocates originally argued would make it valuable. Bitcoin was designed to be a currency that people could use for trustless transactions—transactions that could be carried out without need for a financial intermediary such as a bank. But transactions in which bitcoin is used to buy or sell goods and services make up only a tiny fraction of the currency’s total trading volume, most of which is made up of people buying or selling bitcoin itself. Bitcoin’s real use, it turns out, is not as a medium of exchange, but as a secure, portable, accessible store of value, something that can be quite valuable, particularly in countries where inflation or confiscatory government policy is a problem.
Similarly, bitcoin was designed to facilitate decentralized person-to-person transactions, but most bitcoin trading, at least in the West, now takes place on centralized exchanges. Again, in its liberatory promise, bitcoin was supposed to not just be independent of traditional financial institutions and government, but also enable alternatives to them. Yet the big engine of the price boom of the past two years has been bitcoin’s integration into the conventional investment industry (through such vehicles as exchange-traded funds, or ETFs), increased purchases by institutional investors and corporations, and now the prospect of legitimization by the government itself. That may include government buying of bitcoin—though exactly why Uncle Sam would want to own such a volatile asset is a question no one has yet answered persuasively.
This integration has a couple of striking consequences. The first is that, for all of its benefits, it also adds a whole new set of risks to an already risky asset—if, say, Trump does not follow through on his promise to set up a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, bitcoin’s price will likely take a tumble. The other, more substantive, consequence is that the revolutionary promise of bitcoin has largely vanished—no one really thinks it will replace, or even meaningfully weaken, fiat currencies such as the dollar, nor is it going to threaten the financial primacy of Wall Street. Cryptocurrencies will always have a special appeal for people who are skeptical of the system and convinced that economic disaster is on the horizon. But what the past six weeks have shown is that most bitcoin HODLers don’t want to bring down the system. They want bitcoin to become a part of it.
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On December 21, 2024, armored vehicle researcher Andriy Tarasenko shared a video on his Telegram channel Btvt.info, highlighting a significant development in the ongoing military collaboration between Russia and North Korea. The footage shows what appears to be the transport of North Korean KN-15 Pukguksong-2 ballistic missiles and M1989 Koksan 170mm self-propelled howitzers being moved into Russia, likely intended for deployment in the war against Ukraine.
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Video footage shared on Telegram by Andriy Tarasenko shows what appears to be North Korean KN-15 Pukguksong-2 ballistic missiles being transported by train for delivery to Russia, likely in support of Russian military operations in Ukraine. (Picture source: Telegram)
While the video’s quality makes it challenging to identify the vehicles definitively, their notable resemblance to known North Korean missile systems, particularly the KN-15 Pukguksong-2 ballistic missile launchers, strongly suggests a major arms shipment being delivered to Russian forces.
This delivery is part of a broader trend of increasing defense cooperation between Russia and North Korea, which has intensified since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Moscow, facing depleting stockpiles due to the prolonged conflict, has turned to North Korea for military supplies, which are seen as essential to sustaining Russia's military operations. The new shipment, consisting of advanced missiles and artillery systems, is just the latest in a series of arms transfers that have included more than 100 artillery systems, ballistic missiles, and millions of artillery shells.
Since the war began, North Korea has played a growing role in supporting Russia’s military efforts. According to intelligence reports, North Korea has supplied over 100 pieces of artillery to Russia, including 170mm M-1989 Koksan self-propelled howitzers and 240mm M-1991 multiple rocket launchers. These systems are crucial to Russia’s artillery-heavy tactics in Ukraine, where long-range bombardment and fire support are key elements of its military strategy. In addition to the artillery, North Korea has reportedly delivered more than 5 million artillery shells and 100 short-range ballistic missiles, including the KN-23 and KN-24 types, which have already been used in attacks on Ukrainian positions.
Reports have also surfaced indicating that North Korean soldiers have been deployed to assist Russian forces on the ground. According to intelligence from Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (DIU), over 11,000 North Korean personnel are stationed in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, with some reportedly taking part in combat operations against Ukrainian forces. These soldiers may be helping to operate North Korean artillery systems, providing training, or directly assisting in military engagements. Their involvement represents a new and direct form of support for Russia in its fight against Ukraine.
The KN-15 Pukguksong-2 ballistic missile is a medium-range missile that has been developed as part of North Korea’s advanced missile arsenal. With a range of 1,200 to 2,000 km, the Pukguksong-2 can strike deep into Ukrainian territory, hitting major cities, military bases, and critical infrastructure far from the frontlines. This missile could potentially be used to target strategic locations in Ukraine, including military command centers and vital supply routes. Furthermore, the Pukguksong-2 is capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads, offering a flexible and highly potent strike capability.
One of the key advantages of the Pukguksong-2 is its solid-fuel propulsion system, which makes the missile more mobile and easier to deploy compared to traditional liquid-fueled systems. Solid fuel allows for quick launches with minimal preparation, enabling rapid strikes against targets and reducing the risk of interception. This feature gives the missile a significant edge, as it can be launched from mobile platforms, making it harder to detect and destroy before launch. Given the current dynamics of the conflict, where both sides rely heavily on missile strikes and counter-strikes, quickly launching a ballistic missile and evading enemy detection is a major operational advantage.
The Pukguksong-2 is also designed for precision, making it a dangerous weapon capable of accurately striking specific targets. While it may not match the level of precision offered by more advanced Western missile systems, it is still highly effective for long-range strikes. The missile’s flexibility, combined with its range, provides Russian forces with the ability to threaten Ukrainian positions across the country, far beyond the immediate frontlines, complicating Ukraine’s defense strategies.
The increasing flow of advanced North Korean arms to Russia, including the KN-15 Pukguksong-2 and M1989 Koksan howitzers, further complicates the already dire situation for Ukrainian forces. These deliveries represent a substantial escalation in the military threat facing Ukraine, particularly as Russia continues to prioritize artillery and missile systems in its strategy. The addition of more powerful and precise weapons systems, along with North Korean-trained personnel operating them, is expected to strain Ukraine’s ability to counter Russian offensives and to defend critical infrastructure.
The expanded military partnership between Russia and North Korea has wide-reaching implications for the war in Ukraine and for global security. North Korea’s support of Russia provides the latter with the arms and ammunition it desperately needs to continue its military operations while also strengthening the ties between two of the world’s most isolated and sanctioned regimes. The continued flow of North Korean weapons, including missiles, artillery systems, and ammunition, will likely allow Russia to sustain its military momentum, prolonging the conflict and intensifying the challenges for Ukraine’s defense.
Furthermore, the involvement of North Korean soldiers on the frontlines raises concerns about the future trajectory of the war. North Korean personnel may bring with them specialized knowledge of operating North Korean military systems, offering Russia a boost in its artillery and missile capabilities. The direct engagement of North Korean troops also suggests a deeper level of involvement that could escalate the conflict further, especially if these troops engage directly with Ukrainian forces.
As the situation evolves, the international community will be closely watching the unfolding developments. The growing military support from North Korea to Russia is likely to provoke strong responses from Western powers, who are already deeply involved in providing military aid to Ukraine. Sanctions and diplomatic measures may be intensified as a result, but the supply of arms from North Korea to Russia underscores the increasingly complex and global nature of the war.
The delivery of KN-15 Pukguksong-2 ballistic missiles and artillery systems is just one of many challenges facing Ukraine as it continues to defend itself against Russia’s ongoing aggression. The involvement of North Korean forces, alongside the advanced weaponry being supplied, marks a significant shift in the dynamics of the conflict, with potentially far-reaching consequences for both the immediate battlefield and the broader geopolitical landscape.

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