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The benefits offered by the latest batch of open-sourced hacking tools are familiar godsends to DevOps or security teams, simplifying workflows, tackling human error through automation, and uncovering otherwise hard-to-find flaws.

Also surfacing recently was a demonstration showing how to weaponize the humble USB cable, and a novel but simple way of deterring ransomware attacks emerged – in timely fashion – during the same month that the US Colonial Pipeline attack netted the assailants a payout of $4.3 million (much of which may have been later seized by the US Department of Justice).