      IntroductionIn this project, I set up infrastructure on the AWS cloud using Terraform. The infrastructure includes 4 web servers and 2 database instances. The specific tasks done include:      Tasks:Writing a Terraform Script that provisions the servers and databases in a highly available environment.Uniquely naming each instance and Install Apache on the instancesPushing the Terraform script to GitHub for version control.Creating a Jenkins job that automatically detects changes in the terraform script on GitHub and deploys the changes.      Project Execution      Infrastructure Architecture Design:The very first step done was to determine the AWS resources required to meet the design needs and then designing the infrastructure architecture of the system. This step includes deciding on the AWS services required for the task, defining the infrastructure components, and their relationships.Here is the architecture diagram of the resources required in AWS cloud to meet the requireme

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Sign upSign inSign upSign inSamir SaciFollowTowards Data Science--ListenShareSustainable sourcing is the process of integrating social, ethical and environmental performance factors when selecting suppliers.This includes assessing and evaluating suppliers based on sustainability criteria such as health and safety, environmental impacts or labour rights.The aim is to minimize the negative impacts on the environment and maximize the positive social impacts.As a Data Science Manager, can you develop tools to streamline the process of supplier selection?Supply Chain Network design tools automatically select the best suppliers that minimize costs and meet the market demand while respecting constraints defined by your sustainability team.In this article, we will explore how you can use data science in your organization to support the implementation of sustainable sourcing.Let us take the example used in the previous articles about Life Cycle Assessment.You are the Data Science Manager of an international clothing group that has stores all around the world.The company sources garments, bags, and accessories from suppliers located in Asia.Stores are delivered from local warehouses that are directly replenished by suppliers.Can you automatically select suppliers that minimize your costs while respecting environmental and social constraints?The sourcing team has decided to implement sustainable sourcing on the limited scope of T-shirt suppliers.They want to review their supplier selection process to support the company’s sustainability roadmap.However, they are facing several obstaclesTherefore, they request your help deploying a product to monitor suppliers’ KPIs and automate the selection.Let’s see how data analytics can answer this problem.I will use a simple example with a limited range of indicators for this article.We can quickly review them to understand their definition and how to measure them.Carbon emissionsThe primary indicator that will drive your sustainability roadmap is the carbon footprint of the supply chain.This can be measured by calculating the total emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.💡 What should we consider?The first two metrics should be collected from the suppliers, but your team can calculate the third one.The formula is quite straightforwardThe data sources areIf you need more information, I have detailed the process in this articletowardsdatascience.comEnergy consumptionAnother indicator is the amount of energy consumed by the supplier to produce and deliver products.It can be expressed in Joules used per production unit (called functional units in the Life Cycle Assessment Methodology).💡 What should we consider?The sourcing team should collect this metric.Water usageAs it becomes a scarce resource, new regulations are pushing companies to redesign their processes for water consumption reduction.With this indicator, you can focus on suppliers that do not affect the local water supply.💡 What should we consider?Waste generationMeasuring the amount of waste generated during production can help identify areas for adopting more sustainable production methods.💡 What should we consider?Social indicatorsThese indicators assess suppliers’ performance in terms of social sustainability.You can conduct your own audits or use third-party assessments.💡 How to Measure it?Your sourcing team assigns a weight to each criterion in the scorecard below.The auditors calculate a score linked to each criterion to represent the supplier’s performance.The total score is a pondered average of the scores that provide a general supplier assessment.The first support you can provide to your sourcing team is to streamline the data collection and storage process using data analytics tools.A data lake can be a central source of unstructured and structured data (databases, excel files, …).You can implement automated pipelines to extract, process and analyze these data to build reports and provide insights.This can lead to the implementation of data products that can be used for reporting and the optimization models I will present in the next section.For more information on the best practices and methodologies to automate this exercise, look at this article about Life Cycle Assessment.towardsdatascience.comWe can use this data to drive decisions now that we have collected information about suppliers and performed audits with scoring.The sourcing team’s main obstacle was the problem’s complexity considering the number of different metrics and suppliers.They use Excel files with limited automation; this restrains their processing capacity.Therefore, the idea is to use advanced analytics to automatically design sourcing and logistics networks to deliver your stores.I will use an example with dummy data to understand how to implement a data-driven methodology to select suppliers considering environmental factors.You want to redefine the Supply Chain Network of your fast fashion retail company for the next five years.You have stores in 5 different markets worldwide (USA, Germany, Japan, India and Brazil).In each market, you can select a supplier to produce your t-shirts and choose to source from abroad.You would like to select the right set of suppliers to minimize the cost of production and delivery considering.Your overseas suppliers are cheaper, but you must pay high freight costs to deliver to your market with higher CO2 emissions for transportation.Moreover, the sustainability team has implemented constraints on maximum environmental impact per T-shirt produced including water usage, CO2 emissions, energy usage and waste generated.The sourcing team needs linear programming support to manage these complex tradeoffs and decide which suppliers to select.Let me illustrate my point with the example below, in which I will gradually add environmental constraints to see the impact on the footprint.If you define the objective function to minimize the costs without additional constraints, you can easily guess that it will maximize the volume produced in India and Brazil.💡 InsightsWhat if we want to add sustainability constraints?As your company implements a sustainability roadmap, you must add additional constraints limiting the environmental impact per T-shirt produced and delivered.Therefore, your procurement team has contacted local suppliers in your predominant markets (USA, Japan).What would be the impact on your sourcing network?We can start by adding constraints on the average energy and water consumption per unit produced.Your suppliers in Germany and Japan heavily invested in modern equipment to reduce the environmental impact of their operations.💡 InsightsWhat if we add CO2 emissions constraints?Transportation accounts for a considerable part of the CO2 footprint of your Supply Chain.Therefore, you would like to reduce the impact of upstream flows by limiting the CO2 emissions of💡 InsightsWith this simple exercise, you can get the potential of these solutions to accelerate the decision-making process by testing several scenarios.If you want to try it yourself, I have deployed this solution in a web application hosted on the VIKTOR platform.You can upload your dataset or use the sample available in the app to test different scenarios.For more details about this solution, have a look at this article published on Towards Data Science.towardsdatascience.comWhen implementing a green transformation, companies face many challenges related to change management and complex decision-making processes.As a data analytics professional, you can support this transformation by facilitating data collection and partially automating decision-making using optimization models.Sourcing teams can easily add constraints in their supplier selection process to follow the guidance of the sustainability team.By showing the financial impact of each scenario, you facilitate the decision-making process by highlighting the balance between sustainability and cost efficiency.These results can trigger strategic discussions to find the right balance between sustainable sourcing and cost reduction.Let’s connect on Linkedin and Twitter; 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Have you seen a tweet from Grimes making fun of her former partner, Elon Musk, for saying that wealthy ex-wives are destroying Western civilization? The Grimes tweet is fake. The musician didn’t actually poke fun at Musk over the comment. The Musk tweet, on the other hand, is completely real.“’Super rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse’ should filed be listed among ‘Reasons that Western Civilization died,’” the billionaire SpaceX CEO tweeted on Wednesday.Musk’s very real tweet was a response to a user on X who was criticizing MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, over the kinds of organizations to which she donates her money. Scott has given away at least $16 billion since her divorce. But the groups she’s giving to are apparently too woke, in this particular person’s opinion.And that’s when Musk, a billionaire who’s been married three times, chimed in to give his two cents about how wealthy ex-wives are somehow destroying civilization. Musk didn’t elaborate on how that could be possible, but we digress. All of this is the background necessary to understand the fake Grimes tweet that’s currently going viral.“Is the ex-wife destroying Western Civilization in the room with us right now?” the snarky fake tweet from Grimes reads.Musk is the father of at least two children with Grimes, who is often used as a foil in photoshopped jokes about the billionaire. But this one isn’t a real tweet from the musician.Who created this fake tweet to make it look like it was sent by Grimes? That appears to be an X account with the name Trap Queen Enthusiast and the handle @marionumber4. Gizmodo confirmed with the creator they indeed conjured this joke into existence on Wednesday, and it seems to be taking on a life of its own, as memes have been known to do.You can even find the fake tweet on Bluesky, a competitor to X, where people there also believe it’s real.“Better men have deleted their accounts and retired from the internet after burns half as severe as that,” one Bluesky user said late Wednesday.And just in case you didn’t think the chain of custody on this fake tweet wasn’t complex enough, another fake screenshot of the Grimes tweet has been created to make it look like a Community Note has been added.“While she did bear multiple of Elon’s children, Grimes was never technically married to Elon. Elon’s only real ex-wife is merely kinda rich,” the fake Community Note reads.And that’s how these things spread. A joke that most people within a small online circle fully understand as a joke will break containment, spreading across the internet and even jumping to other social media sites. And then people are left to wonder whether it’s real or not—be it Mike Lindell supposedly driving drunk or an adorable croissant in the shape of a dinosaur. Checking the official Grimes X account won’t answer the mystery either, as it’s not there and anyone who’s asked can only respond that maybe she deleted it. Well, we’re here to tell you this one is fake because we confirmed it with the creator. But, again, we can’t stress enough that Musk’s bizarre tweet about ex-wives destroying Western civilization is very real. He really is just a very strange dude.

No, Grimes Didn't Make Fun of Elon Musk for Saying Rich Ex-Wives Have Destroyed Civilization. You can even find the fake tweet on Bluesky, a competitor to X, where people there also believe it’s real.“Better men have deleted their accounts and retired from the internet after burns half as severe as that,” one Bluesky user said late Wednesday

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Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced Wednesday that users on the chat app with personal accounts can now convert them into business accounts by paying a monthly fee. This gives users the ability to list information such as location and opening hours, which might be helpful for small cafes and shop owners.Some of the other features for business accounts involve organizing chats with color labels, using automatic greetings or away messages, and shortcuts for quick replies. On his channel, Durov said that Telegram plans to launch more business features this month including a way to integrate AI-powered chatbots for customer service.“Telegram Business accounts will be able to seamlessly add chatbots as their invisible secretaries to respond to all or certain chats. With AI, these chatbots can bring customer service automation to an entirely new level,” he said.Telegram is trying to compete with WhatsApp Business, which crossed the mark of 200 million monthly active users last year, with these new features. However, a major differentiation is that Telegram is charging a subscription fee to use business features, while WhatsApp relies on the type of conversations and frequency of chats to generate revenue.Meta-owned WhatsApp introduced many business-facing features last year including personalized customer messages and flows to complete e-commerce transactions without leaving the app.Over the last two years, Telegram has focused on increasing its business through premium subscriptions, self-custodial crypto wallet, and auction of premium usernames. The chat app, which has more than 800 million users across the globe, is also planning to launch its ad platform this month with a revenue-sharing program for channels.

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Threat actors have been leveraging fake websites advertising popular video conferencing software such as Google Meet, Skype, and Zoom to deliver a variety of malware targeting both Android and Windows users since December 2023."The threat actor is distributing Remote Access Trojans (RATs) including SpyNote RAT for Android platforms, and NjRAT and DCRat for Windows systems," Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers said.The spoofed sites are in Russian and are hosted on domains that closely resemble their legitimate counterparts, indicating that the attackers are using typosquatting tricks to lure prospective victims into downloading the malware.They also come with options to download the app for Android, iOS, and Windows platforms. While clicking on the button for Android downloads an APK file, clicking on the Windows app button triggers the download of a batch script.The malicious batch script is responsible for executing a PowerShell script, which, in turn, downloads and executes the remote access trojan.Currently, there is no evidence that the threat actor is targeting iOS users, given that clicking on the button for the iOS app takes the user to the legitimate Apple App Store listing for Skype."A threat actor is using these lures to distribute RATs for Android and Windows, which can steal confidential information, log keystrokes, and steal files," the researchers said.The development comes as the AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) revealed that a new malware dubbed WogRAT targeting both Windows and Linux is abusing a free online notepad platform called aNotepad as a covert vector for hosting and retrieving malicious code.It's said to be active from at least late 2022, targeting Asian countries like China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, among others. That said, it's currently not known how the malware is distributed in the wild."When WogRAT is run for the first time, it collects basic information of the infected system and sends them to the C&C server," ASEC said. "The malware then supports commands such as executing commands, sending results, downloading files, and uploading these files."It also coincides with high-volume phishing campaigns orchestrated by a financially motivated cybercriminal actor known as TA4903 to steal corporate credentials and likely follow them with business email compromise (BEC) attacks. The adversary has been active since at least 2019, with the activities intensifying post mid-2023."TA4903 routinely conducts campaigns spoofing various U.S. government entities to steal corporate credentials," Proofpoint said. "The actor also spoofs organizations in various sectors including construction, finance, healthcare, food and beverage, and others."Attack chains involve the use of QR codes (aka quishing) for credential phishing as well as relying on the EvilProxy adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kit to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) protections.Once a target mailbox is compromised, the threat actor has been observed searching for information relevant to payments, invoices, and bank information, with the ultimate goal of hijacking existing email threads and performing invoice fraud.Phishing campaigns have also functioned as a conduit for other malware families like DarkGate, Agent Tesla, and Remcos RAT, the last of which leverages steganographic decoys to drop the malware on compromised hosts.State of AI in the Cloud 2024Find out what 150,000+ cloud accounts revealed about the AI surge.Goodbye, Atlassian Server. Goodbye… Backups?Protect your data on Atlassian Cloud from disaster with daily backups and on-demand restores.Take Action Fast with Censys Search for Security TeamsStay ahead of advanced threat actors with best-in-class threat intelligence from Censys Search.Find out what 150,000+ cloud accounts revealed about the AI surge.From Humans to Bots: Every Identity in Your SaaS App Could Be a Backdoor for Cybercriminals.Learn how to protect your innovations from emerging security threats with expert advice.Sign up for free and start receiving your daily dose of cybersecurity news, insights and tips.

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The Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart is planning to enter the quick-commerce business, aimed at providing customers with the convenience of receiving their orders instantly after making their purchases, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.The firm, majorly owned by Walmart, plans to make the instant-delivery service available in select locations as early as May this year, the source said, requesting anonymity as the matter is private. The deliberations are ongoing and the timeline may slightly change, the source cautioned.A Flipkart spokesperson said the Bengaluru-headquartered e-commerce firm is “committed to meeting evolving customer expectations and delivering excellence in value, selection and speed, with more initiatives expected on this front in the coming months.”Flipkart, valued at over $30 billion, has been steadily laying the groundwork to improve its delivery time for quite some time. It has heavily invested in its supply chain infrastructure over the years, with a particular focus on reducing delivery times for grocery items. These efforts have allowed Flipkart to offer same-day and next-day delivery options.The new foray comes at a time when Flipkart is also engaging to explore acquiring the instant-delivery startup Dunzo, TechCrunch reported last month. The overarching ownership of Reliance on Dunzo has complicated the conversations, however, the report added.Flipkart’s interest in quick-commerce coincides with the ambitious expansion plans of instant-commerce players such as Swiggy, Zepto, and Zomato’s BlinkIt. These companies are aggressively widening their product offerings, venturing beyond grocery delivery to include a diverse range of items, from daily essentials to electronic gadgets, in a bid to capture a larger slice of India’s burgeoning e-commerce pie.Quick-commerce has shifted from an “adjacent offering” to becoming a “core offering” for food delivery players, Bernstein analysts wrote in a recent note. Quick-commerce accounts for about 40% of the online grocery delivery category, the analysts said.“Quick commerce with a potential TAM of ~$45 billion (~7% of the grocery market of $620 billion),” they wrote. “Serviceable market is metros/Tier1 cities (~17%). Mid-to-high income households (~60%) and top-up orders (~70%). We estimate quick-commerce GMV to grow to $6.2 billion by 2025.”Indian news outlet Entrackr first reported some of the details of Flipkart’s instant commerce play Thursday.“At Flipkart, customer-centricity is at the core of everything we do. We constantly work towards delivering a wide range of products to customers with speed,” a Flipkart spokesperson said. “Over the past few months, we have made several investments to enhance our delivery capabilities, including adding same-day delivery in 20 cities. This covers mobiles, essential items, electronics, home appliances, fashion, books and lifestyle products.”

India's Flipkart readies quick-commerce play | TechCrunch. The Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart is planning to enter the quick-commerce business, aimed at providing customers with the convenience of receiving their orders instantly after making their purchases, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch