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Asia Cement Wins 2026 AREA Social Empowerment Award and Silver Emblem of Sustainability

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TAIPEI, July 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Asia Cement Corporation (ACC) has been honored with the 2026 Asia Responsible Enterprise Awards (AREA) in the Social Empowerment category for its long-term commitment to fostering resilient communities through collaborative engagement with Indigenous tribes and residents in its operating regions.

The company also received the Silver Emblem of Sustainability at the AREA Awards ceremony in recognition of its sustained commitment to sustainable development and positive social impact. Since first participating in the AREA Awards in 2018, ACC has earned AREA recognition for eight consecutive years across multiple sustainability categories.

Chen Zhi-xian, Plant Manager of ACC, traveled to Malaysia to accept the award and the Silver Emblem of Sustainability on behalf of the company.

“Receiving the Silver Emblem of Sustainability in Malaysia on behalf of ACC reinforced the importance that the international community places on sustainable development and community engagement,” Chen said. “ACC will continue strengthening partnerships with Indigenous tribes and local communities through co-governance, dialogue, and participation. Together, we aim to enhance local resilience and create shared value where the environment, industry, and society can thrive side by side.”

The 2026 winning initiative, “Co-Governance Plan with Tribes and Communities: Long-term Actions to Build Local Social Resilience,” highlights ACC’s ongoing efforts to foster meaningful partnerships with Indigenous communities and residents in Hualien County, eastern Taiwan.

Through multi-stakeholder dialogue mechanisms, the company has upheld Indigenous peoples’ rights to consultation and Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) while supporting cultural preservation, ecological education, disaster preparedness, post-disaster recovery, and community development. These efforts have helped establish a model of mutual trust, shared benefits, and long-term collaboration.

In 2025, ACC invested NT$15.52 million (US$480,000) through its “10+11” benefit-sharing mechanism to support local education, cultural initiatives, emergency assistance, and community revitalization programs. The initiative supported five after-school tutoring programs serving 409 children and promoted Truku-language education alongside AI-assisted cultural innovation and creative learning programs.

To further strengthen long-term community resilience, ACC has invested in talent development and educational initiatives that help build local capacity and support sustainable community growth.

ACC also highlighted the success of the Taroko Mountain Market, which was initiated by the company as a platform to support Indigenous culture and local economic development. Through years of collaboration and community participation, the market has gradually evolved from an ACC-organized event into an initiative that is independently managed by tribal residents, demonstrating the growing capacity and resilience of local communities.

To date, the market has generated cumulative sales exceeding NT$1.1 million (US$34,000), with all proceeds directly benefiting Indigenous vendors and community participants while promoting local cultural products and traditions.

In alignment with Article 21 of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples Basic Act, ACC continues to support government efforts to facilitate the restoration of land rights on Indigenous reserved lands. As of 2026, approximately 15% of the relevant land-rights restoration agreements have been completed. The company plans to continue engaging with tribal communities through dialogue platforms and community meetings, supporting follow-up procedures, and fostering mutual trust and long-term prosperity.

Beyond Hualien, ACC has incorporated the principles of co-governance and community engagement across all its operating locations. Through dedicated community liaison offices and communication platforms, the company maintains ongoing dialogue with local stakeholders. In 2025, ACC and its subsidiaries allocated NT$355 million (US$11 million) toward community development and related initiatives, representing 4.22% of the company’s operating profit and reflecting its long-term commitment to creating shared value with local communities.

Since first participating in the AREA Awards in 2018, ACC has been recognized every year across a broad range of sustainability categories, including Green Leadership, Corporate Governance, Circular Economy, Sustainability Reporting, Health and Sanitation, and Social Empowerment. The company’s eight consecutive years of recognition reflect its long-term commitment to sustainable development, responsible governance, environmental stewardship, and positive social impact.

About Asia Cement Corporation

Asia Cement Corporation (ACC) is one of Taiwan’s leading cement and building materials companies and a pioneer in the development of low-carbon cement solutions. The company is committed to advancing low-carbon transformation, circular economy practices, and sustainable development. Through low-carbon product innovation, resource recycling, energy-efficiency improvements, and community engagement initiatives, ACC continues to reduce environmental impact while creating shared value for society. Guided by its commitment to environmental stewardship and social responsibility, the company collaborates closely with stakeholders to promote sustainable industrial transformation and contributes to a more resilient and sustainable future.

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Sun Lena
lena.sun@acc.com.tw 
+886-975593188
+886-227338000

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CyberDagger LLC and Titan Code Solutions Contribute Qihoo 360 BYOVD Primitive to LOLDrivers Catalog

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Joint reverse engineering analysis reveals signed Qihoo 360 hypervisor driver that disables hardware virtualization across all CPUs with a single IOCTL call. Authentication gate fails open when driver is loaded standalone. Finding now live in the LOLDrivers vulnerable driver catalog.

DALLAS, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — CyberDagger LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business specializing in vulnerability research and offensive security, today announced the contribution of a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) primitive to the LOLDrivers catalog following joint analysis with Titan Code Solutions, LLC.

“Two different toolchains, same conclusion. That cross-validation is what makes open-source security research durable.” – John Rodriguez, CEO, CyberDagger LLC

The finding involves Qihoo 360 Total Security’s kernel driver 360hvm64.sys, which manages the product’s hardware-virtualization-based protection engine. When loaded outside the full 360 suite, a single IOCTL call (0x0022240c) disables VT-x (Intel) or AMD-V (AMD) across every logical processor on the machine. The driver’s authentication mechanism depends on a sibling driver that is absent in a BYOVD scenario, causing the gate to fail open.

CyberDagger’s Dagger Forge research pipeline identified the initial primitive through headless reverse engineering automation. Jonathan Reiter, CEO of Titan Code Solutions, independently cross-validated the finding and broadened the analysis to include the full 360 kernel driver stack, identifying two additional IOCTLs and mapping cross-driver communication topology across nine drivers.

The LOLDrivers pull request merged on June 16, 2026, with joint credit to both firms. The contribution includes YARA detection rules, behavioral indicators for SOC teams, and WDAC blocklist guidance.

The MITRE ATT&CK technique is T1562.001, Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools.

A full technical writeup with detection guidance is available on the CyberDagger engineering blog.

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John Rodriguez, Cyberdagger LLC, 1 4699841309, info@cyberdagger.com, https://cyberdagger.com

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CyberDagger LLC and Titan Code Solutions Contribute Qihoo 360 BYOVD Primitive to LOLDrivers Catalog

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Joint reverse engineering analysis reveals signed Qihoo 360 hypervisor driver that disables hardware virtualization across all CPUs with a single IOCTL call. Authentication gate fails open when driver is loaded standalone. Finding now live in the LOLDrivers vulnerable driver catalog.

DALLAS, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — CyberDagger LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business specializing in vulnerability research and offensive security, today announced the contribution of a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) primitive to the LOLDrivers catalog following joint analysis with Titan Code Solutions, LLC.

“Two different toolchains, same conclusion. That cross-validation is what makes open-source security research durable.” – John Rodriguez, CEO, CyberDagger LLC

The finding involves Qihoo 360 Total Security’s kernel driver 360hvm64.sys, which manages the product’s hardware-virtualization-based protection engine. When loaded outside the full 360 suite, a single IOCTL call (0x0022240c) disables VT-x (Intel) or AMD-V (AMD) across every logical processor on the machine. The driver’s authentication mechanism depends on a sibling driver that is absent in a BYOVD scenario, causing the gate to fail open.

CyberDagger’s Dagger Forge research pipeline identified the initial primitive through headless reverse engineering automation. Jonathan Reiter, CEO of Titan Code Solutions, independently cross-validated the finding and broadened the analysis to include the full 360 kernel driver stack, identifying two additional IOCTLs and mapping cross-driver communication topology across nine drivers.

The LOLDrivers pull request merged on June 16, 2026, with joint credit to both firms. The contribution includes YARA detection rules, behavioral indicators for SOC teams, and WDAC blocklist guidance.

The MITRE ATT&CK technique is T1562.001, Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools.

A full technical writeup with detection guidance is available on the CyberDagger engineering blog.

Media Contact

John Rodriguez, Cyberdagger LLC, 1 4699841309, info@cyberdagger.com, https://cyberdagger.com

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Cognizant and OpenAI bring frontier AI cyber defense from vulnerability discovery to validated fixes

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As a member of the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, Cognizant brings the services, security expertise and implementation scale to help enterprises move frontier AI capability into production-grade defense.

TEANECK, N.J., July 2, 2026 /CNW/ — Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) today announced it is applying GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber, through its Frontier AI Cyber Defense services, to help enterprises move faster from vulnerability discovery to validated, tested fixes. As a member of the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, Cognizant is putting frontier AI capability into its security experts’ hands, helping strengthen how clients defend the software they build and operate.

Frontier AI is changing the economics of cyber defense. AI can now help surface vulnerabilities across large, complex codebases with greater speed and scale. But discovery is only the beginning. Protecting the enterprise depends on what comes next: validating which findings are real, understanding their impact, developing and testing a patch and landing the fix before an attacker can act.

The remediation gap is where enterprises must focus their efforts, and where Cognizant has the domain and institutional depth to help deliver, bringing a cybersecurity practice built over more than a decade, with 5,000+ security professionals. Cognizant’s deep experience across regulated industries is intended to give clients the institutional muscle to put frontier capability to work at scale.

“Frontier AI has changed the equation for cyber defense, but a model’s power only matters in how it is applied inside a real enterprise,” said Sandra Notardonato, Global Head of Partner Development and Influencer Relations, Cognizant. “That is where Cognizant’s AI Builder approach is designed to deliver. Our security teams bring these capabilities into our clients’ code and security operations, helping them move from finding exposures to validating and remediating them. The advantage belongs to defenders who can pair frontier capability with the people and context to apply it responsibly, and that is what we aim to deliver at enterprise scale.”

Through its Frontier AI Cyber Defense services, Cognizant’s security professionals apply GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber across authorized defensive workflows, including secure code review, threat modeling, vulnerability discovery and validation, detection engineering, threat hunting, and incident investigation and response. These capabilities are designed to embed into the workflows clients already run, with human validation and oversight at every step. They augment the deterministic controls and monitoring enterprises depend on rather than replacing them, accelerating the path from finding to fix while keeping defenders in control.

“Frontier cyber capability reaches more defenders when partners can operationalize it inside the trusted workflows enterprises already use every day,” said Colleen Kapase, Vice President of Strategic Global Partnerships and Ecosystems, OpenAI. “Cognizant brings cybersecurity domain depth and delivery scale to help enterprises apply these capabilities responsibly, with the oversight and governance required to move from discovery to validated remediation.”

Cognizant applies these capabilities within its own security operations before bringing them to clients, operating as its own Client Zero. Its security teams use GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber across internal defensive workflows, including secure code review, vulnerability triage and validation and pull-request and CI/CD security review, with human validation and oversight at every step. 

In its own environment, Cognizant is applying these capabilities across its estate of products, platforms and internal repositories to accelerate the lifecycle of vulnerability management from discovery to validation through remediation. This operational experience, earned on its own estate, is what Cognizant brings to client engagements.

Cognizant and OpenAI are working together within a framework built for responsible deployment, with scoped access, monitoring and human oversight designed to keep these capabilities in the hands of trusted defenders. It is the foundation for an expanding collaboration, as both companies work to bring frontier cyber defense to more enterprises.

About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.ai or @cognizant. 

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Name Ben Gorelick

Email benjamin.gorelick@cognizant.com 

Europe / APAC

Name Sarah Douglas

Email sarah.douglas@cognizant.com 

India

Name Vipin Nair

Email Vipin.nair@cognizant.com 

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