Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Facebook addressed a vulnerability in Instagram that could have allowed attackers to access private user information. The security researcher @ZHacker13 discovered a flaw in Instagram that allowed an attacker to access account information, including user phone number and real name. ZHacker13 discovered the vulnerability in August and reported the issue to Facebook that asked for additional time to address the issue.

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DXC Technology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

“Software is eating the world.” That was the bold proclamation renowned innovator and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen expressed in an article he wrote for the Wall Street Journal. More and more businesses are being run by software, he argued, or are differentiating themselves and disrupting their competitors and industries using the same. Today, that article […].

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Drone attacks have hit two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, one of them is the Abqaiq site. Drone attacks have hit Saudi Arabia’s oil production suffered severe damage following a swarm of explosive drones that hit two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia. Online are circulating the images of a huge blaze at Abqaiq, site of Aramco’s largest oil processing plant, the Abqaiq site.

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The Guardian Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Online campaign gathering information on voters may be illegal, claims data protection expert The Conservatives are at risk of breaking data laws by gathering information about pro-Brexit voters through an online campaign, it has emerged. A Tory party webpage calling on voters to “Back Brexit” is cause for concern, according to legal advice from a leading data protection lawyer.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Cofense experts uncovered a new variant of the Astaroth Trojan that uses Facebook and YouTube in the infection process. Researchers at Cofense have uncovered a phishing campaign targeting Brazilian citizens with the Astaroth Trojan that uses Facebook and YouTube in the infection process. The attach chain appears to be very complex and starts with phishing messages that come with an.htm file attached.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Researcher discovered an unsecured database exposed online, belonging to car dealership marketing firm Dealer Leads, containing 198 million records. The researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database exposed online that belong to car dealership marketing firm Dealer Leads. The archive containing 198 million records for a total of 413GB of data containing information of potential car buyers, vehicles, loan and finance inquiries, log data with IP addresses of visitors, and more. ̶

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eDiscovery Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In Crosmun v. Trustees of Fayetteville Technical Community College, No. COA18-1054 (N.C. Ct. App. Aug. 6, 2019) , the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, holding that the trial court abused its discretion by compelling production through a protocol that provided the plaintiffs’ expert with direct access to potentially privileged information and precluded reasonable efforts by Defendants to avoid waiving any privilege, vacated the order and remand for further proceedings not inconsistent wi

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The Tor Project has raised $86,000 for a Bug Smash fund that it will use to pay developers that will address critical flaws in the popular anonymizing network. The Tor Project has raised $86,000 for a Bug Smash fund that was created to pay developers that will address critical security and privacy issues in the popular anonymizing network. In earlier of August, the Tor Project announced the creation of the Bug Smash Fund with the intent to pay professionals that will support the organization in

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you! Experts found Joker Spyware in 24 apps in the Google Play store. Toyota Boshoku Corporation lost over $37 Million following BEC attack.

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