Sun.Jan 26, 2020

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Authorities arrest 3 Indonesian hackers behind many Magecart attacks

Security Affairs

The Indonesian National Police and the Interpol announced the arrest of three Indonesian hackers who carried out Magecart attacks. The Indonesian National Police in a joint press conference with Interpol announced the result of an investigation dubbed ‘Operation Night Fury’ that allowed to arrest three hackers that carried out Magecart attacks to steal payment card data.

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Australian government secretly releasing sensitive medical records to police

The Guardian Data Protection

Lawyers and health privacy advocates condemn laxness of privacy provisions in guidelines The Australian government is releasing highly sensitive medical records to police through a secret regime that experts say contains fundamentally flawed privacy protections. The Department of Human Services fields large volumes of requests for Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) data from state and federal policing agencies each year.

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A new piece of Ryuk Stealer targets government, military and finance sectors

Security Affairs

A new piece of the Ryuk malware has been improved to steal confidential files related to the military, government, financial statements, and banking. Security experts from MalwareHunterTeam have discovered a new version of the Ryuk Stealer malware that has been enhanced to allow its operators to steal a greater amount of confidential files related to the military, government, financial statements, and banking.

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Britain could lose access to EU data after series of scandals

The Guardian Data Protection

Exchange of key security information at risk after Dutch concerns over data protection ?British hopes of maintaining a post-Brexit flow of data with the EU, judged vital for security and the economy, have been thrown into doubt after a behind-the-scenes intervention from the Netherlands over Britain’s record in protecting personal information. As the UK prepares to leave the EU at 11pm on Friday, it can be revealed that the UK’s closest ally in the bloc raised concerns over the robustness of Bri

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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City of Potsdam offline following a cyberattack

Security Affairs

The City of Potsdam suffered a major cyberattack that took down its servers earlier this week, but emergency services were not impacted. The German City of Potsdam has suffered a major cyberattack that took down its servers earlier this week, the good news is that emergency services, including the city’s fire department fully operational and payments were not affected.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 248

Security Affairs

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Bot list with Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers and IoT devices leaked online. Hackers patch Citrix servers to deploy their own backdoor. Citrix releases permanent fixes for CVE-2019-19781 flaw in ADC 11.1 and 12.0. JhoneRAT uses Google Drive, Twitter, ImgBB, and Google Forms to target countries in Middle East.