Data Breach Today

JUNE 5, 2021

Dr. Claudia Natanson Describes Vision of U.K.’s New Self-Regulatory Body U.K. Cyber Security Council is a new self-regulatory body for the profession. It is tasked by the U.K. Government to execute their vision for the U.K. to be one of the safest places to work and do business online, says the chair of the Council’s Board of Trustees, Dr. Claudia Natanson.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 5, 2021

This week has been absolutely dominated by code contributions to Pwned Passwords. This is such an awesome, humbling experience that so many people have wanted to contribute their time to something that makes online life better for all of us. The challenge I have now is, as expected, managing the pull requests, reviewing code and ensuring the project heads in the right direction as support for ingesting the FBI -provided passwords is built out.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 5, 2021

FireEye Acquisition Opens New Doors for Private Equity Firm Symphony Technology Group's acquisition of FireEye Products Business in a $1.2 billion deal will set up the private equity group to better compete with security giants such as Microsoft and Cisco, while unlocking profit potential for FireEye and the now stand-alone Mandiant Solutions, analysts say.

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Data Matters

JUNE 5, 2021

The European Commission ( EC ) on June 4, 2021 adopted a new set of Standard Contractual Clauses for international data transfers ( New SCCs ). The New SCCs take into account the Court of Justice of the European Union’s ( CJEU ) decision in Schrems II , requirements under the EU General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ), and according to the EC “address the realities faced by modern business”.

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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

JUNE 5, 2021

Cyble researchers investigated a recent attack on an India-based IT firm that was hit by the BlackCocaine Ransomware gang. Recently Cyber researchers for Cyble investigated an attack suffered by on May 30, 2021, by Nucleus Software, an India-based IT company in the Banking and Financial Services sector. The company reported the security breach to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange of India (NSEI).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of a Latvian woman for her alleged role in the development of the Trickbot malware. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of Alla Witte (aka Max), a Latvian woman that was charged for her alleged role in the development of the Trickbot malware. Alla Witte was arrested on February 6 in Miami, Florida, she has been charged with 19 counts of a 47-count indictment. “Alla Witte, aka Max, 55, is charged in 19 counts of a

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 5, 2021

Listen, if you’re going to take them, follow these precautions so they don’t go anywhere you don’t intend them to.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

The U.S. CISA announced the availability of a new guide for cyber threat intelligence experts on the use of the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week released a new guide for cyber threat intelligence experts on the use of the MITRE ATT&CK framework. In 2018, MITRE announced the MITRE ATT&CK , a globally accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 5, 2021

Plus, a Supreme Court decision on a controversial anti-hacking law, a WhatsApp walk-back, and more of the week’s top security news.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

The U.S. Department of Justice was to assign investigation on ransomware attacks the same priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack. The U.S. Department of Justice plans to equate investigations into ransomware attacks with investigations into terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack. Colonial Pipeline before, and recently the JBS attack, demonstrated that allegedly financially motivated ransomware attack could have a dramatic impact on the targeted organizations

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Elie

JUNE 5, 2021

Learn how to perform a deep-learning side-channels attack using TensorFlow to recover AES cryptographic keys from a hardware device power traces, step by step.

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