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US Intelligence Adds More Details on Election Interference

Data Breach Today

Russia, China, Iran Look to Influence 2020 Presidential Election Russia, China and Iran are all actively seeking to influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential election in November, according to a new report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which offers additional details about each country's plans and goals.

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Remotely hack a Mercedes-Benz E-Class is possible, experts demonstrated

Security Affairs

Chinese researchers discovered tens of vulnerabilities in a Mercedes-Benz E-Class, including issues that can be exploited to remotely hack it. A team of Chinese experts from Sky-Go, the Qihoo 360 division focused on car hacking, discovered 19 vulnerabilities in a Mercedes-Benz E-Class, including some issues that can be exploited by attackers to remotely hack a vehicle.

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Digital Clones Could Cause Problems for Identity Systems

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Three fundamental technologies -- chatbots, audio fakes, and deepfake videos -- have improved to the point that creating digital, real-time clones of people is merely a matter of integrating the systems.

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The NSA's Tips to Keep Your Phone From Tracking You

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: A Canon ransomware hack, a nasty Twitter bug, and more of the week's top security news.

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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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FBI warns of Iran-linked hackers attempting to exploit F5 BIG-IP flaw

Security Affairs

According to the FBI, Iranian hackers are actively attempting to exploit an unauthenticated RCE flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-5902, in F5 Big-IP ADC devices. The FBI is warning of Iranian hackers actively attempting to exploit an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw ( CVE-2020-5902 ) affecting F5 Big-IP application delivery controller (ADC) devices.

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Qualcomm and MediaTek Wi-Fi chips impacted by Kr00k-Like attacks

Security Affairs

Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Qualcomm and MediaTek are impacted by vulnerabilities similar to the Kr00k issue disclosed early this year. Earlier this year, experts from ESET disclosed the Kr00k , a new high-severity hardware vulnerability, that affects Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress. The Kr00k vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-15126, could be exploited by nearby remote attackers to intercept and decrypt some wireless network packets transmitted over-the-air by a vulnerable devi

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FBI on China, Election Security and Impact of COVID-19

Data Breach Today

SF Office's Virmani Opens up on Adversaries, Investigations and Crime Trends The day after President Trump issued executive orders to ban Chinese-owned social media apps TikTok and WeChat, Sanjay Virmani of the FBI's San Francisco office shared insight on the Chinese cyber threat, election security and crime trends in the wake of COVID-19.

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The Debate Over Trump 'Ban' of TikTok, WeChat

Data Breach Today

Is Ban Enforceable? And Does It Remove a National Security Threat? President Donald Trump's executive order banning the Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat apps could prove to be unenforceable, some privacy and security specialists say. But some Republicans lawmakers hailed the move, citing the national security risks posed by the apps.

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