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Company Says Change Healthcare Hackers Stole Sensitive Data

Data Breach Today

UnitedHealth Group Makes Low Key Admission in Online FAQ UnitedHealthGroup said for the first time that hackers behind a February ransomware attack against Change Healthcare breached sensitive health information, an admission that triggers a regulatory countdown clock for public disclosures and individual notification.

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Cisco warns of a command injection escalation flaw in its IMC. PoC publicly available

Security Affairs

Cisco has addressed a high-severity vulnerability in its Integrated Management Controller (IMC) for which publicly available exploit code exists. Cisco has addressed a high-severity Integrated Management Controller (IMC) vulnerability and is aware of a public exploit code for this issue. The PoC exploit code allows a local attacker to escalate privileges to root.

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Lowest-Rung Attackers Challenging Ransomware-as-a-Service

Data Breach Today

Christopher Budd on the Rise of Junk Gun Ransomware Variants Since June 2023, 19 junk gun ransomware variants have been discovered on the dark web. These cheap, independently produced and crudely constructed variants offer an attractive way for newer cybercriminals to get started in the ransomware world and are mostly effective against SMBs.

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Other Attempts to Take Over Open Source Projects

Schneier on Security

After the XZ Utils discovery, people have been examining other open-source projects. Surprising no one, the incident is not unique: The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails with similar messages, bearing different names and overlapping GitHub-associated emails. These emails implored OpenJS to take action to update one of its popular JavaScript projects to “address any critical vulnerabilities,” yet cited no specifics.

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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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Code to Cloud Roadshow - Minneapolis In-Person Event hosted by Palo Alto Networks

Data Breach Today

Code to Cloud Roadshow, Minneapolis In-Person Event.

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The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived

WIRED Threat Level

Watch how smooth-talking scammers known as “Yahoo Boys” use widely available face-swapping tech to carry out elaborate romance scams.

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AI Voice Cloning and Bank Voice Authentication: A Recipe for Disaster?

KnowBe4

New advancements in generative AI voice cloning come at a time when banks are looking for additional ways to authenticate their customers – and they’re choosing your voice.

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AI Emerges as Top Priority for Enterprises, Driving Competitive Advantage

Information Matters

In a survey of over 1,000 C-suite executives across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, Constellation Research has found that artificial intelligence (AI) has become the Read more The post AI Emerges as Top Priority for Enterprises, Driving Competitive Advantage appeared first on Information Matters - Where AI Meets Business Transformation.

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Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse via Tech Crunch

IG Guru

Check out the article here. The post Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse via Tech Crunch first appeared on IG GURU.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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How declarative device management transforms Apple MDM

Jamf

Apple's declarative device management (DDM) is a relative newcomer to MDM. But in only three years, it has become a cornerstone of modern Apple management. You can expect DDM's impact to grow ever more transformative.

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Getting ready for artificial general intelligence with examples

IBM Big Data Hub

Imagine a world where machines aren’t confined to pre-programmed tasks but operate with human-like autonomy and competence. A world where computer minds pilot self-driving cars, delve into complex scientific research, provide personalized customer service and even explore the unknown. This is the potential of artificial general intelligence (AGI), a hypothetical technology that may be poised to revolutionize nearly every aspect of human life and work.

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Previously unknown Kapeka backdoor linked to Russian Sandworm APT

Security Affairs

Russia-linked APT Sandworm employed a previously undocumented backdoor called Kapeka in attacks against Eastern Europe since 2022. WithSecure researchers identified a new backdoor named Kapeka that has been used in attacks targeting victims in Eastern Europe since at least mid-2022. The backdoor is very sophisticated, it serves as both an initial toolkit and as a backdoor for maintaining long-term access to compromised systems.

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Probable Root Cause: Accelerating incident remediation with causal AI 

IBM Big Data Hub

It has been proven time and time again that a business application’s outages are very costly. The estimated cost of an average downtime can run USD 50,000 to 500,000 per hour , and more as businesses are actively moving to digitization. The complexity of applications is growing as well, so Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) require hours—and sometimes days—to identify and resolve problems.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.