Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Payroll software provider Apex Human Capital Management suffered a ransomware attack this week that severed payroll management services for hundreds of the company’s customers for nearly three days. Faced with the threat of an extended outage, Apex chose to pay the ransom demand and begin the process of restoring service to customers. Roswell, Ga. based Apex HCM is a cloud-based payroll software company that serves some 350 payroll service bureaus that in turn provide payroll services to s

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Cybercriminals are offering over a million dollars per year to skilled professionals like vxers and penetration testers to help them in extortion campaigns. According to a new report published by the security firm Digital Shadows cybercriminal organizations are willing to pay millions to skilled hackers and malware developers. The analysis of posts on Dark Web forums reveals that at least one threat actor is willing to pay more than $64,000 per month ($768,000 per year) to skilled hackers to rec

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Sensitive data sent to social media giant from ‘at least 11’ platforms Facebook is battling fresh controversy on both sides of the Atlantic amid claims that it has been receiving highly personal data from third-party apps. The swirl of bad news around the company comes after its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, was criticised for meeting the culture secretary, Jeremy Wright , having refused to appear before an influential parliamentary committee in Westminster.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Experts uncovered a new malware campaign that attempts to circumvent victims by abusing LinkedIn ’s direct messaging service. . Researchers at Proofpoint have uncovered a new malware campaign that attempts to circumvent victims by abusing LinkedIn’s direct messaging service. . “ In direct follow-up emails, the actor pretends to be from a staffing company with an offer of employment.

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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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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

The 2020 disinformation campaigns have started, DrainerBot is coming for your smartphone's battery, and more security news this week.

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Roger's Information Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Today I received an email inviting me to buy a Easy File Shredder product for a special price of $15 instead of the usual price of $50. Securely deleting sensitive data is really important. But is buying a product really needed? This type of thing has generally been needed because when you delete a file, you are essentially marking the file space as unallocated, and until the space is used for new files, recovery software can “undelete” it.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

A new piece of ransomware called Cr1ptT0r infects embedded systems and network attached storage (NAS) devices exposed online. A new piece of ransomware called Cr1ptT0r was discovered by experts, it infects embedded systems and network attached storage (NAS) devices exposed online. The discovery of the Cr1ptT0r ransomware was first reported on a discussion in the BleepingComputerforums.

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