Lenny Zeltser

MARCH 2, 2019

If you’d like to start experimenting with malware analysis in your own lab, here’s how to download and set up a free Windows virtual machine: Step 1: Install Virtualization Software Step 2: Get a Windows Virtual Machine Step 3: Update the VM and Install Malware Analysis Tools Step 4: Isolate the Analysis VM and Disable Windows Defender AV Step 5: Analyze Some Malware.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 2, 2019

Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment Facebook has targeted politicians around the world – including the former chancellor, George Osborne – promising investments and incentives while seeking to pressure them into lobbying on Facebook’s behalf against data privacy legislation, an explosive new leak of internal Facebook documents has revealed.

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PerezBox

MARCH 2, 2019

I was recently at an event listening to representatives of ICANN and CloudFlare speak on security with DNS and it occurred to me that very few of us really understand. Read More. The post The Evolving World of DNS Security appeared first on PerezBox.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

SI-LAB captured a piece of the FlawedAmmyy malware that leverages undetected XLM macros as an Infection Vehicle to compromise user’s devices. In February 2019, SI-LAB captured multiple samples of phishing campaigns using an Office Excel document carrying a malicious Excel 4.0 macro, also known as XLM macro, and used to download and execute a final backdoor called FlawedAmmyy Remote Access Trojan (RAT).

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2019

I'm not intentionally pushing these out later than usual, but events have just been such over the last few weeks that it's worked out that way. This one really is a short one though as there hasn't been a lot of newsworthy stuff going on this week, other than the new Instamics I picked up which are rather cool. The audio recording did work well (I mentioned in the video I wasn't sure if it was functioning correctly), and it's pretty damn good quality for what it is.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 2, 2019

Many police and local authorities are using Amazon-style ‘predictive algorithms’ to intervene in people’s lives It’s the software that Amazon uses to tell you to buy a book you know you’ll never read. And Twitter to persuade you to follow some douchebag. And your local council to tell social workers how to act. A report by Sky News ’s Rowland Manthorpe, based on research by Cardiff University’s Data Justice Lab , revealed that at least 53 local authorities and almost a third of UK police forces

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

Adobe has released out-of-band updates to address a critical flaw in ColdFusion web application development platform that has been exploited in the wild. Adobe has released out-of-band updates to address a zero-day vulnerability in the ColdFusion web application development platform that has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-7816 , has been described by the vendor as a file upload restriction bypass issue that could lead to arbitrary code execution in the contex

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WIRED Threat Level

MARCH 2, 2019

Plus: cryptocurrency dust problems for #DeleteCoinbase, leaked financial watch lists, and more of the week's top security news.

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MARCH 2, 2019

Cyber Defense Magazine October 2018 Edition has arrived. MARCH 2019 EDITION (RSA CONFERENCE PRINT EDITION & E-MAG COMING NEXT WEEK). Cyber Defense eMagazine March 2019 Edition has arrived. Sponsored by: Aristotle Insight HelpSystems Inky Regent University White Hat Security. We hope you enjoy this month’s edition…packed with 157 pages of excellent content.

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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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