Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2018

A security researcher discovered a new crypto mining worm dubbed ZombieBoy that leverages several exploits to evade detection. The security researcher James Quinn has spotted a new strain of crypto mining worm dubbed ZombieBoy that appears to be very profitable and leverages several exploits to evade detection. The expert called this new malware ZombieBoy because it uses a tool called ZombieBoyTools to drop the first dll, it uses some exploits to spread.

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Mining Ransomware Security IT 60

WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 5, 2018

Connecting to a public Wi-Fi network can put you at risk. Here's how to minimize the damage.

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Risk Security 78

Elie

AUGUST 5, 2018

This post provides an overview of the impact of the Twitter 2018 accounts purge through the lens of its impact on 16k of Twitter’s most popular accounts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2018

Security experts from Symantec are warning of tech support scams abusing Call Optimization Services to insert phone numbers. Crooks are improving their tech support scams by using Call Optimization Services that are commonly used in legitimate call center operations to perform: Tracking the source of inbound calls. Creation and management of phone numbers.

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Analytics Security IT 47

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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Adam Shostack

AUGUST 5, 2018

Congratulations to the 2016 winners ! Dan Geer, Chief Information Security Officer at In-Q-Tel; Lance J. Hoffman, Distinguished Research Professor of Computer Science, The George Washington University; Horst Feistel, Cryptographer and Inventor of the United States Data Encryption Standard (DES); Paul Karger, High Assurance Architect, Prolific Writer and Creative Inventor; Butler Lampson, Adjunct Professor at MIT, Turing Award and Draper Prize winner; Leonard J.

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Cybersecurity Education Encryption Information Security 40

Elie

AUGUST 5, 2018

This post provides an overview of the impact of the Twitter 2018 accounts purge through the lens of its impact on 16k of Twitter’s most popular accounts. Overall, we found that on average, popular accounts lost 2.8 percent of their followers bases due to the purge. In terms of raw numbers, this represents a collective loss of over half a billion followers (546M).

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IT Data collection Paper 90

Elie

AUGUST 5, 2018

This post provides an overview of the impact of the Twitter 2018 accounts purge through the lens of its impact on 16k of Twitter’s most popular accounts. Overall, we found that on average, popular accounts lost 2.8 percent of their followers bases due to the purge. In terms of raw numbers, this represents a collective loss of over half a billion followers (546M).

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IT Data collection Paper 90