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AESDDoS bot exploits CVE-2019-3396 flaw to hit Atlassian Confluence Server

Security Affairs

A new variant of the AESDDoS bot is exploiting a recent vulnerability in the Atlassian collaborative software Confluence. Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new variant of AESDDoS botnet that is exploiting a recently discovered vulnerability in the Atlassian collaborative software Confluence. The flaw exploited in the attacks, tracked as CVE-2019-3396 , is a server-side template injection vulnerability that resides in the Widget Connector macro in Confluence Server.

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Rape cases ‘could fail’ if victims refuse to give police access to phones

The Guardian Data Protection

Experts split on whether new guidance for crime victims will help or hinder prosecutions Complainants in rape and serious sexual assault cases who refuse police access to the contents of their mobile phones could allow suspects to avoid charges, the director of public prosecutions (DPP), Max Hill QC, and a senior police officer have warned. New national consent forms authorising detectives to search texts, images and call data are proving controversial, Metropolitan police assistant commissioner

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Critical flaw in Qualcomm chips exposes sensitive data for Android Devices

Security Affairs

Researchers devised a new side-channel attack in Qualcomm technology, widely used by most Android smartphones, that could expose private keys. Researchers have uncovered a new side-channel attack that could be exploited by attackers to extract sensitive data from Qualcomm secure keystore, including private keys, and passwords. The attack potentially impacts most of the modern Android devices that use Qualcomm chips, including popular Snapdragon models 820, 835, 845 and 855.

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Another Sedona Conference Commentary Published: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

Last week , I discussed two public comment publications from The Sedona Conference® (TSC) from last year that were published in final form over the past few weeks. Now, TSC has announced a new publication from and its Working Group 11 on Data Security and Privacy Liability (WG11) that evaluates the application of the attorney-client privilege and work-product protection doctrine to an organization’s cybersecurity information.

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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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Microsoft removes Password-Expiration Policy in security baseline for Windows 10

Security Affairs

Microsoft presented a series of security enhancements for its Windows 10, including the removal of the password-expiration policy. Microsoft announced the removal of the password-expiration policy from its operating system starting with the next Windows 10 feature update (Windows 10 version 1903, a.k.a., “19H1” ) and Windows Server version 1903. The idea behind this change is that a password-expiration policy could improve the user’s security only in case of a data breach, instead if a pas

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 211 – News of the week

Security Affairs

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you! 60 Million records of LinkedIn users exposed online. INPIVX hidden service, a new way to organize ransomware attacks. Ride-Hailing Company operating in Iran exposes data of Iranian Drivers. A flaw in Shopify API flaw exposed revenue and traffic data of thousands of stores.