Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Experts at FortiGuard Labs team discovered three vulnerabilities in eight Sony Bravia smart TVs, one of them rated as critical. Patch management is a crucial aspect for IoT devices, smart objects are surrounding us and represent a privileged target for hackers. Experts at FortiGuard Labs team discovered three vulnerabilities (a stack buffer overflow, a directory traversal, and a command-injection issue) in eight Sony Bravia smart TVs, one of them rated as critical.

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PerezBox

OCTOBER 6, 2018

For years I advocated the importance of good hygiene. The importance of using complex, long and unique passwords. But where this approach falls short is that it’s dependent on one. Read More. The post Good Password Hygiene Requires Behavior Changes and Password Managers appeared first on PerezBox.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Users are reporting problems with the CCleaner software that appears to be partially broken after the installation of Windows 10 October 2018 Update. Many Windows users are reporting problems after the installation of Windows 10 October 2018 Update, a few days ago a Reddit user discovered the Task Manager tool was showing inaccurate CPU usage after the upgrade.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 6, 2018

According to the 2018 Cost of Data Breach Study , the average cost of a data breach is $3.86 million (around £2.95 million), with an average cost per lost or stolen record of $148 (around £113). But what factors contribute to this cost? As well as having to pay hefty fines for suffering a breach, there are costs associated with reputational damage, customer loss and fall in stock price, not to mention the cost needed to recover from the incident and return to ‘business as usual’.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Gary Davis, one of the admins and moderators of the notorious Silk Road black marketplace, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges. Gary Davis is an Irish national (20) who was one of the admins and moderators of the notorious Silk Road black marketplace, on Friday he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges. “Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GARY DAVIS, a/k/a “Libertas,” pled guilty today to conspiring to distribut

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Hardware hacks, the government gets two-factor, and more security news this week.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 6, 2018

The White House keeps accusing China of election interference—but it's nothing like Russia in 2016.

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