Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Google revealed that over 12,000 of its users were targeted by state-sponsored hackers in the third quarter of this year. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that it has detected and blocked attacks carried out by nation-state actors on 12,000 of its users in the third quarter of this year. Over 90 percent of the users identified by Google were targeted via “credential phishing emails” that attempt to trick victims into providing their password or other account credentials to hij

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 1, 2019

It's summer! Yes, I know it's back to front for many of you but Dec 1 means it's sunnier than ever here. Regardless, this week I've been at DDD in Brisbane, written my 10 year old son Ari and I running kids coding clubs in Oslo (cold) and London (rainy) next month and the Swiss gov being on-boarded onto HIBP. Plus there's this week's sponsor IVPN and how tracking ain't tracking (that may be a bit of an old Aussieism ).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Millions of SMS messages have been leaked by a database run by TrueDialog, a business SMS provider for businesses and higher education providers. Security experts at vpnMentor discovered a database belonging to the US communications company, TrueDialog that was leaking millions of SMS messages. Most of the SMS included in the database were sent by businesses to potential customers.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Once you realize most things you search for online are boring and obvious, you realize you don't really need Google in your life. .

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The official Twitter account of Huawei Mobile Brazil has been hacked and attackers have sent offensive messages to the rival Apple. The official Twitter account of Huawei Mobile Brazil has been hacked, attackers have sent offensive messages to provoke the rival Apple. The hack took place on Black Friday in Brazil, but at the time of writing the tweets have been already removed.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The online music streaming service Mixcloud was recently breached by a hacker that is attempting to sell stolen user data a dark web marketplace. On Friday, the hacker that goes online with the handle “A_W_S” contacted multiple media outlets to disclose the hack, it also provided data samples as proof of the data breach. The hack took place in early November and exposed data for more than 20 million user accounts.

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Cyber. The Huawei and Snowden Questions , by Olav Lysne is a deep dive into what happens when an untrusted vendor builds your trusted computing base, and more importantly, why a great many of the “obvious” ways to address those risks are subject to easy work-arounds. This is unhappy news for Huawei, but more importantly, as cyber is now treated as a “fifth domain” and there are no norms of conflict, bad news for technology in general.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Iran – Government blocks Internet access in response to the protests. Twitter allows users to use 2FA without a phone number. After 1 Million of malware samples analyzed. Federal Communications Commission has cut off government funding for equipment from Chinese firms.

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eDiscovery Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2019

In United States v. Caputo, No. 3:18-cr-00428-IM (D. Or Nov. 6, 2019) , Oregon District Judge Karin J. Immergut denied the defendant’s motion to suppress emails and evidence derived from a warrantless search of Defendant’s workplace email account, finding “any expectation of privacy in Defendant’s work email was objectively unreasonable under the military’s computer-use policies in effect at his workplace.”.

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DECEMBER 1, 2019

Party had sought retraction of journalist’s story about alleged sale of voter data Latest election news – live updates The Liberal Democrats have suspended a senior member of their campaign team just days before polling day, after an official apparently forged emails to support a legal threat against a journalist over an embarrassing story. Jo Swinson’s party has been fighting the website openDemocracy for weeks over a little-noticed article published last month about the party allegedly selling

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