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$7 Million Digital Advertising Scam: Russian Man Convicted

Data Breach Today

Self-Professed 'King of Fraud' Aleksandr Zhukov Ran Ads on Fake Sites Russian national Aleksandr Zhukov has been convicted by a U.S. federal jury of four charges - including wire fraud and money laundering - as part of the so-called Methbot scheme, which prosecutors say led to $7 million in digital advertising fraud.

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Experts devised a new attack to bypass Microsoft PatchGuard

Security Affairs

A security researcher discovered a bug in PatchGuard Windows security feature that can allow loading unsigned malicious code into the Windows kernel. Japanese researcher Kento Oki has discovered a bug in PatchGuard that could be exploited by an attacker to load unsigned malicious code into the Windows operating system kernel. The PatchGuard, also known as Kernel Patch Protection, is a software protection utility that has been designed to forbid the kernel of 64-bit versions of Windows OS from be

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Leveraging Machine Learning to Fight Money Laundering

Data Breach Today

Rene Perez on Using Advanced Technologies to Rate Alerts Machine learning can play a big role in fighting against money laundering, says Rene Perez, financial crimes consultant at Jack Henry and Associates.

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Denmark intel helped US NSA to spy on European politicians

Security Affairs

Denmark’s foreign secret service allowed the US NSA to spy on European politicians through a Danish telecommunications hub. Journalists from Danish broadcaster DR recently received a document titled the Dunhammer Report, which included the findings of an investigation conducted by the Danish authorities on the spying operation. DR shared the report with other news agencies across Europe, including the German broadcasters NDR and WDR, the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung , French newspaper Le

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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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Welcoming the Dominican Republic Government to Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Continuing with the launch of the Have I Been Pwned Domain Search API to national government cyber agencies, I am very happy to welcome the first Latin American country on board, the Dominican Republic. Their National Cybersecurity Incident Response Team (CSIRT-RD) is the 18th national CERT that has free and open access to domain inquiries across all of its government assets.

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On the Taxonomy and Evolution of Ransomware

Threatpost

Not all ransomware is the same! Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra AI, discusses the different species of this growing scourge.

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Use cases of secure IoT deployment

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Use cases of secure IoT deployment. madhav. Tue, 06/01/2021 - 06:55. In our previous blog post , we discussed the challenges for securing IoT deployments, and how businesses and consumers benefit from authenticating and validating IoT software and firmware updates. In this article, we are going to present four use cases that demonstrate how businesses can secure devices, identities, data and software in their IoT deployments.

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Swedish Health Agency discloses hacking attempts

Security Affairs

The Swedish Public Health Agency has shut down the country’s infectious diseases database, SmiNet, last week after multiple hacking attempts. The Swedish Public Health Agency was forced to shut down its infectious diseases database, named SmiNet , in response to a series of hacking attempts. The Swedish Agency cannot report complete data from Wednesday at 4 pm until the investigation on the intrusion attempts will be completed.

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3 SASE Misconceptions to Consider

Dark Reading

SASE is all the rage, promising things IT leaders have long dreamed about, but a purist approach may create consequences.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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What Is a Supply Chain Attack?

WIRED Threat Level

From NotPetya to SolarWinds, it’s a problem that’s not going away any time soon.