Data Breach Today
AUGUST 1, 2020
DOJ: Valerian Chiochiu Provided Cybercriminals Help Through Infraud Site A member of the infamous Infraud Organization and the creator of a malware strain called FastPOS has pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges, according to the Justice Department. Valerian Chiochiu assisted other cybercriminals through the Infraud site before authorities shuttered it in 2018.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 1, 2020
As ransomware groups turn their attention to bigger game, expect more high-profile targets to fall.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 1, 2020
Russian, Chinese, North Korean Individuals and Entities Cited The European Union has imposed its first-ever sanctions against individuals and entities from Russia, China and North Korea for their alleged role in hacking activities and cyberattacks that targeted EU citizens and organizations.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 1, 2020
A 30-year-old Moldovan man pleaded guilty this week for creating the FastPOS malware that infected PoS systems worldwide. The Moldovan citizen Valerian Chiochiu (30), aka Onassis, pleaded guilty on Friday for creating the infamous FastPOS Point-of-Sale (POS) malware. Chiochiu was a member of the Infraud global cybercrime organization involved in stealing and selling credit card and personal identity data.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 1, 2020
McAfee: Operation North Star Used Fake Job Offers to Plant Malware Hackers with suspected ties to North Korea targeted U.S. aerospace and defense firms with fake job offer emails sent to employees, according to security firm McAfee. The messages contained malware designed to gain a foothold in networks and gather data.
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Archives Blogs
AUGUST 1, 2020
On the evening of August 1, 1943, a riot in Harlem reportedly began after a white policeman shot and wounded an African-American soldier who had been charged by the officer with interfering in the arrest of a black woman in the lobby of a hotel on West 126th Street. (The audio above dates from August 1). City officials and Harlem civic leaders used WNYC to help quell the violence that followed. .
Security Affairs
AUGUST 1, 2020
Four suspects were charged for their alleged involvement in the recent Twitter hack, announced the Department of Justice. US authorities announced the arrest of 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark from Tampa, Florida, it is suspected to have orchestrated the recent Twitter hack. The arrest is the result of an operation coordinated by the FBI, the IRS, and the Secret Service.
The Guardian Data Protection
AUGUST 1, 2020
The EU probe of the search engine’s deal for Fitbit is a harbinger of a future in which Big Tech is central to healthcare Healthcare is going to be one of the biggest corporate battlegrounds of the next 20 years. In the UK, public and private health spending already accounts for 10% of national income (GDP). In the US, health spending eats up around 17% of the economic pie.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 1, 2020
President Donald Trump announced that he plans to ban the popular short video app TikTok from operating in the US as early as Saturday. President Donald Trump has announced he is going to ban the popular Chinese video-sharing app TikTok in the US. The US President is ready to sign an executive order as early as Saturday to block the popular application owned by Chinese firm ByteDance.
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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