Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2019

The largest hospital in New Jersey announced on Friday that a ransomware attack last week disrupted its network and that it paid a ransom. The largest hospital in New Jersey, the Hackensack Meridian Health, was the victim of a ransomware attack last week that disrupted its network, the IT staff decided to pay the ransom to decrypt the files. Hackensack Meridian operates 17 acute care and specialty hospitals, and the psychiatric facility Carrier Clinic, nursing homes, and outpatient centers.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 15, 2019

The next-generation wireless networks make it harder to track and spoof users, but security holes remain because devices still connect to older networks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2019

New evidence suggests that in the recent attack against the systems at the City of New Orleans was used the Ryuk ransomware. Over the weekend, New Orleans officials announced in a press conference that the city was hit by a ransomware attack, the incident was discovered in the morning of December 13, 2019. The IT staff immediately informed all employees of the incident and asked them to power down computers to avoid the threat spreading.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Google's Password Checkup feature will be fully integrated into the desktop and mobile versions of Chrome 79.

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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 15, 2019

From iPhone to NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM – As promised in my previous post , I will show you how to exploit the “Printconfig” dll with a real world example. But what does Apple’s iPhone have to do with it?? Well, keep on reading… ( sorry no ). Some time ago, me and my “business partner” @padovah4ck, were looking for possible privileged file operations exploitable via hardlinks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2019

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. SEC Xtractor – Experts released an open-source hardware analysis tool. US authorities charged Dridex gang members for stealing over $100 Million. A bug in the decryptor for the Ryuk ransomware could cause data loss. China 3-5-2 directive orders state offices to remove foreign hardware and software.

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Reltio

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Do you know the greatest and most enduring secret to winning in the experience economy? The secret that some of the leading brands already know and exploit to the fullest? It's providing a connected customer experience (CX). Enterprises are no longer competing on products as consumers and business buyers are willing to pay more for the experience. So how do you deliver a connected and consistent omnichannel customer experience?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Iran telecommunications minister announced that for the second time in a week Iran has foiled a cyber attack against its infrastructure. Iran has foiled a new cyber-attack, the country’s telecommunications minister Mohammad Javad Azari- Jahromi says. A few days ago, the Iranian telecommunications minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, announced that the Islamic Republic had recently thwarted a “highly organized cyber attack” targeting its government infrastructure.

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