Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The p opular ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service have been blocked by the Russian government this week. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service. Roskomnadzor explained that the services were abused by cybercriminals and that Proton Technologies refused to register them with state authorities.

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CGI

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Strategize your next move to become a utilities leader, delivering value at scale and pace. dharini.s@cgi.com. Mon, 02/03/2020 - 01:59. Each year, we meet face-to-face with business and IT executives around the world to gather their perspectives on the trends affecting their enterprises. In 2019, our CGI Client Global Insights reveal, once again, that utilities are making considerable progress in their digital transformation journey, with 92% of executives now reporting their organization has a

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

An ongoing phishing campaign launched by TA505 is using attachments featuring HTML redirectors for delivering malicious Excel docs. Security experts from Microsoft have uncovered an ongoing p hishing campaign launched by the TA505 cybercrime gang (aka Evil Corp ) that is employing attachments featuring HTML redirectors for delivering malicious Excel docs.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Not so long ago we searched Google. Now we seem quite happy to let Google search us Probably too late to ask, but was the past year the moment we lost our technological innocence? The Alexa in the corner of the kitchen monitoring your every word? The location-betraying device in your pocket? The dozen trackers on that web page you just opened? The thought that a 5G network could, in some hazily understood way, be hardwired back to Beijing ?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Microsoft announced the launch of an Xbox bug bounty program with rewards of up to $20,000 for critical remote code execution flaws. Microsoft is going to launch an Xbox bug bounty p rogram that will pay rewards of up to $20,000 for critical remote code execution vulnerabilities. “The Xbox Bounty Program invites gamers, security researchers, and others around the world to help identify security vulnerabilities in the Xbox Live network and services and share them with the Xbox team.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Authorities arrest 3 Indonesian hackers behind many Magecart attacks. City of Potsdam offline following a cyberattack. A new piece of Ryuk Stealer targets government, military and finance sectors. Aggah: How to run a botnet without renting a Server (for more than a year).

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

A company you’ve never heard of is spending millions of dollars to let you know it can make your online life easier.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Apollon market, one of the largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming after the administrators have locked vendors’ accounts. The Apollon market , one of the darknet’s largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming, vendors and customers reported suspicious behavior of its administrators. Users on Reddit are reporting that vendors can’t withdrawal funds nor sign into their account, only buyers are still able to sign onto their accounts.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

See what I did there? ; o ) Yes, it’s Legalweek ® ! And, Legaltech ® starts tomorrow! But, if you were to look at our latest word cloud, maybe the show should be called “Legaldata”? Or maybe “Legalpriv”? In some past years, we’ve covered InsideLegal’s word cloud and they’ve been creating a word cloud every year since 2011, which is the first year that eDiscovery Daily started covering the show – this is our tenth(!).

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Russia’s Roskomnadzor watchdog wants to fine Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country. Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has instituted administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country. “On January 31, 2020, Roskomnadzor instituted administrative proceedings against Facebook, Inc and Twitter, Inc , These comp

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