Sun.Dec 11, 2022

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Australian Telecom Firm Leaks Data of 130,000 customers

Data Breach Today

'We're Sorry it Occurred, and We Know We Have Let You Down,' Telstra CFO Says Australian telecommunications provider Telstra apologized for accidentally publishing names, numbers and addresses of over 130,000 customers whose details were supposed to be unlisted. The company apologized for the error and blamed a "misalignment of databases.

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MY TAKE: The role of semiconductors in bringing the ‘Internet of Everything’ into full fruition

The Last Watchdog

The Internet of Everything ( IoE ) is on the near horizon. Related: Raising the bar for smart homes. Our reliance on artificially intelligent software is deepening, signaling an era, just ahead, of great leaps forward for humankind. We would not be at this juncture without corresponding advances on the hardware side of the house. For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere.

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Australia Aims to Be World's 'Most Cyber-Secure' Country

Data Breach Today

New Cybersecurity Strategy Will Aspire to World-Topping Performance by 2030 Australian Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister Clare O'Neil vowed during a speech to transform the country into the world's most cyber-secure, saying experts will start work on a strategy intended to outdo the rest of the world by 2030. The country has recently experienced a data breach wave.

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TrueBot infections were observed in Clop ransomware attacks

Security Affairs

Researchers reported an increase in TrueBot infections, attackers have shifted from using malicious emails as their primary delivery method to other techniques. Cisco Talos researchers reported an increase in TrueBot infections, threat actors have shifted from using malicious emails as their primary attack vector to other techniques. Truebot has been active since 2017 and some researchers linked it to the Silence Group , while a recent investigation linked it to threat actor TA505 (aka Evil Co

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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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Weekly Update 325

Troy Hunt

For the first time in I don't know how long, I couldn't do this live. Turns out both cell and wifi in Lapland are, with the benefit of hindsight, exactly what you'd expect from a remote location in the Arctic circle. The rest of the place was pretty amazing though, and a good deal of this week's content has gone to that. Plus, there's the whole "Australia becoming the world's most cyber-secure country" goal which deserves discussion.

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Nearly 4,500 Pulse Connect Secure VPNs Left Unpatched and Vulnerable

Dark Reading

Pulse Connect VPN server software received several updates over the years, and thousands of hosts haven't patched.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 397

Security Affairs

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. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. At least 4,460 vulnerable Pulse Connect Secure hosts are exposed to the Internet US HHS warns healthcare orgs of Royal Ransomware attacks CommonSpirit confirms data breach impacts 623K patients Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 Day 3: Participants earned nearly

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Trilio Raises $17M, Appoints Massood Zarrabian as CEO

Dark Reading

Funding and new leadership to drive innovation and growth in cloud-native application resiliency; round led by SKK Ventures with T-Mobile and Telefonica.

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MuddyWater APT group is back with updated TTPs

Security Affairs

The Iran-linked MuddyWater APT is targeting countries in the Middle East as well as Central and West Asia in a new campaign. Deep Instinct’s Threat Research team uncovered a new campaign conducted by the MuddyWater APT (aka SeedWorm , TEMP.Zagros , and Static Kitten ) that was targeting Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Tajikistan, and United Arab Emirates.

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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.