Sat.Oct 27, 2018

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A few dollars to bring down sites with new Bushido-based DDoS-for-hire service

Security Affairs

Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new DDoS-for-hire service called “ 0x-booter” built with leaked code that implements an easy to use interface. “ 0x-booter ” first appeared on October 17, 2018, a post published on Facebook advertises over 500 Gbps of power and 20,000 bots. “During our regular monitoring, the FortiGuard Labs team recently discovered a new platform offering DDoS-for-hire service called “0x-booter. ”” reads the analysis published by Fort

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Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Suspect's Gab Posts Are Part of a Pattern

WIRED Threat Level

It may never be clear why Robert Bowers chose to carry out a violent attack. But his social media activity mirrors an increase in anti-Semitism on the internet.

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Apple and Samsung fined millions for “planned obsolescence” of old smartphones

Security Affairs

Italian Competition Authority AGCM fined Apple and Samsung a 5 million Euros and 10 million Euros for “planned obsolescence” of their mobile devices. After a long investigation conducted by the Italian Competition Authority AGCM, the agency has fined Apple and Samsung a 5 million Euros ($5.8 Million) and 10 million Euros ($11.5 Million) for “planned obsolescence” of their mobile devices.

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MER 2019 Registration Now Open

IG Guru

Visit the registration site here. The post MER 2019 Registration Now Open appeared first on IG GURU.

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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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Management moves

InfoGovNuggets

No indication that this is Compliance-related; may just have been a personality conflict, or the continued shuffling of chairs under the new CEO. But it certainly goes to Governance, which is at least tangentially related to information governance. “Deutsche Bank Dismisses an Executive,” The Wall Street Journal , October 26, 2018 B10. Bank dismisses its asset-management chief.