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McDonald's Breach Exposes Korean, Taiwanese Customer Data

Data Breach Today

Company Says Phone Numbers, Delivery and Email Addresses Exposed Fast-food giant McDonald's is acknowledging a data breach that affected some customer and company data from its locations in Korea and Taiwan. Phone numbers, delivery and email addresses were exposed. Payment data, however, has not been compromised.

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CVE-2021-3560 flaw in polkit auth system service affects most of Linux distros

Security Affairs

An authentication bypass flaw in the polkit auth system service used on most Linux distros can allow to get a root shell. An authentication bypass vulnerability in the polkit auth system service, tracked as CVE-2021-3560 , which is used on most Linux distros can allow an unprivileged attacker to get a root shell. “A flaw was found in polkit. When a requesting process disconnects from dbus-daemon just before the call to polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync starts, the process cannot get a

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Al-Jazeera News Service Says It Foiled Hacking Attempts

Data Breach Today

Attack Targeted Takeover of News Platform The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera news service has said that it was subjected to a series of cyber-hacking attempts to penetrate some of its platforms and websites this week. It did not explain if this was a DDoS attack or something more sophisticated.

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McDonald’s discloses data breach in US, Taiwan and South Korea

Security Affairs

McDonald’s fast-food chain disclosed a data breach, hackers have stolen information belonging to customers and employees from the US, South Korea, and Taiwan. McDonald’s, the world’s largest restaurant chain by revenue, has disclosed a data breach that impacted customers and employees from the US, South Korea, and Taiwan. The hackers compromised the system of the company and have stolen business contact info belonging to US employees and franchises, the company pointed out that

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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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As Ransomware Demands Boom, Insurance Keeps Paying Out

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While major carriers like AXA have backed away from covering ransoms, don't expect the industry at large to break the vicious cycle.

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What You Should Know About Voilá, the Latest Viral Selfie App

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Before you use it to cartoonify your face, consider the risks to your data.

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How your medical data can save lives | Letters

The Guardian Data Protection

It is easy to mistrust big data collection, but for health the benefits are well established Kenan Malik entered an argument with many facets (“ Tell me how you’ll use my medical data. Only then might I sign up ”, Comment). The truth is that smaller, but substantial, de-identified health datasets have existed in the UK for years and have contributed appreciably to clinical knowledge that saves lives.

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Google Won't Kill the URL After All

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Plus: A Colonial Pipeline update, inside details of the FBI's Anom caper, and more of the week's top security news.