Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Cybercriminals are abusing Facebook ads in a large-scale phishing scam aimed at stealing victims’ login credentials. Researchers from security firm ThreatNix spotted a new large-scale campaign abusing Facebook ads. Threat actors are using Facebook ads to redirect users to Github accounts hosting phishing pages used to steal victims’ login credentials.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2021

It's a new year! With lots of breaches to discuss already ? Ok, so these may not be 2021 breaches but I betcha that by next week's update there'll be brand new ones from the new year to discuss. I managed to get enough connectivity in the middle of the Australian outback in front of Uluru to do the live stream this week, plus talk a bunch more about what we've been doing on our epic Australian journey.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Zyxel addressed a critical flaw in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 , related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has addressed a critical vulnerability in its firmware related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 received a CVSS score of 7.8, it could be exploited by an attacker to login with administrative privileges and take over the networking devices. “Firmw

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Threatpost

JANUARY 1, 2021

Reflecting on 2020's record-breaking year of spam and inbox threats.

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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

JANUARY 1, 2021

Today Adobe Flash Player has reached its end of life (EOL), its vulnerabilities were exploited by multiple threat actors in attacks in the wild over the years. Adobe Flash Player has reached the end of life (EOL) today, over the years, threat actors have exploited multiple vulnerabilities in the popular software. Adobe will no longer release updates for its Flash Player and web browsers will not offer the support for the Adobe Flash Plugin. “Since Adobe will no longer be supporting Flash P

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Experts from threat intelligence firm Cyble have found documents relating to Covid-19 vaccine of European Medicines Agency in the Darkweb. Security experts from threat intelligence firm Cyble have found several documents relating to the Covid-19 vaccine allegedly stolen from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) leaked in the Darkweb. While the pandemic is spreading on a global scale, threat actors continue to target government organizations and entities in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Collibra

JANUARY 1, 2021

Data-driven organizations rely on business intelligence (BI) tools like Google Looker to derive insights from data. Yet those insights are only of true value when they are derived from trusted data. At the same time, changing workplace practices brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic have placed even greater emphasis on maintaining agile data operations and ensuring effective data governance.

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IG Guru

JANUARY 1, 2021

The post Happy New Year from IG GURU! appeared first on IG GURU.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 1, 2021

Delicious seafood pasta dish — includes squid — from America’s Test Kitchen. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 1, 2021

Never in my five-plus decades has a year been so eagerly anticipated, which makes this business of prediction particularly daunting. I’m generally inclined to be optimistic, but rose-colored glasses stretch time. Good things always take longer to emerge than any of us would wish. Over 18 years of doing this I’ve learned that it’s best to not predict what I wish would happen, instead, it’s wise to go with what feels most likely in the worlds I find fascinating (for me, th

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