Sat.Sep 21, 2019

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7 Ways VPNs Can Turn from Ally to Threat

Dark Reading

VPNs are critical pieces of the security infrastructure, but they can be vulnerable, hackable, and weaponized against you. Here are seven things to be aware of before you ignore your VPN.

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Iran denies successful cyber attacks hit infrastructures of its oil sector

Security Affairs

In the last hours, some western media reported destructive cyber attacks against infrastructures in the Iranian oil sector, but Iran denied it. Last week drone attacks have hit two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, one of them is the Abqaiq site. Western Governments and Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for the attacks.

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A Simple Way to Make It Harder for Mobile Ads to Track You

WIRED Threat Level

Beating back the scourge of online ad tracking entirely is almost impossible. But you can futz with your smartphone's "ad ID" to slow it down.

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MMD-0063-2019 – Summarize report of three years MalwareMustDie research (Sept 2016-Sept 2019)

Security Affairs

Hello, it’s unixfreaxjp here. It has been a while since I wrote our own blog, and it is good to be back. Thank you for your patience for all of this time. The background. It was after September 2016 when we decided to move our blog and since then I had a lot of fun in learning and experimenting much with “Jekyll” (based on “Poole”) and “BlackDoc”, and I just convert all posts statically into “Markdown” and all syntax highlighter into “R

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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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Extreme-Risk Laws Reduce Gun Violence

WIRED Threat Level

Opinion: Red Flag laws help prevent suicides and mass shootings, and buy time for people in crisis to get help.

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Hackers Hit Click2Gov Bill-Paying Portals in 8 Cities

WIRED Threat Level

The new wave of attacks comes after a previous Click2Gov hack compromised 300,000 payment cards.

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5 Cybersecurity Trends in the Professional Services Sector

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity is an increasingly significant focus for many companies as cyberattacks become more frequent and more costly. Which are 5 Cybersecurity trends in the professional services sector? Professional services organizations are especially vulnerable due to the high value of the industry and the data they store — like Social Security numbers, personal financial information and classified business communications.

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WeWork's Wi-Fi Is Woefully Insecure

WIRED Threat Level

The Saudi oil strike, a license plate privacy disaster, and more of the week's top security news.

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