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Unpatched Ethereum Clients expose the ecosystem to 51% Attack risk

Security Affairs

Security researchers from SRLabs have published a report that analyzed the risks for Ethereum network caused by unpatched Ethereum clients. Researchers at SRLabs published a report based on ethernodes.org data, that revealed that a large number of nodes using the popular clients Parity and Geth is still unpatched. The expert discovered that the Ethereum clients and its users remained exposed for “extended periods of time” after security patches have been released. “SRLabs research suggests

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Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security Risk

WIRED Threat Level

Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy are incredibly convenient—but increasingly at the center of a lot of security lapses.

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Dutch intelligence investigate alleged Huawei ‘backdoor’

Security Affairs

Dutch intelligence services are probing Huawei for possibly spying for the Chinese government by using a “back door” in equipment of major telecoms firms. Dutch intelligence probes Huawei for possibly spying for the Chinese government by using a “back door” in the equipment used by major telecoms firms. Dutch intelligence shares the concerns raised by other western governments about the risks of involving the Chinese telco giant in the creation of the new 5G mobile phone

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Weekly Update 139

Troy Hunt

Per the beginning of the video, it's out late, I'm jet lagged, all my clothes are dirty and I've had to raid the conference swag cupboard to even find a clean t-shirt. But be that as it may, I'm yet to miss one of these weekly vids in the 2 and a half years I've been doing them and I'm not going to start now! So with that very short intro done, here's this week's and I'll try and be a little more on the ball for the next one.

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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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Salesforce faced one of its biggest service disruption of ever

Security Affairs

Salesforce is facing a huge outage, it shut down a good portion of its infrastructure due to change to the production environment. A change in the production environment is the root cause of the broad outage suffered by Salesforce. The service disruption affected its Pardot B2B marketing automation system, the cloud CRM company’s change broke access privileges settings across organizations and gave customers access to all of their respective company’s files. “One of our project

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Biggest eDiscovery Challenges Facing Plaintiff’s Attorneys, Part Three

eDiscovery Daily

Editor’s Note: Tom O’Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker, and writer in the field of computerized litigation support systems. He has also been a great addition to our webinar program, participating with me on several recent webinars. Tom has also written several terrific informational overview series for CloudNine, including his most recent one, Why Does Production Have to be Such a Big Production?

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Penn offers free machine learning to analyze data

Information Management Resources

The Penn Medicine Institute for Biomedical Informatics has launched a free, open-source automated artificial intelligence tool for both laymen and experts to conduct data analysis.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 214 – News of the week

Security Affairs

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. If you appreciate my effort in spreading cybersecurity awareness, please vote for Security Affairs in the section “Your Vote for the Best EU Security Tweeter” [link]. Hacking the ‘Unhackable eyeDisk USB stick.