WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 19, 2018

Your phone number is increasingly tied to your online identity. You need to do everything possible to protect it.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

The North Korea-linked Dark Hotel APT group is leveraging the recently patched CVE-2018-8373 vulnerability in the VBScript engine in attacks in the wild. The vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11, it was first disclosed last month by Trend Micro and affected all supported versions of Windows. The flaw could be exploited by remote attackers to take control of the vulnerable systems by tricking victims into viewing a specially crafted website through Internet Explorer.

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CILIP

AUGUST 19, 2018

? Judicial review analysis: call for clarity. A JUDGE has ruled that Northamptonshire County Council?s decision to decommission 21 libraries is unlawful but the judgement?s impact on the wider public library sector remains open to interpretation. Mrs Justice Yip found that Northamptonshire County Council?s decision-making processes were unlawful but stopped short of clarifying the authority?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

Researchers from Trustwave have uncovered a malspam campaign targeting banks with the FlawedAmmyy RAT. The peculiarity of this malspam campaign i s the unusual use of a Microsoft Office Publisher file to infect victims’ systems. Experts noticed an anomalous spike in the number of emails with a Microsoft Office Publisher file (a.pub attachment) and the subject line, “Payment Advice,” that was sent to domains belonging to banks.

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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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eDiscovery Daily

AUGUST 19, 2018

The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual educational conference of 2018 (known as ILTACON) kicked off yesterday with several networking events, and begins in earnest today with the first day of sessions. As always, eDiscovery Daily will once again be covering the show and, this year, CloudNine will exhibiting at the show and participating in a major way.

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