Sat.Jun 19, 2021

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North Korean APT group Kimsuky allegedly hacked South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI

Security Affairs

North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky allegedly breached South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI by exploiting a VPN vulnerability. South Korean representatives declared on Friday that North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky is believed to have breached the internal network of the South Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in Daejeon, South Korea was established in 1959 as the sole professional research-oriented institute for nuclea

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Weekly Update 248

Troy Hunt

Thought I'd do a bit of AMA this week given the rest of the content was a bit lighter. If you like this sort of content then I'll try and be a bit more organised next time, give some notice and make more of an event out of it. Other than that, I'm screwing around with more IoT things, dealing with more breaches, onboarding new governments so yeah, same same 🙂 References Here's the iFixit kit I bought, it's the "Pro Tech Toolkit" (this is a really nice pie

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RedFoxtrot operations linked to China’s PLA Unit 69010 due to bad opsec

Security Affairs

Experts attribute a series of cyber-espionage campaigns dating back to 2014, and focused on gathering military intelligence, to China-linked Unit 69010. Experts from Recorded Future’s Insikt Group linked a series of attacks, part of RedFoxtrot China-linked campaigns, to the PLA China-linked Unit 69010. The cyber-espionage campaigns dated back 2014 and focused on gathering military intelligence from neighboring countries were attributed to a Chinese military unit operating out of the city of Ürüm

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A Bug in the Android Google App Put Privacy at Risk

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: Airbnb's safety squad, a fake pharmacy crackdown, and more of the week's top security news.

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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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Juneteenth: A New Federal Holiday

Adam Shostack

I’m thrilled that Juneteenth will be a Federal holiday. We need more holidays that celebrate freedom, and there’s few events that increase freedom as much as emancipating people who were enslaved. That is, freeing them from the threat violence would be used against them, and they would have no recourse. The United States also needs more holidays that celebrate the United part.

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Remember This On Juneteenth

Hanzo Learning Center

On this Juneteenth, we honor the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, knowing that it is now an official federal holiday. U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act on the 17th of June. The holiday, celebrated on the 19th of June every year, commemorates the ending of slavery. It marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally learned they were free from bondage, around two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation had t

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Rembember This On Juneteenth

Hanzo Learning Center

On this Juneteenth, we honor the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, knowing that it is now an official federal holiday. U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act on the 17th of June. The holiday, celebrated on the 19th of June every year, commemorates the ending of slavery. It marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally learned they were free from bondage, around two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation had t