Sat.Jan 18, 2020

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Cybercrime Statistics in 2019

Security Affairs

I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020. Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow. According to the Cybersecurity Ventures’ cybercrime statistics 2017 cybercrime damages will amount to a staggering $6 trillion annually starting in 2021.

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Weekly Update 174

Troy Hunt

We're in Norway! More specifically, Scott Helme and I are in Hafjell and recording this after a day on the snow before heading back to Oslo and the NDC Security conference next week. For now though, we're talking about some really screwy global roaming behaviour with telcos, the Danish gov coming onto HIBP, babies in data breaches and the takedown of We Leak Info.

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Microsoft provides mitigation for actively exploited CVE-2020-0674 IE Zero-Day

Security Affairs

Microsoft published a security advisory to warn of an Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2020-0674) that is currently being exploited in the wild. Microsoft has published a security advisory ( ADV200001 ) that includes mitigations for a zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-0674, affecting Internet Explorer.

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FBI Takes Down Site With 12 Billion Stolen Records

WIRED Threat Level

Turkey gets Wikipedia back, Mayor Pete loses his cyberguy, 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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Turkish Hackers hit Greek Government websites and local stock exchange

Security Affairs

Turkish hackers hijacked for more than 1 hour the official websites of the Greek parliament, some ministries, as well as the country’s stock exchange. While eastern Libya ports controlled by commander Khalifa Haftar are shutting down oil exports, the group of Turkish hackers named Anka Neferler Tim claimed Friday to have hijacked for more than 90 minutes the official websites of the Greek parliament, the foreign affairs, and economy ministries, as well as the country’s stock exchange