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Illinois Man Convicted of Running DDoS Facilitation Websites

Data Breach Today

Matthew Gatrel Offered Subscription-Based Computer Attack Platforms An Illinois man has been found guilty of running subscription-based distributed denial of service attacks that enabled customers to launch DDoS strikes of their own. He is now facing a statutory maximum sentence of 35 years in federal prison when sentenced in January 2022.

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Why Edward Snowden is urging users to stop using ExpressVPN?

Security Affairs

The popular whistleblower Edward Snowden recommends customers of ExpressVPN VPN service to stop using it. Last week the Israeli cybersecurity firm Kape Technologies has acquired the industry’s leading virtual private networks ExpressVPN, as part of a $936 million deal. Kape announced that the acquisition will more than double its overall customer base, from almost 3 million customers to more than 6 million.

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How to Set Up a NAS to Securely Share Files

WIRED Threat Level

From file backups to movie streaming, network attached storage drives offer plenty of functions and features.

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Pakistani man sentenced to 12 years of prison for his role in AT&T hacking scheme

Security Affairs

A Pakistani national has been sentenced to 12 years of prison in the US for his role in a hacking scheme against the telecom giant AT&T. The Pakistani national Muhammad Fahd (35) was sentenced to 12 years of prison in the United States for his primary role in a seven-year scheme to illegally unlock nearly 2 million AT&T phones. Fahd was the mind behind a criminal scheme that begun in 2012 and that caused more than $200 million in losses to the company, according to DoJ, he continued his

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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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Numando, a new banking Trojan that abuses YouTube for remote configuration

Security Affairs

Numando, a new banking Trojan that abuses YouTube, Pastebin, and other public platforms as C2 infrastructure and to spread. ESET researchers spotted a new LATAM banking trojan, tracked as Numando, that abuses YouTube, Pastebin, and other public platforms as C2 infrastructure and to spread. The threat actor behind this banking Trojan has been active since at least 2018, it focuses almost exclusively on Brazil but experts spotted rare attacks against users in Mexico and Spain.