Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The U.S. CISA has created a list of free cybersecurity tools and services that can help organizations increase their resilience. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced this week that it has compiled a list of free cybersecurity tools and services that can help organizations to reduce cybersecurity risk and increase resilience.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

A super quick intro this week as I take a bit of time out before a hectic week. It's hotel room quality audio this week, but that's a temporary state before I'm back home next week. I hope you entry week 283, so much FUD to debunk on website identity verification. References I took issues - lots of issues - with DigiCert's guidance around ho to verify website identity (with the EV cash cow dead, it's desperate times.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

WordPress forces the update of the UpdraftPlus plugin patch on 3 million sites to fix a high-severity vulnerability. WordPress has forced the update of the UpdraftPlus plugin around three million sites to address a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0633 (CVSS v3.1 score of 8.5) that can allow website subscribers to download the latest database backups, which could potentially contain sensitive data. “The UpdraftPlus WordPress plugin Free before 1.22.3 and Premium before 2.22

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Plus: A crypto crime crackdown, Roblox ripoffs, and more of the week’s top security news.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The White House has linked the recent DDoS attacks against Ukraine ‘s banks and defense agencies to Russia’s GRU. The White House has linked the recent DDoS attacks that took offline the sites of banks and defense agencies of Ukraine to Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (aka GRU). This week, the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine and state-owned banks, Privatbank (Ukraine’s largest bank) and Oschadbank were hit by Distributed De

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