Sat.May 14, 2022

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The LEGION collective calls to action to attack the final of the Eurovision song contest

Security Affairs

The Pro-Russian volunteer movement known as LEGION is calling to launch DDoS attacks against the final of the Eurovision song contest. The LEGION is a Pro-Russian volunteer movement that focuses on DDOS attacks. The group made the headlines for attacks against Western organizations and governments, including NATO countries and Ukraine. This week the Pro-Russian hacker group Killnet and Legion targeted the websites of several Italian institutions , including the senate and the National Institute

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How to Turn a Coke Can Into an Eavesdropping Device

Dark Reading

Cyber-researchers are testing the bounds of optical attacks with a technique that allows attackers to recover voice audio from meetings if there are shiny, lightweight objects nearby.

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Pro-Russian hacktivists target Italy government websites

Security Affairs

Pro-Russian hacker group Killnet targeted the websites of several Italian institutions, including the senate and the National Institute of Health. A group of Pro-Russian hackers known as “ Killnet ” launched an attack against multiple websites of several Italian institutions, including the senate, the National Institute of Health, and the Automobile Club d’Italia (ACI), the national drivers’ association.

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Weekly Update 295

Troy Hunt

A short one this week as the previous 7 days disappeared with AusCERT and other commitments. Geez it was nice to not only be back at an event, but out there socialising and attending all the related things that tend to go along with it. I'll leave you with this tweet which was a bit of a highlight for me, having Ari alongside me at the event and watching his enthusiasm being part of the industry I love 😊 At #AusCERT with Ari for “take your son to work” day 🙂 I&

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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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The NSA Swears It Has ‘No Backdoors’ in Next-Gen Encryption

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: New details of ICE’s dragnet surveillance in the US, Clearview AI agrees to limit sales of its faceprint database, and more.

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OpRussia update: Anonymous breached other organizations

Security Affairs

Another week has passed and Anonymous has hacked other Russian companies and leaked their data via DDoSecrets. The #OpRussia launched by Anonymous on Russia after the criminal invasion of Ukraine continues, the collective claims to have hacked multiple organizations and government entities. The hacktivists leaked the stolen data via DDoSecrets. Below is the list of organizations breached this week by Anonymous: SOCAR Energoresource operates the Antipinsky Refinery and several oilfields.

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