Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Fuzzing, Transparency, Bug Reporting, Security Basics and More Highlighted Security experts speaking on the ending "locknote" panel at this year's Black Hat Europe highlighted trends from the conference, including the rise of fuzzing, simplification via the cloud, increasing vendor transparency as well as the industry too often still failing to focus on the basics.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Security and consulting company SEC Consult announced the release of an open-source hardware analysis tool dubbed SEC Xtractor. Security firm SEC Consult announced the release of an open-source hardware analysis tool dubbed SEC Xtractor. The tool was initially designed for internal use , and was then adopted for several research projects over the years.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 8, 2019

I'm presently on the YOW! conference tour which means doing the same keynote three times over in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. It's my first time back at YOW! since 2015 and it's always a nice way to wrap up the year, especially the Brisbane leg I'm on at the moment in my home state. That's kept me busy, but it's some tweets last week that have kept me entertained so I'm talking about those as well as some reflections on what is now 6 years of running HIBP.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2019

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Data of 21 million Mixcloud users available for sale on the dark web. Google warned 12K+ users targeted by state-sponsored hackers. Twitter account of Huawei Mobile Brazil hacked. Clop Ransomware attempts to disable Windows Defender and Malwarebytes. Europol seized 30,506 Internet domain names for IP Infringement.

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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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Information Management Resources

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Continuous monitoring is critical if regulatory agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration are to reduce the risk in artificial and machine learning-based medical technology.

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The Guardian Data Protection

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Open Rights Group issue urgent notice to Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems, representing three individuals A data rights group has threatened legal action against the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats over the parties’ use of personal data ahead of Thursday’s election. A pre-action letter has been sent by Open Rights Group on behalf of three individuals who had requested their data from the parties and were dissatisfied with their responses.

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The Guardian Data Protection

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Donald Trump has made clear he wants a post-Brexit Britain to let US tech companies and big pharma access medical records The NHS is a goldmine of patient data which the United States wants to be quarried by some of its biggest companies. Britain’s health service is home to a unique medical dataset that covers the entire population from birth to death.

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