Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Legislation Seeks to Address ID Theft and Fraud Stemming From Breaches A bipartisan bill is looking to take some initial steps in creating nation-wide digital identity standards that can address a range of security issues, including theft and fraud stemming from data breaches. The legislation is already backed by the Better Identity Coalition.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

The Development Bank of Seychelles (DBS) was hit by a ransomware attack disclose the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS). The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) disclosed via a press statement that the Development Bank of Seychelles (DBS) was hit by a ransomware attack. DBS is a joint venture by the Seychelles government and some shareholders including Bank, Caisse Francaise de Cooperation, European Investment Bank, DEG, Standard Chartered Bank, and Barclays Bank. .

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Plus: Ransomware holds up schools, Zoom adds two-factor, and more of the week's top security news.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

The INVDoS (Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service) Attack would have allowed hackers to crash Bitcoin nodes and alternative chains. Two years ago, the Bitcoin protocol engineer Braydon Fuller. discovered a major uncontrolled memory resource consumption denial-of-service vulnerability ( INVDoS ), tracked as CVE-2018-17145 , that affected the peer-to-peer network code of three implementations of Bitcoin and other blockchains, including Litecoin, Namecoin, and Decred, The researcher ke

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

A cybercrime group named Malàsmoke has been targeting porn sites over the past months with malicious ads redirecting users to exploit kits. A cybercrime group named Malàsmoke has been targeting porn sites over the past months, it is placing malicious ads on adult-themed websites to redirect users to exploit kits and deliver malware. According to researchers from Malwarebytes, the gang was abusing practically all adult ad networks, but in the last campaign, they hit for the first time a top publi

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