Data Breach Today

JANUARY 23, 2021

Incident Forced Intel to Release Results Earlier Than Planned Intel is investigating an incident in which an unauthorized person accessed a portion of the company's latest quarterly financial report, forcing the chipmaker to release its earnings slightly earlier than planned.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

The Hacker News reported in exclusive that the security firm SonicWall was hacked as a result of a coordinated attack on its internal systems. TheHackerNews revealed in an exclusive that the security provider SonicWall was hacked on Friday. The company was targeted with a coordinated attack on its internal systems, threat actors exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in their VPN solutions, such as NetExtender VPN client version 10.x and Secure Mobile Access ( SMA ). “The San Jose-based compa

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 23, 2021

Emails Are Likely a Reconnaissance Mission for Future Email Compromise Fraudsters are using Google forms to target retail, telecom, healthcare, energy and manufacturing companies in an apparent reconnaissance campaign to identify targets for a possible follow-up business email compromise attack.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

A former ADT employee pleads guilty for accessing the cameras he installed at the home of the company’s customers in the Dallas area. Telesforo Aviles (35) is a former ADT employee that pleaded for accessing the cameras he installed at the home of the company’s customers. Every time the man worked at the home of a customer in the Dallas area where an attractive woman was living, he added his personal email address to customers’ “ADT Pulse” accounts, to have real-time access to the vi

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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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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 23, 2021

Hackers Circle Back to Again Attack Victims Who Refused to Pay an Earlier Ransom Demand Threat actors behind a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeted the same set of victims again after the organizations refused to pay the initial ransom demand, a new report by security firm Radware finds.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 23, 2021

Plus: A security company creeper, Biden’s cyberteam, and the rest of this week’s security news.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

Sophos experts believe that an Iranian company is behind a recently uncovered MrbMiner crypto-jacking campaign targeting SQL servers. Sophos researchers that investigated the recently uncovered crypto-mining campaign targeting SQL servers with MrbMiner malware believe that it was conducted by an Iran-based company. In September, a group of hackers launched brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers with the intent to compromise them and install crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 23, 2021

The line between browsers and password managers is blurring.

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