Data Breach Today

MAY 29, 2021

2022 Budget Proposal Seeks $750 Million for 'Lessons Learned' From SolarWinds The White House officially released its 2022 federal budget proposal on Friday, and the Biden administration is seeking to spend billions on cybersecurity next year, including $750 million for "lessons learned" from the SolarWinds attack. Officials also want to boost CISA's budget by $110 million.

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MAY 29, 2021

Fake, positive reviews have infiltrated nearly every corner of life online these days, confusing consumers while offering an unwelcome advantage to fraudsters and sub-par products everywhere. Happily, identifying and tracking these fake reviewer accounts is often the easiest way to spot scams. Here’s the story of how bogus reviews on a counterfeit Microsoft Authenticator browser extension exposed dozens of other extensions that siphoned personal and financial data.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 29, 2021

Sophos Says Epsilon Red Extorted $210,000 From One Victim A newly uncovered ransomware variant dubbed 'Epsilon Red' is targeting organizations in the US hospitality sector, with the threat actor successfully extorting $210,000 from one of its victims, a new report by security firm Sophos notes.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2021

The FBI is going to share compromised passwords discovered during investigations with Have I Been Pwned (HIBP)’s ‘Pwned Passwords’ service. The FBI will share compromised passwords that were discovered during investigations with the ‘ Pwned Passwords ‘ service implemented by the data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

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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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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 29, 2021

BravoMovies isn't real. But it puts in a remarkable amount of effort to convince you that it is.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 29, 2021

Plus: A major hack in Japan, Citizen app run amuck, and more of the week's top security news.

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IG Guru

MAY 29, 2021

Check out the article here. The post Records Manager takes aim at DoD 5015.2 appeared first on IG GURU.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 29, 2021

The pervasive metaphor likening information to crude obscures the reality of surveillance capitalism The phrase “data is the new oil” is the clich e du jour of the tech industry. It was coined by Clive Humby, the genius behind Tesco’s loyalty card, who argued that data was “just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analy

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2021

Secured Search is a browser hijacker that changes your browser’s settings to promote securedsearch.com, let’s remove it. Secured Search is the same piece of software as ByteFence Secure Browsing. It’s supposedly a tool that improves browsing security and privacy. In reality, it’s a browser hijacker. It alters your browser’s settings to promote securedsearch.com (which is not a legitimate search engine).

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