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Going Digital Virtual Event Speaker Sneak Peak Series: Rich Lauwers and Ryan Bazler

AIIM

Our third and final installment of our virtual event sneak peak is here. We are so close to unveiling “ Going Digital: Strategies for Digitalizing the Enterprise ”! Take a look at what you can look forward to: Another presenter we chatted with is Rich Lauwers of EIG, LLC. Rich will help you stretch your thinking outside the bounds of the IT perspective when it comes to the cloud.

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Kraken ransomware 2.0 is available through the RaaS model

Security Affairs

The author of the infamous Kraken ransomware has released a new version of the malicious code and launched a RaaS distribution program on the Dark Web. Researchers from Recorded Future’s Insikt Group and McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team have discovered a new version of the malware that is offered through a RaaS distribution program on the Dark Web.

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How to Control What Websites Can Do on Your Computer

WIRED Threat Level

If you're not careful, websites can grab all kinds of permissions you don't realize or intend. Take back control in your browser.

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Apple T2 security chip in new MacBooks disconnects Microphone when lid is closed

Security Affairs

Apple has implemented a new feature to protect the privacy of its MacBooks users aimed at preventing malicious software from spying on them. The Apple T2 security chip installed in the new series of MacBooks includes a new hardware feature that physically disconnects the built-in microphone when the lid is closed. The new T2 chip is installed in the 2018 MacBook Pro models that were presented earlier this year, but it was revealed only last week.

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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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A Primer on DNS and Security

PerezBox

If you’re reading this article you’ve interacted with DNS. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to spend any time online and not interact with DNS. Many of us spend very. Read More. The post A Primer on DNS and Security appeared first on PerezBox.

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Managed Threat Hunting Bridges the Talent Gap

The Security Ledger

Skilled operators make all the difference in incident response and threat hunting. With talent scarce (and expensive), however, managed threat hunting teams may be worth a look, writes Scott Taschler of the firm Crowdstrike. As we discussed in “Uncovering the Unknown Unknowns,” threat hunting is a critical discipline that more organizations. Read the whole entry. » Related Stories NotPetya Horror Story Highlights Need for Holistic Security How Digital Transformation is forcing GRC to evolve

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Results of the Microsoft Office 365 eDiscovery Challenge Survey: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

Remember the Microsoft Office 365 eDiscovery Challenge Survey that Tom O’Connor and Don Swanson were conducting? The results are in! The results were published on Bob Ambrogi’s LawSites blog last week. The survey was conducted over seven weeks using both an online SurveyMonkey tool and telephone interviews. Tom and Don received a total of 75 survey responses from corporations, government agencies and law firms, with the estimated breakdown of respondents mostly being from corporate legal ( 69

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Who’s In Your Online Shopping Cart?

Krebs on Security

Crooks who hack online merchants to steal payment card data are constantly coming up with crafty ways to hide their malicious code on Web sites. In Internet ages past, this often meant obfuscating it as giant blobs of gibberish text that was obvious even to the untrained eye. These days, a compromised e-commerce site is more likely to be seeded with a tiny snippet of code that invokes a hostile domain which appears harmless or that is virtually indistinguishable from the hacked site’s own

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PortSmash flaw in Hyper-Threading CPU could allow sensitive data theft

Security Affairs

PortSmash side-channel flaw that could be exploited with a timing attack to steal information from other processes running in the same CPU core. PortSmash is a new side-channel vulnerability that could be exploited with a timing attack to steal information from other processes running in the same CPU core with SMT/hyper-threading enabled. A group of researchers from Tampere University of Technology in Finland (Billy Bob Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia, Sohaib ul Hassan, and Nicola Tuveri) and the

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp Accuses Georgia Democrats of Hacking

WIRED Threat Level

Georgia's secretary of state is also its GOP gubernatorial candidate. And he just claimed that Democrats committed "cyber crimes.".

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