Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Officials Have Also Slapped Sanctions on Iran Over Disinformation The Treasury Department has issued sanctions against a Russian research institute that U.S. officials now claim helped deploy Triton, a destructive malware designed to damage industrial control systems. The announcement follows other economic penalties levied against Iran in the same week.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Experts warn of a phishing campaign that already targeted up to 50,000 Office 365 users with a fake automated message from Microsoft Teams. Secruity researchers reported that up to 50,000 Office 365 users have been targeted by a phishing campaign that pretends to be automated message from Microsoft Teams. The bait message uses fake notifications of a “missed chat” from Microsoft Teams, the campaigns aims at stealing Office 365 recipients’ login credentials.

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Import.IO

OCTOBER 24, 2020

[UPDATE: Over the weekend Marcus Rashford continued to use his Twitter account to share announcements from local businesses offering to provide free meals for children over October half term. As of Monday morning he has shared announcements from over 400+ businesses.]. The web data story. We pulled the hundreds of Tweets that Rashford posted over the last day, for every Tweet that included a pin, we extracted the location name and geocoded it to get latitude and longitude coordinates that we co

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2020

The systems at the US-based ski and golf resort operator were infected with the WastedLocker ransomware, the incident impacted reservation systems. Boyne Resorts is a collection of mountain and lakeside resorts, ski areas, and attractions spanning from British Columbia to Maine. The company owns and operates eleven properties and an outdoor lifestyle equipment/apparel retail division with stores in cities throughout Michigan.

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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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Import.IO

OCTOBER 24, 2020

[UPDATE: Over the weekend Marcus Rashford continued to use his Twitter account to share announcements from local businesses offering to provide free meals for children over October half term. As of Monday morning he has shared announcements from over 400+ businesses.] The web data story We pulled the hundreds. The post Using web data to see how the UK answered Marcus Rashford’s call to “end child food poverty” appeared first on Import.io.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Plus: An Among Us spam attack, China's favorite vulnerabilities, and more of the week's top security news.

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