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Latest Phishing Campaign Spoofs Microsoft Teams Messages

Data Breach Today

Fraudsters Look to Harvest Office 365 Credentials From At-Home Employees A recently uncovered phishing campaign is spoofing notifications from Microsoft's Teams collaboration platform in order to harvest Office 365 credentials from employees working from home offices because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research from Abnormal Security.

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Home affairs data breach may have exposed personal details of 700,000 migrants

The Guardian Data Protection

Exclusive: Privacy experts say the breach in the SkillsSelect platform, which affects data going back to 2014, was ‘very serious’ Privacy experts have blasted the home affairs department for a data breach revealing the personal details of 774,000 migrants and people aspiring to migrate to Australia, including partial names and the outcome of applications.

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French daily Le Figaro leaks 7.4 Billion records

Security Affairs

French daily Le Figaro database accidentally exposed online, the archive included roughly 7.4 billion records containing personal information of employees and users. French daily newspaper Le Figaro exposed roughly 7.4 billion records containing personally identifiable information (PII) of employees, reporters, and at least 42,000 users. The database was discovered by the Safety Detectives team of experts lead by the researcher Anurag Sen , it was over 8TB, the archive also included data of acco

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Coronavirus apps: how Australia's Covidsafe compares to other countries' contact tracing technology

The Guardian Data Protection

Here’s what we know about the apps being rolled out around the world to limit the spread of Covid-19 Sign up for Guardian Australia’s daily coronavirus email Download the free Guardian app to get the most important news notifications As countries around the world try to figure out the best way to limit the spread of coronavirus, many are considering some form of contact tracing app.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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TrickBot operators exploit COVID-19 as lures

Security Affairs

IBM X-Force researchers spotted a new COVID-19-themed campaign spreading the infamous TrickBot trojan through fake messages. IBM X-Force researchers uncovered a new COVID-19-themed campaign that is spreading the infamous TrickBot trojan through fake messages. The spam messages pretend to be sent by the Department of Labor’s Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and attempt to deliver the TrickBot trojan.

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I am archiving my old posts and relaunching my personal website later this year. The best place to see my recent content is on TikTok! @jkevinparker on TikTok.

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Fake Microsoft Teams notifications aim at stealing Office365 logins

Security Affairs

Phishing attacks impersonating notifications from Microsoft Teams targeted as many as 50,000 Teams users to steal Office365 logins. Abnormal Security experts observed two separate phishing attacks impersonating notifications from Microsoft Teams that targeted as many as 50,000 Teams users to steal Office365 logins. The popularity of Microsoft Teams has spiked as a result of the smart working adopted by many organizations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Spies Say Covid-19 Isn't Manmade

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: A malicious GIF, Android malware, and more of the week's top security news.

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President Trump’s executive order bans foreign electrical equipment from national power grid

Security Affairs

US power grid will not include any equipment manufactured by foreign states for security reasons, this states the executive order signed by President Trump. This week President Trump signed an executive order that prohibits operators of US power grids to buy and install electrical equipment that has been manufactured outside the US. “I further find that the unrestricted acquisition or use in the United States of bulk-power system electric equipment designed, developed, manufactured, or sup

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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.