Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

The FBI announced that the number of cybercrime reports is spiked since the beginning of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Speaking at the Aspen Institute, FBI Deputy Assistant Director Tonya Ugoretz, announced that the bureau has observed a spike in cybercrime reports since the beginning of the C oronavirus pandemic. The FBI official explained that the number of reports has quadrupled compared to months before the COVID-19 outbreak. “The FBI has an Internet Crime Complaint Center, the

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 19, 2020

As the coronavirus crisis built to pandemic levels in early March, a relatively unknown tech company confronted a defining opportunity. Zoom Video Communications , a fast-growing enterprise videoconferencing platform with roots in both Silicon Valley and China, had already seen its market cap grow from under $10 billion to nearly double that. As the coronavirus began dominating news reports in the western press, Zoom announced its first full fiscal year results as a public company.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

The Tor Project cut a third of its staff due to the economic impact of the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak, 13 staffers out of 35 left the team. The ongoing Coronavirus outbreak has a significant impact on the Tor Project that was forced to cut a third of its staff due to the economic impact of the pandemic. The only proceeds to the organization are user donations.

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Lenny Zeltser

APRIL 19, 2020

You can now take my malware analysis and cybersecurity writing courses online in two formats at SANS Institute, depending on how you prefer to learn: OnDemand: Self-paced, recorded training with four months of access to course materials and labs. You’ll like this if you prefer to start, stop, or speed up training any time they want or who need the flexibility of extended access to the materials.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

ZDNet reported that a hacker has leaked 23 million credentials from the Webkinz World online children’s game. Webkinz are stuffed animals that have a playable online counterpart, www.webkinz.com, in “Webkinz World.” Webkinz were originally released by the Canadian toy company Ganz on April 29, 2005. Each Webkinz toy has an attached tag with a unique “Secret Code” printed on it that allows you to play with your pet in the “ Webkinz World” website.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

This post includes the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from April 12 to April 18, 2020. Threat actors exploit the interest in the Coronavirus outbreak while infections increase worldwide, experts are observing new campaigns on a daily bases. Below a list of attacks detected this week. April 14 – Crooks target Healthcare facilities involved in Coronavirus containment with Ransomware.

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 19, 2020

New tools from the tech giants shows the dramatic impact of sheltering in place, using location data from phones like yours.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

IT services giant Cognizant suffered a ransomware attack on Friday, according to BleepingComputer company was hit by the Maze Ransomware crew. Information technologies services giant Cognizant is the last victim of a ransomware attack, according to BleepingComputer the attack was launched by the Maze Ransomware gang. Cognizant is an American multinational corporation that provides IT services, it is one of the largest IT managed services company in the world with over $16 billion in revenue.

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Preservica

APRIL 19, 2020

Coming together as a community to capture and preserve this unprecedented time in our history. At our recent online global user group meeting we announced the #ourcovid19story initiative. The aim was to do our small part by supporting our user community - who are actively capturing, documenting and preserving the unfolding story of the pandemic for future generations - by donating free storage and providing additional training and support.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. A new e-skimmer found on WordPress site using the WooCommerce plugin Coronavirus-themed attacks April 05 – April 11, 2020 Thousands Zoom credentials available on a Dark Web forum 500,000+ Zoom accounts available for sale on the Dark Web Apple and Google join forces to develop Contact Tracing app against Coronavirus Danish pump maker DESMI reveals cyber attack Sodinokibi Ransomware crew chooses Monero f

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Archives Blogs

APRIL 19, 2020

This week Explore Our Campus focuses on the Pursuit of Knowledge or the Blue Boy as it is more often affectionately known. This sculpture is the work of artist Iain McColl. For subtitles please select that option in the settings tab on YouTube. In the film above one of our Curators Sarah discusses the sculpture and in particular the recent wool installation at the artwork by artists Gardner and Gardner.

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