Sat.Dec 17, 2022

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Co-Founder of OneCoin Cryptocurrency Scam Pleads Guilty

Data Breach Today

International Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Pyramid Scheme Netted $4 Billion Karl Sebastian Greenwood, a dual citizen of Sweden and the United Kingdom pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to his role in selling the purported multi-billion-dollar cryptocurrency pyramid OneCoin that netted $4 billion. He now faces sentencing.

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Samba addressed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities

Security Affairs

Samba released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities that can be exploited to take control of impacted systems. Samba released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-38023, CVE-2022-37966, CVE-2022-37967, and CVE-2022-45141, that can be exploited to take control of impacted systems. On December 15, 2022, Samba announced the 4.17.4, 4.16.8 and 4.15.13 security releases to address the above issues.

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How CISOs Can Guard Against Their Own Liability

Data Breach Today

In Wake of Joe Sullivan Verdict, Jonathan Armstrong Offers Legal Advice for CISOs In October, former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan was convicted of covering up a 2016 data breach. The trial likely marked the first time a chief security officer had faced criminal charges over incident response. Attorney Jonathan Armstrong says, "This trend is going to be difficult to put back in the box.

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An Alleged Russian Smuggling Ring Was Uncovered in New Hampshire

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: An FBI platform got hacked, an ex-Twitter employee is sentenced for espionage, malicious Windows 10 installers circulate in Ukraine, and more.

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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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Subcontractor Breach Affects 245K Medicare Beneficiaries

Data Breach Today

CMS: Vendor 'Violated Obligations' to Agency; New Medicare Cards, IDs Being Issued More than a quarter million Medicare beneficiaries will be issued new Medicare cards and identifiers following a ransomware attack on a government contractor compromising a range of sensitive personal and health information.

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IronNet Nearly Insolvent; Board to Probe Claims of Deception

Data Breach Today

Firm Led by Former Army Gen. Keith Alexander Lacks Money to Pay December Bills IronNet is just days away from insolvency and its board of directors says it will investigate allegations that company executives mislead investors over growth projections. The firm was founded and is helmed by former head of ex-NSA Director and U.S. Cyber Command chief Army Gen.

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