Data Breach Today

JANUARY 9, 2021

Bureau And Security Experts Warn About Gang's Effective Extortion Model The FBI has issued a private industry warning over the growing threat from the operators behind the Egregor ransomware variant and other cybercriminal gangs affiliated with the group. Since September, this crypto-locking malware has been associated with nearly 100 attacks worldwide.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2021

Dassault Falcon Jet has disclosed a data breach that exposed personal information belonging to current and former employees. In December Dassault, Dassault Falcon Jet (DFJ) was the victim of a cyber attack that may have exposed personal information belonging to current and former employees. The data security incident also exposed information belonging to employees’ spouses and dependents, states the notice of data breach sent by the US subsidiary of French aerospace company Dassault Aviati

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 9, 2021

Attack on Greater Baltimore Medical Center Spotlights the Fallout A Baltimore medical center that suffered a ransomware attack a month ago and pulled its electronic health record system offline as a precaution is finally beginning to restore access to the system, the organization's CEO says. It's the latest example of how cyberattacks can derail EHRs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2021

CISA revealed that threat actors behind the SolarWinds hack also used password guessing and password spraying in its attacks. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed that threat actors behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack also employed common hacker techniques to compromise the networks of the targeted organizations, including password guessing and password spraying. “Frequently, CISA has observed the APT actor gaining Initial Access [ TA0001 ] to victims’ ent

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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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JANUARY 9, 2021

Plus: Covid-19 contact tracing privacy, a Nissan source code leak, and more of the week's top security news.

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JANUARY 9, 2021

Social Media Firm Cites Concerns Over Violence Following Capital Riot Twitter permanently suspended the official account of President Donald Trump, with the social media firm citing concerns over violence following the riot by pro-Trump supporters at the Capitol. Facebook had already suspended Trump's account through the remainder of his term.

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Twitter has permanently suspended the account of President Donald Trump on Friday, due to the risk of further incitement of violence. Twitter has permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s account fearing his tweets may trigger a new wave of violence. In response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the President’s account was initially suspended for 12 hours on Wednesday, the social media platform said that its decision was caused by “severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy.”.

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