The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Tribunal ruling noted Brexit campaign and insurance company owned by its key backer had a ‘two-faced approach to regulation’ The Leave.EU campaign and the insurance company owned by the political group’s key financial backer, Arron Banks, have lost an appeal against £105,000 of fines for data protection violations in the wake of the EU referendum campaign.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The FBI is warning companies about the use of out-of-date Windows 7 systems, desktop sharing software TeamViewer, and weak account passwords. The FBI issues this week a Private Industry Notification (PIN) alert to warn companies about the risks of using out-of-date Windows 7 systems, poor account passwords, and desktop sharing software TeamViewer. The alert comes after the recent attacks on the Oldsmar water treatment plant’s network where attackers tried to raise levels of sodium hydroxid

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The lucrative business of dealing in code vulnerabilities is central to espionage and war planning, which is why brokers never spoke about it—until now.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

PayPal has addressed a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that affected the currency converter feature of user wallets. PayPal has fixed a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that was discovered in the currency converter feature of user wallets on February 19, 2020, close one year ago. The ‘reflected XSS and CSP bypass’ vulnerability was reported by the bug bounty hunter “ Cr33pb0y ” through the HackerOne platform. “An endpoint used fo

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The administrators of the most popular carding marketplace on the dark web Joker’s Stash announced his retirement. Cybercriminal behind the most prominent carding marketplace on the dark web Joker’s Stash retires, he will shut down its servers and destroy the backups. According to Forbes, the man has amassed a billion dollars worth of Bitcoin with its activity. “The criminal behind the Joker’s Stash site, which trades in stolen credit and debit card data, has announced th

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