Mon.Dec 26, 2022

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Why Healthcare Needs to Beef Up Incident Response Plans

Data Breach Today

Effective testing of incident response plans continues to be a major weakness for many healthcare sector entities, especially those facing ransomware and other disruptive incidents, says Van Steel, a partner at consultancy LBMC Information Security.

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LastPass Breach

Schneier on Security

Last August, LastPass reported a security breach, saying that no customer information—or passwords—were compromised. Turns out the full story is worse : While no customer data was accessed during the August 2022 incident, some source code and technical information were stolen from our development environment and used to target another employee, obtaining credentials and keys which were used to access and decrypt some storage volumes within the cloud-based storage service. […].

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North Korean Hackers Steal NFTs via Phishing Websites

Data Breach Today

APT Groups Use 500 Decoy Domains of Popular NFT, DeFi Platforms North Korean attackers are using phishing websites to impersonate popular NFT platforms and DeFi marketplaces to steal digital assets worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. They set up nearly 500 decoy sites, including that of a project associated with the World Cup and NFT marketplace OpenSea.

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GuLoader implements new evasion techniques

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity researchers exposed new evasion techniques adopted by an advanced malware downloader called GuLoader. CrowdStrike researchers d a detailed multiple evasion techniques implemented by an advanced malware downloader called GuLoader (aka CloudEyE ). GuLoader uses a polymorphic shellcode loader to avoid traditional security solutions, the experts mapped all embedded DJB2 hash values for every API used by the malicious code.

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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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Linux Critical Kernel-level Bug Affects SMB Servers

Data Breach Today

Vulnerability With CVSS Score of 10 Affects KSMBD-enabled Servers A critical Linux kernel vulnerability exposed the server message block protocol to remote hacking with highest privileges. The vulnerability received the maximum possible severity rating of 10 on the CVSS scale owing to the kernel-level code execution privileges it gave to the attacker.

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Green light for US law enforcement to demand data from Australian communication providers

The Guardian Data Protection

Cloud Act deal will allow authorities to demand data from tech giants in days or weeks, rather than months or years A parliamentary inquiry has given the green light to greater information sharing with US law enforcement despite its concern Australians will be kept in the dark about the number of orders made for data. The joint standing committee on treaties has approved Australia’s Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (Cloud) Act agreement with the US, signed by the Morrison government in Dec

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The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2022

WIRED Threat Level

From SBF to the GRU, these were the most disruptive forces of online chaos this year.

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GuLoader implements new evasion techniques

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity researchers exposed new evasion techniques adopted by an advanced malware downloader called GuLoader. CrowdStrike researchers d a detailed multiple evasion techniques implemented by an advanced malware downloader called GuLoader (aka CloudEyE ). GuLoader uses a polymorphic shellcode loader to avoid traditional security solutions, the experts mapped all embedded DJB2 hash values for every API used by the malicious code.

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Predictions 2022: How’d I Do? Strangely, My Best Year Ever

John Battelle's Searchblog

I’m planning something different for my annual predictions this year – I’m going to take the balance of this week and write an individual post for each one of my prognostications. Then I’ll write a summary post with short descriptions of each. I usually do ten predictions each year, which means I’m planning on writing 11 posts this week.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.