Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Hackers have infected with a piece of malware some IoT devices running Windows 7 designed by three of the world’s largest manufacturers. Security experts from TrapX reported that some IoT devices running Windows 7 have been infected with a piece of malware, is it a supply chain attack? The experts reported that several IoT devices at some major manufacturers have been infected with a cryptocurrency miner in October 2019.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Experts say information sold on by Department of Health and Social Care can be traced back to individual medical records The Department of Health and Social Care has been selling the medical data of millions of NHS patients to American and other international drugs companies having misled the public into believing the information would be “anonymous”, according to leading experts in the field.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

The social network giant Facebook is still the target of hackers, its Facebook and Instagram accounts have been hijacked by the popular hacking group Our M ine. Yesterdat the popular hacking group OurMine hacked the Twitter and Instagram accounts for Facebook and Messenger. The company accounts have been quickly restored. The notorious Saudi Arabian OurMine hacking group has hacked accounts and systems of prominent experts and organizations across the years, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerber

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Machine-learning programs are analyzing websites, news reports, and social media posts for signs of symptoms, such as fever or breathing problems. .

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Artificial Intelligence Security 104

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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable — corp.com. It is sensitive because years of testing shows whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other proprietary data

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Group-IB experts detected a database containing over 460,000 payment card records uploaded to Joker’s Stash cardshops , most of records were from the Indian banks. Group-IB , a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , has detected a database containing over 460,000 payment card records uploaded to one of the most popular darknet cardshops ( Joker’s Stash ) on February 5.

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Sales Marketing Phishing Cybersecurity 121

WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Google photo sharing, Wacom tracking, and more of the week's top security news.

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