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AUGUST 15, 2020

Banking Trojan Has Become More Prevalent Since COVID-19 The IcedID banking Trojan has been updated with additional evasion techniques including a password-protected attachment, keyword obfuscation and a DLL file that acts as a second stage downloader, according to Juniper Threat Labs.

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Over the last few years, so-called jackpotting attacks have gotten increasingly sophisticated—while cash machines remain largely the same.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 15, 2020

Leaked Materials Prompt Questions About Test Integrity and Access to Exam Questions Who watches the penetration-testing testers? Questions are circulating over how some organizations train their employees for the CREST pen-testing certification after some leaked internal documents appeared to contain material from past tests.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2020

A new Mac malware, tracked as XCSSET, spreads through Xcode projects and exploits two zero-day vulnerabilities, experts warn. XCSSET is a new Mac malware that spreads through Xcode projects and exploits two zero-day vulnerabilities to steal sensitive information from target systems and launch ransomware attacks. The first zero-day issue is used to steal cookies via a flaw in the behavior of Data Vaults , while the second one is used to abuse the development version of Safari.

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Plus: TikTok tracking, Russian SIMs, and more of this week's top security news.

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AUGUST 15, 2020

If we take back control of our data, we can use it for good • Time to reset: more brilliant ideas to remake the world Social media doesn’t have to bring us only junk news and misinformation about coronavirus. Unfortunately, big platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter aren’t designed to promote healthy debate, find consensus, or solve problems.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2020

Security researchers have discovered a PoC exploit code available online that can be used to trigger unpatched security flaws in Apache Struts 2. Security researchers have discovered a PoC code and exploit available on GitHub that that can be used to trigger the security vulnerabilities in Apache Struts 2. The Proof-of-concept exploit code was released last week, it allows to trigger the CVE-2019-0230 and CVE-2019-0233 vulnerabilities in Apache Struts 2 that are classified as remote code-executi

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 15, 2020

Executive Order Cites National Security and Gives 90 Days to Divest President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order that requires TikTok owner ByteDance to divest from its U.S. operations within 90 days. In the new order, Trump cites national security concerns in demanding the Chinese company to spin off or sell its American assets.

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AUGUST 15, 2020

The Emotet malware has begun to spam COVID19-themed emails to U.S. businesses after not being active for most of the USA pandemic. The infamous Emotet malware is back, operators have begun to spam COVID-19 themed emails to the U.S. businesses. Early this year, the Emotet malware was employed in spam COVID19-themed campaigns that targeted those countries that were already affected by the pandemic.

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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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