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A data breach broker is selling account databases of 17 companies

Security Affairs

A threat actor is offering for sale account databases containing an aggregate total of 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies. A data breach broker is selling account databases containing a total of 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies. The threat actor is advertising the stolen data since October 28 on a hacker forum. Source Bleeping Computer.

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Beware a New Google Drive Scam Landing in Inboxes

WIRED Threat Level

Scammers are luring people into Google Docs in an attempt to get them to visit potentially malicious websites.

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Maze ransomware is going out of the business

Security Affairs

The Maze ransomware operators are shutting down their operations for more than one year the appeared on the threat landscape in May 2019. The Maze cybercrime gang is shutting down its operations, it was considered one of the most prominent and active ransomware crew since it began operating in May 2019. The gang was the first to introduce a double-extortion model in the cybercrime landscape at the end of 2019.

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Managing Social Distance in the Lab

RFID Global Solution, Inc.

Join the RFID Global team online, Nov. 11-12 at the Lab Asset Management virtual conference. The post Managing Social Distance in the Lab appeared first on RFID Global Solution.

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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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Nuclear Regulation Authority shut down email systems after a cyber attack

Security Affairs

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) issued a warning of temporary suspension of its email systems, likely caused by a cyber attack. The Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) temporarily suspended its email systems, the interruption is likely caused by a cyber attack. The agency published a warning on its website, it is asking people to contact it via phone or fax because it is unable to receive emails from the outside world. “From 17:00 on October 27, 2nd year of Reiwa, sending

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103,000 machines are still vulnerable to SMBGhost attacks

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Eight months after Microsoft issued a patch for the critical SMBGhost issues over 100,000 systems exposed online are still vulnerable to this attack. In March, Microsoft has addressed the critical SMBGhost vulnerability ( CVE-2020-0796 ) in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. “A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3) protocol handles certain requests.

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On Legitimacy

Adam Shostack

The first function of democracy is to enable the peaceful handover of power from one group to another. For this, all its myriad sins are forgiven. The peaceful handover of power from one group to another is not a sure thing. Historically, it’s something of an aberration. There are all sorts of reasons, when you are powerful, to not want to hand over that power.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 287

Security Affairs

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. HPE addresses critical auth bypass issue in SSMC console Is the Abaddon RAT the first malware using Discord as C&C? New Emotet attacks use a new template urging recipients to upgrade Microsoft Word COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer suffers a data breach Finnish psychotherapy center Vastaamo suffered a shocking security breach KashmirBlack, a ne

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What Are the Trade-Offs that Make Trump Ok?

PerezBox

A question was recently posed looking to understand the actual trade-offs people were making that allowed them to vote Trump. Let me caveat by saying how crazy a time we. Read More. The post What Are the Trade-Offs that Make Trump Ok? appeared first on PerezBox.

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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.