Data Breach Today

JANUARY 16, 2021

Researchers Find Groups Hiding JavaScript Skimmers and Phishing Pages Several Magecart groups hide their JavaScript skimmers, phishing domains and other malicious tools behind a "bulletproof" hosting service called Media Land, according to researchers with RiskIQ. This particular service is notorious for catering to cybercriminals and hackers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2021

The development team behind the Linux Mint distro has fixed a security flaw that could have allowed users to bypass the OS screensaver. The maintainers of the Linux Mint project have addressed a security bug that could have allowed attackers to bypass the OS screensaver. The curious aspect of this vulnerability is related to its discovery, in fact, it was found by too children that were playing on their dad’s computer.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 16, 2021

Researchers: Notorious Underground Marketplace Will 'Retire' in February Joker's Stash, the notorious underground marketplace that has specialized in the sale of stolen payment card data, is reportedly shutting down in February with its administrator claiming to "retire" at that time, according to Gemini Advisory. Researchers say business will quickly move to other sites.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 16, 2021

Platforms are scrambling to avoid being used by right-wing extremists targeting the inauguration. But the seeds of this crisis were sown long ago.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 16, 2021

DOJ: Convicted Hacker Ardit Ferizi Faces Additional Criminal Charges The U.S. Justice Department has charged Ardit Ferizi, a Kosovo citizen, with fraud and identity theft, accusing him of continuing to commit various cybercrimes while he was behind bars and serving a 20-year prison sentence for aiding and assisting Islamic State terrorist groups.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 16, 2021

Researchers: Charming Kitten Campaign Used SMS and Email Messages A recent phishing campaign tied to an Iranian hacking group known as Charming Kitten used SMS and email messages to spread malicious links to steal the email credentials of potential victims in the U.S., Europe and the Persian Gulf region, security firm Certfa Lab reports.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2021

Joker’s Stash to shut down on February 15, 2021. Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online announced that it was shutting down its operations on February 15, 2021. Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online, announced that its operations will shut down on February 15, 2021. The administrator announced the decision via messages posted on various cybercrime forums.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 16, 2021

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently vacated a $4.3 million civil monetary penalty imposed by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) in 2017 against the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (“MD Anderson”). The Court held that OCR’s civil monetary penalty for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule and HIPAA Security Rule was “arbitrary, capricious, a

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 16, 2021

As tech companies scramble to tackle the extreme far-right, police and law enforcement are encasing Washington, DC, in a ring of steel.

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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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JANUARY 16, 2021

Siemens has addressed tens of vulnerabilities in Siemens Digital Industries Software products that can allow arbitrary code execution. Siemens has addressed 18 vulnerabilities affecting some products of Siemens Digital Industries Software which provides product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions. The vulnerabilities affect Siemens JT2Go, a 3D viewing tool for JT data (ISO-standardized 3D data format) and the Teamcenter Visualization solution.

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