Sat.Aug 07, 2021

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Hackers Target Critical Infrastructure in Southeast Asia

Data Breach Today

Symantec: China-Linked Actors Investigate SCADA Systems An unidentified hacking group with suspected Chinese ties is targeting critical infrastructure in Southeast Asia as part of a cyberespionage campaign to exfiltrate information about the victim's SCADA systems, says a report by security firm Symantec.

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CVE-2021-20090 actively exploited to target millions of IoT devices worldwide

Security Affairs

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass issue (CVE-2021-20090 ) affecting home routers with Arcadyan firmware. Threat actors actively exploit a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20090 , impacting home routers with Arcadyan firmware to deploy a Mirai bot. “A path traversal vulnerability in the web interfaces of Buffalo WSR-2533DHPL2 firmware version <= 1.02 and WSR-2533DHP3 firmware version <= 1.24 could allow unauthent

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AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test

WIRED Threat Level

Researchers found that tools like OpenAI's GPT-3 helped craft devilishly effective spearphishing messages.

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All the Ways Spotify Tracks You—and How to Stop It

WIRED Threat Level

Whether you're listening to workout music or a "cooking dinner" playlist, the app can show you ads based on your mood and what you're doing right now.

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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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Microsoft Edge’s ‘Super Duper Secure Mode’ Does What It Says

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: Facebook account hacks, Instagram-ban scammers, and more of the week’s top security news.