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Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss ‘s phone was allegedly hacked by Russian spies

Security Affairs

According to the Daily Mail, Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss ‘s personal phone was hacked by Russian spies. The personal mobile phone of British Prime Minister Liz Truss was hacked by cyber spies suspected of working for the Kremlin, the Daily Mail reported. According to the British tabloid, the cyber-spies are believed to have gained access to top-secret exchanges with key international partners as well as private conversations with his friend, the British Conservative Party polit

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[EYE OPENER] Phishing Attacks 61% Up Over 2021. A Whopping 255 Million Attacks This Year So Far

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Security Magazine wrote this week about the recent eye opening SlashNext State of Phishing report. " SlashNext analyzed billions of link-based URLs, attachments and natural language messages in email, mobile and browser channels over six months in 2022 and found more than 255 million attacks —a 61% increase in the rate of phishing attacks compared to 2021.

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BlackByte ransomware group hit Asahi Group Holdings, a precision metal manufacturing and metal solution provider

Security Affairs

The BlackByte ransomware group claims to have compromised Asahi Group Holdings, a precision metal manufacturing and metal solution provider. Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. is a precision metal manufacturing and metal solution provider, for more than 40 years, the company has been delivering end-to-end services in the industries of precision metals and thin-film coatings with different teams of experts.

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Exploring Consumer Trust in a Digital World

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Exploring Consumer Trust in a Digital World. sparsh. Mon, 10/31/2022 - 06:06. What is your first response when you hear about the latest security breach by a company? If you are like most people, you’ve probably become quite desensitized – possibly unconcerned – by these security lapses. However, there is no doubt that these events have eroded consumer confidence.

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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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Air New Zealand warns of an ongoing credential stuffing attack

Security Affairs

Air New Zealand suffered a security breach, multiple customers have been locked out of their accounts after the incident. Air New Zealand suffered a security breach, threat actors attempted to access customers’ accounts by carrying out credential-stuffing attacks. What is credential stuffing ? “ Credential stuffing is a type of attack in which hackers use automation and lists of compromised usernames and passwords to defeat authentication and authorization mechanisms, with the end goal of

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German BKA arrested the alleged operator of Deutschland im Deep Web darknet market

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German police arrested a student that is suspected of being the administrator of ‘Deutschland im Deep Web’ (DiDW) darknet marketplace. Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has arrested a student (22) in Bavaria, who is suspected of being the administrator of ‘Deutschland im Deep Web’ (DiDW) darknet marketplace.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 391

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. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Twilio discloses another security incident that took place in June A massive cyberattack hit Slovak and Polish Parliaments How will Twitter change under Elon Musk?