Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Breach Occurred After System Admin Granted Unauthorized Access Russian-Dutch multinational eCommerce company Yandex sustained a data breach in which 4,887 customer accounts were compromised after an unidentified employee with systems admin privileges gave unauthorized access to attackers.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. It’s been going on since at least 2008. The US government has known about it for almost as long, and has tried to keep the attack secret: China’s exploitation of products made by Supermicro, as the U.S. company is known, has been under federal scrutiny for much of the past decade, according to 14 former law enforcement and intelligence officials familiar with the m

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

SentinelOne and Tenable Also Involved in Notable Acquisitions Security firms Herjavec Group, SentinelOne and Tenable were all involved in merger and acquisition activity this past week, continuing this latest consolidation wave within the cybersecurity industry.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Court documents obtained by Forbes revealed that the FBI may have a tool that allows accessing private Signal messages on iPhones. Court documents related to a recent gun-trafficking case in New York and obtained by Forbes revealed that the FBI may have a tool to access private Signal messages. The documents revealed that encrypted messages can be intercepted from iPhone devices when they are in “partial AFU (after first unlock)” mode. “The clues came via Seamus Hughes at the Program

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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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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week has seen a lot of my time go on an all-new project. One I'm really excited about and is completely different to everything I've done before; I expect I'll be able to talk about that in the coming weeks and it shouldn't be too much longer before it's something you can actually see firsthand. Stay tuned on that one ?? In the meantime, I'm throwing a heap more IP addresses into the house and building out my Prusa 3D printer at the same time which I'm really enjoying.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The “big hack” redux, riot planning on Facebook, and more of the week's top security news.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Personal and Corporate data is now regularly targeted and traded by unscrupulous actors, protect it with a proactive Cyber Defense solution. If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for them. If they are in superior strength, evade them. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that they may grow arrogant.

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