Threatpost

JANUARY 3, 2021

Insider threats are redefined in 2021, the work-from-home trend will continue define the threat landscape and mobile endpoints become the attack vector of choice, according 2021 forecasts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

Data from major cyber security firms revealed that tens of billion records have been exposed in data breaches exposed in 2020. Below a list of top incidents: There were a number of major data breaches that took place in 2020, in many cases stolen records flooded the cybercrime underground and were used credential stuffing attacks. Below the list of top data breaches that took place in the last 12 months: May 2020 – CAM4 adult cam site leaked 11B database records including emails, private c

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 3, 2021

The post How to Decode Privacy Policies: A Primer appeared first on MediaPRO.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

NCA arrested 21 people in the UK as part of an operation targeting customers of WeLeakInfo service that advertised stolen personal credentials. 21 people have been arrested in the UK as part of an operation against customers of the WeLeakInfo[.]com service that had been previously selling access to data from data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com was a data breach notification service that was allowing its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches.

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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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Information Matters

JANUARY 3, 2021

The UK/EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement announced on 24 December has some limited provisions for the transfer of personal data between EU member states and the UK. From 1 January Read more. The post Personal data / Brexit agreement – UK has “third country” status for up to 6 months appeared first on Information Matters - Data-Driven Innovation in the UK.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 3, 2021

As the expression goes, no one cares about backups, they care about restores. Do yours work? Some lessons learned over the last few days: Apple has disabled single user mode as of Mojave, and many recovery options are not available if you use a firmware password. Do not forget that availability is a security property. Using a pi.hole made getting to Apple’s network Recovery Installer difficult.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

This post includes the details of the COVID-19 themed attacks launched from December 19, 2020– January 02, 2021. 25 December, 2020 – North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets the COVID-19 research. The North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has recently launched cyberattacks against at least two organizations involved in COVID19 research. 30 December, 2020 – US Treasury warns of ransomware attacks on COVID19 vaccine research.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

During a routine Dark web monitoring, the Research team at Cyble found threat actors selling 200 million+ Records of Chinese Citizens. During a routine Dark web monitoring, the Research team at Cyble found multiple posts where threat actors are offering for sale alleged data leaks related to Chinese citizens. Data might have been stolen from multiple popular Chinese services, including Gongan County, Weibo, and QQ.

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