Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2019

For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published in 2018 that unmasked the creators of Coinhive , a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was massively abused by cybercriminals. Krebs is translated as “cancer” in German.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you! Federal Emergency Management Agencys (FEMA) data leak exposes data of 2.3M survivors. Malware Static Analysis. Microsoft Defender APT now protects also macOS. WordPress Social Warfare plugin zero-day exploited in attacks.

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Elie

MARCH 31, 2019

Password checkup allows users to check, in a privacy-preserving manner, whether their username and password matches one of the more than 4B+ credentials exposed by third-party data breaches of which Google is aware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

Harold Thomas Martin III, a 54-year-old Navy veteran from Glen Burnie and former NSA Contractor pleads guilty to 20-Year-Long theft of classified data. The former National Security Agency contractor stole a huge quantity of sensitive data from the agency and then stored it at his home and car for over two decades. The man was arrested by the FBI in August 2016 , the US DoJ charged Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material.

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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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Archives Blogs

MARCH 31, 2019

Every so often there seems to be a rush of interest in bringing back old Amherst traditions. Perhaps alumni wish that students of today could experience gathering as a class to sing at the senior fence. Or students wonder if they are missing out on quirky old traditions that could build school spirit. Well, today I’d like to share with you some of the lesser known student traditions and activities from the past, all candidates for reintroduction into the Amherst traditions of today!

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 31, 2019

I've been interested in the role and trusted context features of Db2 for z/OS for a long time (I posted a two-part blog entry on the topic back in 2011). Theory is nice, but what about practice? Recently, I had an opportunity to assist a DBA in implementing implicit trusted connection functionality in his Db2 for z/OS environment (more on the implicit part in a moment).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

Experts at Skylight Cyber released the list of 600 MAC addresses used threat actors behind Operation ShadowHammer to target ASUS customers. Skylight Cyber released the list of 583 MAC addresses used threat actors behind Operation ShadowHammer to target ASUS customers. Over 1 million ASUS users may have been impacted by a supply chain attack that leveraged the ASUS Live Update utility to inject a backdoor in ASUS systems.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 31, 2019

From last week's update in Seattle to home to Sydney to back home and a late update (again). But regardless, I'm committed to continuing the cadence of doing these updates each week and 132 of them in, I'm yet to miss a week. This week it's a combination of more of the same (travel, events and data breaches), as well as more thoughts on the future of HIBP and Cloudflare's role when it comes to nasty content online.

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Reltio

MARCH 31, 2019

Ankur Gupta, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Reltio. The third Modern Data Management annual summit (#DataDriven19) had great minds sharing their MDM success stories and assessing where MDM is headed. Modern enterprises put data at the heart of every decision to stay competitive. Nice line. But that’s easier said than done. Understanding data to make it work is perhaps the biggest challenge enterprises face today.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

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