Sat.Aug 31, 2019

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FIN6 recently expanded operations to target eCommerce sites

Security Affairs

The financially-motivated hacking group FIN6 is switching tactics, passing from PoS attacks to the hack of e-commerce websites. According to researchers at IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS), the financially-motivated hacking group FIN6 is switching tactics, passing from PoS attacks to the hack of e-commerce websites. FIN6 group has been active since 2015, past attacks were focused on point-of-sale (POS) machines used by retailers and companies in the hospitality sect

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Suppression and secrecy: how Australia's government put a boot on journalism's throat | Richard Ackland

The Guardian Data Protection

News publishers find it less risky, and maybe more profitable, if stories about abuse of power are shunted in favour of trivia News organisations have been slow to respond to the tide of legislation that progressively and surely threatens their ability to report the affairs of state. Indeed, some media outlets have a history of cheering on the rampant growth of national security laws, as though the mantra of government was more important than their ability to unearth the truth.

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Twitter account of Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO and co-founder, has been hacked

Security Affairs

Hackers compromised the Twitter account of Jack Dorsey, CEO at Twitter, and published and retweeted offensive and racist messages. No one is secure online, news of the day is that hackers compromised the Twitter account of Jack Dorsey, CEO at Twitter and co-founder, and published and retweeted offensive and racist tweets. The hack tool place yesterday, the company quickly removed any tweet and retweet made by the attackers.

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Google Discovers Massive iPhone Hack

Adam Levin

Researchers at Google announced the discovery of a hacking campaign that used hacked websites to deliver malware to iPhones. Project Zero, Google’s security research team, discovered fourteen previously unknown vulnerabilities, called zero day exploits, that were capable of compromising iPhones. Further research revealed a small collection of hacked websites capable of delivering malware to iPhone users visiting those sites.

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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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ARES ADB IOT Botnet targets Android Set Top Boxes (STB) and TVs

Security Affairs

Researchers from WootCloud Labs have uncovered a new IoT botnet named Ares that is targeting Android-based devices. Experts from WootCloud Labs have spotted a new IoT botnet tracked as Ares that is targeting Android-based devices that have a debug port exposed online. Experts noticed that most of the devices targeted by the bot are Android set-top boxes manufactured by HiSilicon , Cubetek , and QezyMedia. “During our research, WootCloud Labs has discovered the Ares ADB botnet targeting And

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