The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Just like the best sourdough bread derives from a “mother” yeast that gets divided, passed around, and used over and over, open-source software applications get fashioned from a “mother” library of code created and passed around by developers. Related: Equifax hack highlights open source attack vectors. In today’s world, quick innovations are a necessity, and software developers would rather not lose valuable time reinventing the wheel.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The Wireshark team has addressed three serious vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to crash the analyzer. The Wireshark development team has fixed three serious flaws that could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to trigger a DoS condition in the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. The three vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2018-16056 , CVE-2018-16057 and CVE-2018-16058 affect respectively the Bluetooth Attribute Protocol (ATT

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IG Guru

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

AUGUST 27, 2018 08:48 PM ET The late senator pushed relentlessly for the government to develop a comprehensive cyber deterrence strategy. By Joseph Marks, Senior Correspondent Shortly before Gen. Keith Alexander’s April 2010 hearing to be the first chief of U.S. Cyber Command, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., approached the general with a question. During the 2008 […].

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new spam campaign leveraging the Loki Bot malware to target corporate mailboxes. The Loki Bot attacks started in July and aimed at stealing passwords from browsers, messaging applications, mail and FTP clients, and cryptocurrency wallets. Loki Bot operators employ various social engineering technique to trick victims into opening weaponized attachments that would deploy the Loki Bot stealer.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

A 20-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was indicted last week on federal hacking charges and for allegedly operating the “ Satori ” botnet, a malware strain unleashed last year that infected hundreds of thousands of wireless routers and other “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. This outcome is hardly surprising given that the accused’s alleged alter ego has been relentless in seeking media attention for this global crime machine.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you! · Personal details of 37,000 Eir customers exposed after the theft of a laptop. · USBHarpoon a look-like charging cable that can hack into your computer. · Android mobile devices from 11 vendors are expose

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

MagentoCore skimmer already infected 7,339 Magento stores, according to the Willem de Groot who uncovered the campaign, it is the most aggressive to date. The cybersecurity researcher Willem de Groot has uncovered a massive hacking campaign aimed at Magento stores. The hackers have already infected 7,339 Magento stores with a skimmer script, dubbed MagentoCore, that siphons payment card data from users who purchased on the sites.

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