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Emsisoft released a free decryptor for the Ims00rry ransomware

Security Affairs

Security experts at Emsisoft released a new decryptor, it could be used for free by victims of the Ims00rry ransomware to decrypt their files. Thanks to the experts at Emsisoft the victims of the Ims00rry ransomware can decrypt their files for free. The Ims00rry ransomware used AES-128 algorithm for the encryption process. Unlike most of the ransomware, Ims00rry and doesn’t append an extension to the filenames of the encrypted files.

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How To Clear Out Your Zombie Apps and Online Accounts

WIRED Threat Level

All those services you signed up for but forgot about? They're a security risk. Here's how to get rid of them.

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NCSC report warns of DNS Hijacking Attacks

Security Affairs

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a security advisory to warn organizations of DNS hijacking attacks and provided recommendations this type of attack. In response to the numerous DNS hijacking attacks the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert to warn organizations of this type of attack. “In January 2019 the NCSC published an alert to highlight a large-scale global campaign to hijack Domain Name Systems (DNS).” reads the security

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Threatlist: 68% of Overwhelmed IT Managers Can’t Keep Up with Cyberattacks

Threatpost

Most respondents in a recent survey say they're losing the battle despite having up-to-date protections in place.

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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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Apple temporarily blocked Walkie-Talkie App on Apple Watch due to a flaw

Security Affairs

A serious vulnerability in Walkie-Talkie App on Apple Watch forced the tech giant to disable the applications to avoid attackers spying on its users. Apple has temporarily disabled the Walkie-Talkie app on the Apple Watch due to a vulnerability that could be exploited to spy on users. The issue was reported to Apple via its report a vulnerability portal.

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SAP Patch Day – July 2019 addresses a critical flaw in Diagnostics Agent

Security Affairs

SAP released 11 Security Notes as part of the Patch Day – July 2019, one of which was a Hot News Note addressing a critical flaw in Diagnostics Agent. This month SAP released 11 Security Notes as part of the Patch Day – July 2019. One of them is a Hot News Note that addresses a critical vulnerability in Diagnostics Agent tracked as CVE-2019-0330. The vulnerability is an OS command injection issue that could be exploited to fully compromise the SAP system, it received a CVSS score of 9.1.

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Books Worth Reading: Q2 2019 (Apollo Edition)

Adam Shostack

A Man on the Moon , Andrew Chaikin is probably the best of the general histories of the moon landings. Failure is not an Option , by Gene Kranz, who didn’t actually say that during Apollo 13. Marketing The Moon by David Scott and Richard Jurek. I was surprised what a good history this was, and how much it brought in the overall history of the program and put it in context.

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Will Libra force Congress to act on data protection?

Information Management Resources

Almost two years after the Equifax breach led to a congressional uproar but minimal policy change, the protracted fight to enact data security and privacy reform has a new bogeyman.

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Thinking Like a Millennial: How Millennials are Changing Discovery, Part Three

eDiscovery Daily

Editor’s Note: Tom O’Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker, and writer in the field of computerized litigation support systems. He has also been a great addition to our webinar program, participating with me on several recent webinars. Tom has also written several terrific informational overview series for CloudNine, including his most recent one, Biggest eDiscovery Challenges Facing Plaintiff’s Attorneys , which we covered as part of a webcast on June 26.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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Advisors’ new toolkit: Biometrics, risk algorithms and machine learning

Information Management Resources

Hyper-personalization delivered via improved technology is critical for client relations, a new report says.

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