Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

I feel like perfect audio remains an unsolved problem for me. Somehow, a low "hiss" has slipped in over the last couple of weeks and messing around trying to solve it before recording this video only served to leave me without any audio at all on the first attempt, and the status quo remaining on the second attempt. And I still can't use my Apollo Twin DAC as an input device almost a year on from when I bought it.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

US CISA ordered federal agencies to patch their systems against actively exploited CVE-2022-21882 Windows flaw. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to address their systems against an actively exploited Windows vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-21882. “CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog , based on evidence that threat actors are actively exploiting the vulnerabilities listed in the table

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

With KP Snacks the latest cyber-attack victim, firms must learn to defend themselves against a mounting menace The January snow lay thick on the Moscow ground, as masked officers of the FSB – Russia’s fearsome security agency – prepared to smash down the doors at one of 25 addresses they would raid that day. Their target was REvil, a shadowy conclave of hackers that claimed to have stolen more than $100m (£74m) a year through “ransomware” attacks, before suddenly disappearing.

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Ransomware Security Privacy 81

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The FBI released a flash alert containing technical details associated with the LockBit ransomware operation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a flash alert containing technical details and indicators of compromise associated with LockBit ransomware operations. The LockBit ransomware gang has been active since September 2019, in June 2021 the group announced the LockBit 2.0 RaaS.

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Ransomware Encryption Passwords Communications 90

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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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Plus: News Corp gets hacked, UK snacks ransomware, and more of the week's top security news.

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Ransomware Security 93