Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Vulnerabilities in the Western Digital SanDisk SecureAccess can be exploited to access user data through brute force and dictionary attacks. Western Digital has released updates for its SanDisk SecureAccess software to fix multiple vulnerabilities that can be exploited to access user data by carrying out brute force and dictionary attacks. The SanDisk SecureAccess software, now rebranded SanDisk PrivateAccess, allows storing and protecting critical and sensitive files on SanDisk USB flash drives

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Geez, I'm a bit orange today! I think mucking around with the (excepti0nally cool!) moon lamp towards the beginning of this video threw the colours off a bit. In the past, I'd turn on the auto white balance lock and things would stay steady, but since I put up the Elgato key lamps and the colour has been so steady, I've kind of just let it go.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Cybereason researchers released a “vaccine” that mitigates the critical ‘Log4Shell’ Apache Log4j code execution vulnerability. Chinese security researcher p0rz9 publicly disclosed a Proof-of-concept exploit for a critical remote code execution zero-day vulnerability, tracked a CVE-2021-44228 ( aka Log4Shell ), in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Plus: Bluetooth security, a Brazil hack, and more of the week's top security news.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Accenture researchers detailed the activity of a new sophisticated cybercrime group, called Karakurt, behind recent cyberattacks. Accenture researchers detailed the activity of a sophisticated financially motivated threat actor called Karakurt. The activity of the group was first spotted in June 2021, but the group has been more active in Q3 2021. In June 2021 the gang registered the domains hosting its leak sites, karakurt[.]group and karakurt[.]tech, while in August the group registered a Twit

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