Hello and welcome to the Thursday, May 9, 2024 edition of the Sansonet Storm Center's Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Ulrich, and today I'm recording from San Diego, California.

Xavier today posted a diary with instructions to analyze disks from a Synology network accessible storage system.

There are a number of reasons why you may want to do so.

For example, of course, forensic investigation of a compromised device,

or you just try to recover data from disks after other parts of the device

like the motherboard, for example, failed.

This isn't all that difficult if you have a Linux machine to connect the drives to.

Xavier walks you through enabling software, rate, and logical volumes to be able to mount the devices to a Linux system.

Now, some of these instructions may very well work for other manufacturers' devices today.

All kind of work similar. Some of them may have slightly different rate configuration,

so you may have to experiment with this a little bit.

And today, of course, we had our annual panel at RSA.

We now had a slightly different set of speakers this time.

We had, for the first time, Terence Williams.

Terence Williams talked about some of the threats AI poses to election security in particular to

influencing social medias and the like. So that's what Terence talked about. Stephen Sims

talked about, well, some of the limitations, but also how AI may help attackers write exploits faster. He debunked some of the claims that have

recently been made that well, it turned out not to be quite true. Also talked a little bit about

how defenders may be able to use similar techniques to find vulnerabilities faster and with

that also fix them faster. Heather Barnhart had a

pretty interesting but also disturbing topic and that's sex-stortion in particular targeting teens.

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