Data Breach Today
MARCH 13, 2021
Attackers Deploy NanoCore Malware as Part of the Campaign A new malware spam email campaign is delivering the NanoCore remote access Trojan as a malicious Adobe icon to infect its victims, a new report by security firm Trustwave finds. The malware is designed to steal information from PCs such as passwords and emails.
Security Affairs
MARCH 13, 2021
The fire at the OVH datacenter in Strasbourg also impacted the command and control infrastructure used by several nation-state APT groups and cybercrime gangs. OVH, one of the largest hosting providers in the world, has suffered this week a terrible fire that destroyed its data centers located in Strasbourg. The French plant in Strasbourg includes 4 data centers, SBG1, SBG2, SBG3, and SBG4 that were shut down due to the incident, and the fire started in SBG2 one.
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Hunton Privacy
MARCH 13, 2021
On March 12, 2021, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published its Guidelines 01/2021 on Virtual Voice Assistants for consultation (the “Guidelines”). Virtual voice assistants (“VVAs”) understand and execute voice commands or coordinate with other IT systems. These tools are available on most smartphones and other devices and collect significant amounts of personal data, such as through user commands.
Security Affairs
MARCH 13, 2021
Three 15-year-old flaws in Linux kernel could be exploited by local attackers with basic user privileges to gain root privileges on vulnerable Linux systems. GRIMM researchers found three vulnerabilities in the SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) component of the Linux kernel, the issues could be exploited by local attackers with basic user privileges to gain root privileges on unpatched Linux systems.
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.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 13, 2021
The popular security service is severely limiting its free tier starting March 16. If you’d like to move your passwords to another manager, here’s how.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 13, 2021
Plus: A Molson-Coors hack, Github controversy, and more of the week's top security news.
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