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Threat actors target K-12 distance learning education, CISA and FBI warn

Security Affairs

The US Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency and the FBI warned about the increase in ransomware attacks targeting the US K-12 educational sector. The US CISA and the FBI warned about the increase in ransomware attacks targeting the US K-12 educational sector aimed at data theft and disruption of distance learning services.

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Hundreds of millions Of Dell PCs affected by CVE-2021-21551 flaws

Security Affairs

American multinational computer technology giant Dell addresses a 12-year-old driver flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-21551 , impacting millions of computers. Hundreds of millions of Dell computers worldwide are affected by a 12-year-old vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21551, that affects Dell DBUtil driver.

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The “P” in Telegram stands for Privacy

Security Affairs

211334) Stable) which stores the local copy of received message (audio/video) on a custom path even after those messages are deleted/disappeared from the secret chat. In the video proof-of-concept the user receives a self-destructed message in the secret chat option, which gets stored even after the message is self-destructed. .

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Another 0-Day Looms for Many Western Digital Users

Krebs on Security

Nevertheless, in February 2021, the duo published this detailed YouTube video from February , which documents how they discovered a chain of weaknesses that allows an attacker to remotely update a vulnerable device’s firmware with a malicious backdoor — using a low-privileged user account that has a blank password.

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China Issues Provisions on the “Scope of Necessary Personal Information Required for Common Types of Mobile Internet Applications”

Hunton Privacy

On March 12, 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China released Provisions on the “Scope of Necessary Personal Information Required for Common Types of Mobile Internet Applications” (the “Provisions”) (available here in Chinese ). The Provisions will become effective beginning May 1, 2021.

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Weekly Update 269

Troy Hunt

The video is an hour and 35 mins today, I suspect in part because I've done it on a Saturday morning with a bit more time to spare and, well, there was just a lot of stuff happening. Where does the time go? I did make up for working on a Saturday by then heading straight down to the beach and it was perfect!

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Don’t Let Zombie Zoom Links Drag You Down

Krebs on Security

Many organizations — including quite a few Fortune 500 firms — have exposed web links that allow anyone to initiate a Zoom video conference meeting as a valid employee. And to illustrate the persistence of some of these Zoom links, Archive.org says several of the links were first created as far back as 2020 and 2021.