UK Conservative Party lets secure cert expire
VTech to Pay $650K to Settle Kids’ Privacy Case
Digital toymaker was also accused by FTC of failing to properly secure children’s data
WPA3 Set to Secure Public Wi-Fi Networks in 2018
New protocol will land later this year
Hard-Coded Backdoor in My Cloud Devices Offers Attackers Access to Personal Photos, Videos
Threat actors could gain control over the device, exfiltrate information and spread malware.
Google Drive Exploited to Download Malware Directly from URL
Proofpoint uncovered the vulnerability and created a proof of concept exploit for the issue, which exists in the Google Apps Script.
Monero Crypto-Mining Invades BlackBerry Mobile Site
Coinhive weighed in on the Reddit thread saying that the site appears to have been surreptitiously infected.
UK Companies Set to Splurge on Cyber-Risk Mitigation
ICSA report claims cyber remains top risk for boardrooms in 2018
Attackers Target Winter Olympics with Weaponized Word Doc
New steganography tool used to obfuscate attack
UK Firms Deluged with Cyber-Attacks in 2017
ISP spots 633 daily attempts per business to breach the corporate firewall
Update your WiKID servers for Spectre and Meltdown
Since basically every computer is affected by these bugs, your WiKID server is too. You will need to run ‘yum update’ to get the latest kernel patches. (And it’s a great idea to do this regularly.) Reboot and you should have the fix.
You can run:
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