D-Link won’t patch a critical unauthenticated command-injection vulnerability in its routers that could allow an attacker to remotely take over the devices and execute code. Threatpost reports: The vulnerability (CVE-2019-16920) exists in the latest firmware for the DIR-655, DIR-866L, DIR-652 and DHP-1565 products, which are Wi-Fi routers for the home market. D-Link last week told…

James Peebles will get half the prize, whilst Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz share a quarter Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of how the early universe evolved after the Big Bang and finding the first exoplanet orbiting a faraway star.… …read more Source:: Register

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Ponemon survey data shows that only a third of IT staff say they take a security-first approach to data storage in the cloud. …read more Source:: Threatpost

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. government widened its trade blacklist to include some of China’s top artificial intelligence startups, punishing Beijing for its treatment of Muslim minorities and ratcheting up tensions ahead of high-level trade talks in Washington this week. The decision, which drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing, targets…

You might have given your phone number to Twitter for two-factor authentication. The company said that number could have been used for advertising. …read more Source:: CNet

Is the electric automaker ready to reinvent a common luxury? …read more Source:: CNet

Microsoft has released fixes for nine critical and 49 important vulnerabilities as part of Patch Tuesday. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Nearly all admin warnings are false alarms, says Kaspersky, and that’s not a bad thing Just one per cent of all Indicator of Attack (IOA) warnings are actually caused by network attacks.… …read more Source:: Register

The two companies aim to advance space tourism. …read more Source:: CNet