Day: January 14, 2020

Remote Access Exploit Affects 200 Million Cable Modems

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Barr Pushes Apple For Help To Unlock Gunman’s Phone

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


CES Surveillance Hype Worries Privacy Advocates

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Russians Hack Energy Company That Played Major Role In Trump Ukraine Scandal

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Processor Vulnerabilites Put Virtual Workloads at Risk

Meltdown, Spectre exploits will likely lead to customers making tradeoffs between performance and security of applications, especially virtual and cloud-based apps …read more Source:: DarkReading


Go on, eat your fibre, new build contractors. It’s free! OpenReach lowers limit for free FTTP connections

You may not have plumbing to the premises, but by god you’ll have fibre Good news for much-maligned new-build contractors in the UK – equally maligned UK broadband infrastructure provider OpenReach today says it will drop the threshold for installing gigabit-capable fibre-to-the-premises connections to new build developments — from 30 houses to just 20.… …read…


Boeing Employees Mocked Lion Air Staff For Seeking 737 Max Training, Calling Them ‘Idiots.’ A Year Later 189 People Died When One of Their Jets Crashed

Indonesia’s Lion Air considered putting its pilots through simulator training before flying the Boeing 737 Max but abandoned the idea after the planemaker convinced them in 2017 it was unnecessary, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter and internal company communications. From the report: The next year, 189 people died when a Lion…


Industrial Control System Features at Risk

How some ICS product functions can be weaponized by altering their configurations. …read more Source:: DarkReading


How to Keep Security on Life Support After Software End-of-Life

It’s the end of support this week for Windows 7 and Server 2008. But what if you truly can’t migrate off software, even after security updates stop coming? …read more Source:: DarkReading


This Apple Watch copycat is surprisingly good for just $22.54 – CNET

Notifications, fitness tracking, heart-rate monitoring and more, all for an impossibly low price. …read more Source:: CNet