Vulnerabilities in Insulin Pumps Can Lead to Overdose
Researchers are warning patients who use insulin pumps made by Johnson & Johnson this week that vulnerabilities in the devices could be exploited to trigger an overdose.
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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security" - Benjamin Franklin
Apple To Block WoSign Intermediate Certificates
Apple said over the weekend it would soon distrust certificates issued by WoSign’s Free SSL Certificate G2 intermediate CA on macOS.
Researchers Break MarsJoke Ransomware Encryption
Victims infected with the MarsJoke ransomware can now decrypt their files; researchers cracked the encryption in the CTB-Locker lookalike last week.
The latest on the Yahoo breach, Germany’s problem with WhatsApp-Facebook, Facebook’s osquery tool for Windows, and Zerodium’s $1.5M iOS bounty are all discussed.
A researcher who found a slew of vulnerabilities in a popular router says it’s so hopelessly broken that consumers who own them should throw them away.
The Internet Systems Consortium patched the BIND domain name system this week, addressing what it calls a critical error condition in the software.
A German privacy regulator issued an order this week prohibiting Facebook to stop collecting user data on German WhatsApp users.
Facebook finished porting its SQL-powered detection tool, osquery, to Windows this week.
Developers behind the malicious downloader Hancitor have bolstered the malware again, this time with new delivery approaches that make it more difficult to detect.
The massive Yahoo breach, this week’s Security of Things Forum, Mamba ransomware, and Google Allo are discussed.
