VPNFilter Malware Infects 500k Routers Including Linksys, MikroTik, NETGEAR
Researchers warn of malware infecting 500,000 popular routers in a campaign mostly targeting the Ukraine, but also 54 other countries.
Privacy
Comcast Patches Router Bug That Leaked Some Wi-Fi Passwords
A bug in Comcast’s activation website for its Xfinity routers leaked sensitive customer data.
TeenSafe Tracking App Exposes Thousands of Private Records
Records for a mobile app that parents can use to monitor what their kids are doing online has been exposed in the latest Amazon Web Services cloud misconfiguration.
The U.S. Senate gave the nod to restoring the 2015 Open Internet Order, putting net neutrality on the fast track to a House vote.
The flaws threaten to expose corporate communications in Outlook as well as the messages of at-risk users like political dissidents.
Florida-based phone maker BLU is facing an FTC complaint over allegations it shared detailed personal user data with a third-party firm that included full text messages, call logs and contact lists.
Secure-messaging firm Signal was told by Amazon not to use its AWS servers for domain-fronting, a technique used to enable communications in countries such as Egypt, Oman, Qatar and UAE where the service is banned.
Facebook hopes to improve data privacy with a new feature letting users flush their history so that it is cleared from their account.
Samples of North Korean antivirus software called SiliVaccine crib software code from a competitor and come loaded with malware and a backdoor.
The apps are deemed malicious by doing things such as capturing pictures and audio when the app is closed, or making an unusually large amount of network calls.
