Netgear have issued a security advisory – you should check your Netgear equipment. Impacted equipment should be patched as soon as possible: Security Advisory for Pre-Authentication Buffer Overflow on Some Routers, PSV-2019-0208 | Answer | NETGEAR Support
TikTok banned from US Government managed phones
Due to security concerns with the Chinese owned app, the United States Government has banned it from any device it manages: US House boots TikTok from government phones • The Register
Do you want to buy a Twitter account?
It appears that information relating to hundreds of millions of Twitter accounts is available for sale: Stolen info on 400m+ Twitter accounts supposedly up for sale • The Register But who speaks for Twitter? Don’t try and question Twitter about this alleged leak or try to follow what Twitter publicly …
Here is a cautionary story if you do not patch and are Albanian
Bruce Schneier has this article about Albanian prosecutors holding IT admins, who failed to patch and update systems, responsible for cyber attacks on Albania: Arresting IT Administrators – Schneier on Security
Do you use a WordPress Gift Card Plug-in? If so it s back to work for you!
Here is a flaw in the YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Premium plug-in which needs fixing: Hackers exploit bug in WordPress gift card plugin with 50K installs (bleepingcomputer.com) Get it fixed – if that means waking up your web designers to check if they have already fixed it, then do it. …
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