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A recent survey of 2,205 regular users has proven once again that most people don't update router firmware, don't change default credentials, and don't generally know how to secure their devices. For the past two-three years, there has been a deluge of news articles and research papers detailing large botnets built by exploiting router vulnerabilities and by hijacking devices still running default login credentials. These are the two main methods exploited by attackers. View Full...

Less than 5% of worldwide websites use Flash, new information has revealed, with most websites favouring Javascript for running features. Flash is used most commonly on Google websites, although there are some others, such as 6rrb.net, Monabrat.org and Intourist, also using it. Recently, Slate.com and Wappalyzer.com have started using the tech, according to technology usage survey site W3Techs, which seems a rather counterintuitive move as pretty much every other website has stopped using it. View Full...

LocalBlox, a company that scrapes data from public web profiles, has left the details of over 48 million users on a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

As if trying to navigate your online privacy wasn’t complicated enough, it turns out the adblocker you installed on your browser may actually be malware. Andrey Meshkov, the cofounder of ad-blocker AdGuard, recently got curious about the number of knock-off ad blocking extensions available for Google’s popular browser Chrome. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Motherboard

A number of TalkTalk’s broadband ISP customers in the UK have raised concerns after the provider sent them an alarmist warning email, which without providing any useful details claimed that they “may have downloaded a virus on one or more of your devices” (phishing emails adopt a similar approach). View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IS Preview

A network of Russian trolls is behind a new disinformation campaign about who was responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria and Salisbury, a government source has said. Social media bots are said to be responsible for a 4,000 percent increase in the spread of ‘lies and disinformation’ according to Whitehall research made public for the first time. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ITV

Federal agencies have built hundreds of mobile apps during the past decade, ranging from useful to educational to um, this. Many of those apps weren’t built with security in mind, however, and even apps that were built securely half a decade ago may now be riddled with unpatched vulnerabilities if no one’s been actively maintaining them. That means there’s a real danger that an app the government built to serve the public could now be serving up malware that will compromise users’ personal...

The Cybersecurity Tech Accord is a “watershed agreement” signed by 34 tech companies: ABB, Arm, Avast, Bitdefender, BT, CA Technologies, Cisco, Cloudflare, DataStax, Dell, DocuSign, Facebook, Fastly, FireEye, F-Secure, GitHub, Guardtime, HP Inc., HPE, Intuit, Juniper Networks, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Nielsen, Nokia, Oracle, RSA, SAP, Stripe, Symantec, Telefonica, Tenable, Trend Micro, and VMware. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: pymnts.com

In March 2018, Google added optional G Suite Gmail safety settings that affect how the system handles potentially problematic attachments, links, and external images, as well as how it processes unauthenticated or spoofed messages. Google always guards against malware in messages, however these settings offer additional protection. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tech Republic

In March 2018, Google added optional G Suite Gmail safety settings that affect how the system handles potentially problematic attachments, links, and external images, as well as how it processes unauthenticated or spoofed messages. Google always guards against malware in messages, however these settings offer additional protection. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tech Republic