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Millions of broadband users could be putting themselves at risk by not paying more attention to their routers. Yes, those flashing black boxes that are often stuffed behind the TV could give hackers instant access to a host of personal data including the websites being visiting or even allow them to flood devices with nasty […] ....
Uber has finally fixed a vulnerability that allowed bad actors to send emails from Uber’s official email account, but the fix comes seven years after the bug was first reported. Over the years, several researchers have reported the easy-to-exploit vulnerability to Uber – one as early as 2015 – but the rideshare company did not patch the problem until this week. “Uber has a bug bounty program with 1,790 reports resolved,” commented Luis Corrons, Avast Security Evangelist, “so this is not a case of the company not taking care of security, but a human mistake handling the reports of this specific bug. In any case, please remember never to insert any kind of personal data in any link that comes from an email.” It’s not known if the bug was ever exploited, but anyone who has shared personal information in response to an email from Uber over the past seven years is well-advised to change their passwords. For more on this story, see Threatpost. ....
iTWire AMTSO elects new board AMTSO is the anti-malware testing standards organisation. Simon Edwards, CEO of security testing company SE Labs and a longtime AMTSO board member, is the board s new co-chairman, sharing the position with Luis Corrons, security evangelist at security and privacy vendor Avast. AMTSO says its board has a 50:50 share of tester and vendor members, to assure balanced contributions from both sides, to develop objective standards and best practices for anti-malware testing and assessment of other cybersecurity products. Ivanyuk represents the vendor side, and brings strategic product management and PR and marketing experience to AMTSO. Testing representative David Ellis has extensive experience in developing testing and validation metrics,. ....
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