Yes, there are serious dangers posed by malevolent nation-states. But the hype is distracting us from the reality of the threats.

By Waqas

Security researchers at NetLab, a sub-division of the Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360, have discovered a new, wide-scale, and very active malware campaign that has managed to hijack more than 100,000 home routers between Sept 21 and 27. A majority of routers (almost 88%) are located in Brazil. The malware has been dubbed GhostDNS. Once […]

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Password-sharing persists, but at least multifactor authentication usage is up.

Using a cooling-off period for domain names can help catch those registered by known bad actors.

The update includes a security bypass bug that enables privilege escalation.

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Rated as high-risk vulnerabilities, these privilege-escalation flaws could allow an unauthenticated attacker to access protected content.