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Merry Christmas, Happy New Year everyone!

 

May your holidays be filled with joy, love and family. From Michael, James and myself we wish you the very best and a healthy, prosperous and fulfilling 2017.

We will be back in 2017 with another great DtSR Episode... but before we go - here's one last NewsCast for 2016.

 

Yahoo - setting records again - biggest hack ever

• It happened again: Yahoo says 1 billion user accounts stolen in what could be biggest hack ever
• 1 billion accounts.. But 1 billion users? Probably not
• It was 2013… does it even matter?
• Bigger issue - secret questions/answers can't be changed easily (if you're honest, which you shouldn't be)
• What about the integrity of the Yahoo! brand?

Netgear Routers - Simple fix, Difficult fix

• As with most devices that weren’t designed to be updated…
• The software fix (firmware) is quite easy according to Netgear
• Problem is … how to get users to install it
• http://kb.netgear.com/000036386/CVE-2016-582384

Microsoft Patches dangerous backdoor in skype for Mac OSX

• Issue on Mac only
• Use of an unused or outdated API that provided access
• http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/microsoft-patches-dangerous-backdoor-in-skype-for-mac-os-x-/d/d-id/1327712

Flash being relegated by MS’s Edge browser… is it time?

• So many vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash, exploitable
• Chrome already has click-to-run
• Next version of Edge wil

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