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A backdoor found in firmware used in several D-Link routers could allow an attacker to change a device’s settings, a serious security problem that could be used for surveillance.
Craig Heffner, a vulnerability researcher with Tactical Network Solutions who specializes in wireless and embedded systems, found the vulnerability.
Read the full article at Network World
The Google domain for Malaysia was hijacked on October 10th, redirecting visitors to a page that said a group called Madleets from Pakistan had performed the attack.
MYNIC, the company that administers the country TLD for Malaysia, confirmed the attack in a statement issued Friday morning, saying that its internal incident response team had resolved the problem within a short time of learning of the attack.
Read the full article at Threat Post
Sharing a folder or file with something like Dropbox is easy, but you have to actually have a Dropbox account to do it. OneTimeBox does the same thing, but you don’t need an account and anyone can add files to the folder.
If you’ve ever tried to produce a "designed" document such as an advert, flyer, invitation, brochure and so on, you probably looked at desktop publishing packages and then gave up. They’re all either incredibly complicated or incredibly expensive. Or both, of course.
Which is why the launch of LucidPress, which is neither complex nor expensive, is worth mentioning. In fact it couldn’t be simpler to use, and it’s free.
Read more at Lucidpress
If you’re in the market for a new tablet, you have a lot of information to sift through. Benchmarks, specs, software versions, supported apps, there’s a ton of data. TabletRocket makes it a little easier by putting any two tablets side-by-side so you can compare them directly.
Examining data from one million devices, Fiberlink, a mobile management firm, examined the often forgotten part of mobility in the workforce — laptops. While IT and security vendors focus on Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS, tablets, and smartphones, Lenovo’s ThinkPad and Dell’s Latitude chug along, remaining a stable fixture in the workplace. According to Fiberlink, almost 50 percent of the laptops observed in their study are running Windows XP.
Read the full article at Network World
When Microsoft Security Essentials started falling behind in effectiveness tests, LifeHacker stopped recommending it.
Microsoft is now officially saying that they’ve shifted their focus and establishing MSE as a "baseline."
Adobe announced it has been breached and attackers may have accessed source code for a number of products, and stolen 2.9 million customer records.
Read the full article at Threat Post
It’s no secret, or at least not anymore: people generally do not use any sort of anti-virus or malware protection on their mobile device. Recent IDC research has indicated that only 5 percent of all smartphones and tablets have some sort of security tools installed on them, raising the question of whether or not that kind of software is even necessary.
Read this interesting article at Network World
While you can make use of specialized system admin tools to find out which devices have been connected to a local area network in the past, it is not really something that is really something that you may want to explore if you need to run a quick check. That’s what NetworkConnectLog by Nirsoft has been created for. It is a lightweight portable networking tool that scans the local area network for you in intervals to record any device connections to its log.
Read the full article at Ghacks