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Source: Even After Microsoft’s Fix, Windows 10’s 1809 Update Is Still Botching File Operations

A government system used by insurance agents and brokers to help customers sign up for healthcare plans was breached, allowing hackers to siphon off sensitive and personal data on 75,000 people. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services confirmed the breach in a late Friday announcement, but revealed few details about the contents of the […] Source: Hackers breach Healthcare.gov system, taking files on 75,000 people

A decade ago, it was almost inconceivable that nearly every household item could be hooked up to the internet. These days, it’s near impossible to avoid a non-smart home gadget, and they’re vacuuming up a ton of new data that we’d never normally think about. Thermostats know the temperature of your house, and smart cameras […] Source: Smart home tech makers don’t want to say if the feds come for your data

  A fix is out but the plugin is used in hundreds, if not thousands, of projects. Patching will take ages! Source: Zero-day in popular jQuery plugin actively exploited for at least three years | ZDNet

Security researchers have found flaws in four popular connected storage drives that they say could let hackers access a user’s private and sensitive data. The researchers Paulos Yibelo and Daniel Eshetu said the software running on three of the devices they tested — NetGear Stora, Seagate Home and Medion LifeCloud — can allow an attacker to […] Source: Buggy software in popular connected storage drives can let hackers read private data