Many brands of webcams, security cameras, pet and baby monitors, use a woefully insecure cloud-based remote control system that can allow hackers to take over devices by performing Internet scans, modifying the device ID parameter, and using a default password to gain control over the user’s equipment and its video stream.
Source: Someone Is Taking Over Insecure Cameras and Spying on Device Owners
The OpenBSD project announced today plans to disable support for Intel CPU hyper-threading due to security concerns regarding the theoretical threat of more “Spectre-class bugs.”
Source: OpenBSD Disables Intel CPU Hyper-Threading Due to Security Concerns
Eight months after a surge of complaints, Apple announced a repair program for its flawed MacBooks and MacBook Pros.
If you have a Pentium III, for example, you may no longer be able to install Win7 Monthly Rollups or Security-only patches, in spite of Microsoft’s promise to support you until January 2020. It’s all about SSE2 and some retroactively fudged documentation. Will anybody notice?
Source: Microsoft quietly cuts off Win7 support for older Intel computers
