A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Starting off this week, something that is becoming a regular occurrence; researchers against vs vendor battles. This one in particular have flavours of MongoDB about it, and they eventually backed down and couldn’t depend on the users doing the right thing. This vendor may also have to take that route eventually:

While we all know about news of world events being a lure for phishing the inattentive public, on the other side of the coin, various interested parties also want to inside news but decide to go for the direct option:

Seeing its a ‘thing’ now in this slot to have a bash at IoT, what about this one? I just love the thought of this…

 

Other fun news:

Weekly Cyber Security News 20/07/2018
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