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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

Maintenance lacks the glamour of innovation—and is harder to measure Source: Repair is as important as innovation

Source: Researcher finds simple way of backdooring Windows PCs and nobody notices for ten months | ZDNet