Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


Windows 10 security can be bypassed by Settings page weakness

The file type used by Windows 10’s settings page can be used to trick Windows into running files it’s supposed to block.


Here are the 4 best ways to train employees for better cybersecurity

87% of companies experienced an email-based threat in the past year, while 35% have been hit by ransomware, according to a Barracuda report.


FBI arrests 74 in global Business Email Compromise takedown

After years of laughing in the face of victims BEC scammers have taken one on the chin.


Smart TVs are spying on you through your phone

IoT devices like smart TVs are frighteningly insecure.  Now they spy on us too.  Smart TVs in millions of homes are using other devices on the same network in order to snitch on everything you watch and everywhere you go, in the name of marketing.  Just a matter of time before this information is stolen by cyber-thieves.


 

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