DtSR Episode 225 - NewsCast for December 20th 2016

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Merry Christmas, Happy New Year everyone!

May your holidays be filled with joy, love and family. From Michael, James and myself we wish you the very best and a healthy, prosperous and fulfilling 2017.

We will be back in 2017 with another great DtSR Episode... but before we go - here's one last NewsCast for 2016.

Yahoo - setting records again - biggest hack ever

It happened again: Yahoo says 1 billion user accounts stolen in what could be biggest hack ever
1 billion accounts.. But 1 billion users? Probably not
It was 2013… does it even matter?
Bigger issue - secret questions/answers can't be changed easily (if you're honest, which you shouldn't be)
What about the integrity of the Yahoo! brand?

Netgear Routers - Simple fix, Difficult fix

As with most devices that weren’t designed to be updated…
The software fix (firmware) is quite easy according to Netgear
Problem is … how to get users to install it
http://kb.netgear.com/000036386/CVE-2016-582384

Microsoft Patches dangerous backdoor in skype for Mac OSX

Issue on Mac only
Use of an unused or outdated API that provided access
http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/microsoft-patches-dangerous-backdoor-in-skype-for-mac-os-x-/d/d-id/1327712

Flash being relegated by MS’s Edge browser… is it time?

So many vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash, exploitable
Chrome already has click-to-run
Next version of Edge will do click-to-run
Should we just nuke Flash? Isn’t HTML5 prime-time already?
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/flash-will-become-click-to-run-in-edge-chrome-in-2017/

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