threat updates
UK
Smart cameras and baby monitors
can be watched by criminals over
the Internet by default, security
chiefs have warned.
The National Cybersecurity Centre
(NCSC) is advising people to tweak
the settings after buying them. Easyto-guess
default passwords might let
a hacker secretly observe a home
through connected devices, it said.
GLOBAL
It has been reported that a huge proportion of Internetconnected
imaging devices at hospitals run outdated
operating systems.
Researchers found that 83% of these devices run on outdated
software that can’t be updated even when it contains known
vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit. The number increased
significantly from 2018, which coincides with Microsoft
ending support for Windows 7 earlier this year.
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