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Mac and Windows users infected by software updates delivered over hacked ISP

reader comments 49 Hackers delivered malware to Windows and Mac users by compromising their Internet service provider and then tampering with software updates delivered over unsecure connections, researchers said. The attack, researchers from security firm Volexity said, worked by hacking routers or similar types of device infrastructure of an unnamed ISP. The attackers then used… Read More »

Gear from Netgear, Linksys, and 200 others has unpatched DNS poisoning flaw

Getty Images reader comments 37 with 29 posters participating Share this story Hardware and software makers are scrambling to determine if their wares suffer from a critical vulnerability recently discovered in third-party code libraries used by hundreds of vendors, including Netgear, Linksys, Axis, and the Gentoo embedded Linux distribution. The flaw makes it possible for… Read More »