KFC Corporation warned 1.2 million of its UK-based Colonel’s Club members to reset their passwords after 30 members were targeted in an attack.

As part of Patch Tuesday Adobe patched a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player the company claims is being used in targeted attacks against Internet Explorer users on Windows.

Microsoft patched a half-dozen critical browser vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed, but apparently not used in attacks as of yet.

Netgear has built beta firmware updates for its Nighthawk routers vulnerable to a command injection attack disclosed last week.

Hackers are mining Zcash cryptocurrency surreptitiously on PCs infected with cleverly named programs such as system.exe, taskmngr.exe and svchost.exe.

‘Sledgehammer’ tool encourages hackers to launch DDoS attacks – but there’s a sting in the tail

Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news

Command injection made easy: you can simply append a system command to a certain router URL…and the router will run it for you.

Malware connected to ransom attacks seeks to defy software protection

The Wall Street Journal is reporting (Warning: paywalled; alternate source) that Panasonic is “introducing convenience-store checkout machines that can scan and bag items on their own, joining Amazon.com Inc. in the push for more retail automation.” The machines will also…