WiMAX routers manufactured by several companies, including Huawei and ZyXEL, are vulnerable to an authentication bypass and potential backdoors.

Cisco patched two critical flaws in its Prime Data Center Network Manager, including one that could be exploited remotely and allow an attacker root access.

VMware fixed two critical vulnerabilities in its vSphere Data Protection solution this week that could have allowed an attacker to execute commands on the appliance, among other outcomes.

Moto G4 and Moto G5 model Motorola phones are vulnerable to kernel command line injection vulnerabilities.

Safari will use machine learning to decide which third-party cookies to block, with the aim of reducing how much your footsteps around the web are followed by advertisers

Should you be surprised if location data is used as evidence against you? Should police need a warrant for it? It’s time for some overdue clarity

The ‘flagrancy of the FBI’s misconduct’ in obtaining the warrant and deploying malware in a fishing expedition to catch child abusers was ‘truly staggering’, said the judge

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

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