PayPal Hacked, Scary Router Hijack, PinePhone, Mac Pro Server
Channel: Category5 Technology TV with Robbie Ferguson
Date: 2020-01-19

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Here are the stories we are following this week in the Category5.TV Newsroom:

04:58 - PayPal has confirmed that a researcher found a high-severity security vulnerability that could expose user passwords to an attacker.

09:48 - A vulnerability in Broadcom's cable modem firmware has left as many as 200 million home broadband gateways in Europe, and potentially more worldwide, at risk of remote hijackings.

12:06 - Apple has begun selling the rack-mountable variant of its Mac Pro desktop computer.

13:40 - The PinePhone is an affordable Linux smartphone created by Pine64, makers of the Pinebook Pro laptop, the RockPro64 and Pine64 single board computer.

Honorable Mentions:

00:56 - Late last month Citrix disclosed a critical security hole in both its Application Delivery Controller and Unified Gateway offerings. Up to 80,000 systems were thought to be at risk, with some 25,000 instances found online over the weekend.

02:41 - Support for Windows 7 is over. For security, software updates and other reasons, it's time to stop procrastinating and make the move to Windows 10.

Full Stories: https://category5.tv/shows/newsroom/episode/639/