Favourite Security Reads of the Week (18 Aug 2017)

Favourite Security Reads of the Week (18 Aug 2017) .

"Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected].

Below is the Favourite Security Reads of this Week.

1. 非官方維修手機 小心遭黑客入侵 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2017-08-11, Chinese)
2. Botched Firmware Update Bricks Hundreds of Smart Door Locks (Bleeping Computer, 2017-08-12)
3. Why NIST’s Bill Burr shouldn’t regret his 2003 password advice (Sophos Naked Security, 2017-08-11)
4. Snake Oil Security: Signs of Security (& Crypto) Snake Oil (Hashed Out, 2017-08-11)
5. Setting Up Effective Intrusion Prevention Rules (NTT Security, 2017-08-10)
6. TrafficTrade Infection Spreading – How to Protect Yourself and Detect TrafficTrade (Wordfence, 2017-08-08)