The hot topic hitting the tech news cycle this week has been the malware called CVE-2017-0199, a zero-day security vulnerability disguised as a Microsoft Word attachment. This bug is particularly dangerous because you don’t need to enable macros for it to activate.

This past Christmas, a hacker reportedly stumbled upon a back door to Linksys and Netgear DSL modems that allow an attacker to reset the router’s configuration and gain Admin access. Not good!

Some routers have this “back door” open to the local computer network while others are open to the Internet side of things, opening up users of these devices to remote Internet attacks.