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‘Urgent/11’ flaws affect 200 million devices – from routers to elevators

There are 11 security flaws affecting VxWorks: “the most widely used operating system you may never have heard about”.

Google’s Project Zero has unveiled details of a bug in Apple’s iMessage that lets attackers read data from an iPhone without any user interaction.

The Department of Public Safety says it won’t pay, but given the umpteen times the state’s agencies have been hit, somebody’s not listening.

It would require taking over and stranding 20% of a city’s cars to freeze traffic, and only 10% to impede ambulances, physicists calculate.