Smart Security for Today's Smart Homes: Don't Let Attackers Spoil your Holiday

With the holiday season around the corner, thoughts turn to a warm home brightened up by the twinkle of seasonal decorations. It’s always tempting to opt for the high-tech solution and control your festive lights with one of the growing number of home automation devices available. However, Symantec has found that some of these devices contain security flaws that could allow attackers to gain access to your home network.

Wyndham Hotels Group inks deal with Sabre

Wyndham Hotel Group and Sabre Corporation have signed a global strategic technology partnership which will provide cloud-based, cutting-edge Software-as-a-Service reservations, revenue management and enhanced security solutions. As part of this agreement, Wyndham Hotel Group expects to migrate over 4,500 of its North American properties to Sabre’s SynXis Property Manager beginning in mid-2015.

Apple Can't Make Enough iPhone 6s To Keep People Happy (AAPL)

Piper Jaffray Apple analyst Gene Munster did some channel checks on the iPhone. Turns out, it's still hard to get your hands on a new iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus in the US.  Munster tracks a variety of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models. He says that his checks reveal only 56% of the phones are in stock. On November 20, he did a similar check and found that 58% of phones were available. So, in the past month, iPhone 6 supply has gotten slightly worse. (Although, confusingly, Munster says when he checked on November 14, only 0.4% of the models were in stock.

LEAKED: Sony's Secret List Of Spider-Man Characters That Never Got Screen Time

A new set of Sony files was posted online by hackers over the weekend. Among corporate planning documents and accounting spreadsheets is something pretty amusing — a series of internal memos and spreadsheets reveal prolonged negotiations between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Marvel Comics over the rights for hundreds of different superhero characters in the Spider-Man franchise.  Marvel Comics owns the rights to the fictional characters in the Spider-Man comic books, but can sell the film rights to various studios.

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