Get yourself up to date with everything we’ve written in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.
Monday 25 January 2016
- “66% of Android devices” vulnerable to Linux zero-day bug … or not
- Critial XSS flaws in Magento leave ecommerce sites at risk
- Has your sleeping baby been indexed by this search engine?
- RSA Conference disables Twitter password-collecting form
- Fighting human trafficking is the new justification for encryption backdoors (so says California)
- Exploits, malverts, ransomware, iOS – and Star Wars! [Chet Chat Podcast 228]
Tuesday 26 January 2016
- Do not share the link that crashes iPhones and Mac browsers
- “You gotta touch the banana” for Wi-Fi access, says sys admin
- Why “find my phone” apps keep sending people to one couple’s house
- Hacker who sent heroin to Brian Krebs pleads guilty
Wednesday 27 January 2016
- Critical Java bug found in PayPal servers
- The Wi-Fi router with a password that takes just 70 guesses…
- Facebook-prowling predator arrested after mother helps police
- Nursing home workers caught sharing nude patient images on Snapchat
- IoT doorbell gave up Wi-Fi passwords to anybody with a screwdriver
Thursday 28 January 2016
- Your kids: more time online, less time watching TV… so let’s keep them safe
- What do you think of trying Tor today?
- Police destroy evidence with 10 failed passcode attempts on iPhone
- 1 tip to make your home safer on Data Privacy Day
- Google Glass for the masses, king of computerized headgear, is dead
- Software bug exposes Uber driver’s tax info
- Emotion-reading robots to staff a mobile phone store
Friday 29 January 2016
- Never fear, home IT heroes – Sophos has a security solution for you
- This Facebook bug could have allowed hackers to take over your account
- Sysadmin held at gunpoint by man demanding he fix his computer
- Dad found not guilty for taking away his daughter’s iPhone
- FDA releases draft guidelines to improve cybersecurity in medical devices
- NYC launches investigation into hackability of baby monitors
