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Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days – it's weekly roundup time.
Monday 15 August 2016
- Tech support scammer tricked into installing ransomware
- How to tell the “real” @realDonaldTrump, and why it’s a security lesson for us all
- Safer Gmail: more warnings against fakes, phishers, and spoofers
- Justice by keylogger – the biter bit! [Chet Chat Podcast 250]
Tuesday 16 August 2016
- Did “The Shadow Brokers” hack NSA cyberweapons worth $500M?
- US hotels hit by payment card slurping malware
- People like using passwords way more than biometrics
- “You dirty RAT” – Spy versus Spy in the cybercrime underworld
- Silk Road suspect “Libertas” can be extradited to US, says court
Wednesday 17 August 2016
- VeraCrypt disk encryption team claims “emails intercepted”
- “Hunted” schoolgirls’ nude images and personal info published online
- Why you STILL can’t trust password strength meters
- Google faces legal action over data-mining emails
- Facebook’s unblockable-ads push is a “big bluff”
Thursday 18 August 2016
- Cisco vuln shows up in attack tools leaked by “NSA hackers”
- Mr. Robot eps2.5_h4ndshake.sme – the security review
- NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know
Friday 19 August 2016
- Twitter takes down 235K extremist accounts
- Man hacks Android app to get free beer
- Police chiefs: we need the right to decrypt your stuff
- Why people ignore security alerts up to 87% of the time
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