Monday review – the hot 23 stories of the week

Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days – it's weekly roundup time.

Monday 26 September 2016

• Don’t drill a headphone jack hole into your iPhone 7! It’s a hoax
• Back to college/university? Don’t take cybercriminals with you!
• Will quantum teleportation defeat quantum decryption?
• We’re the government, and we’re here to help! [Chet Chat Podcast 252]
• 77% of adblocker users feel guilty about it
• Yelp fights court order to remove negative review of law firm

Tuesday 27 September 2016

• Mamba ransomware strikes at your whole disk, not just your files
• Girls’ fashion hangout site leaking millions of plaintext passwords
• College student arrested for allegedly hacking system to change grades
• Are Snap(chat)’s Spectacles the new Google Glass?

Wednesday 28 September 2016

• Mozilla to take action against WoSign’s woeful cryptographic blunders
• Marissa Mayer declined to reset Yahoo users’ passwords 2 years ago
• Facebook ordered to stop collecting WhatsApp user data in Germany
• Opera browser starts running traffic through its own “VPN”

Thursday 29 September 2016

• FBI probes possible hacks targeting phones of Democratic Party staff
• Why a massive DDoS attack on a blogger has internet experts worried
• SMS spammer cops big fine for close to 8 million text message spams
• Major bank attacks thwarted by SWIFT thinking
• Pippa Middleton’s hacked iCloud photos banned from publication

Friday 30 September 2016

• Japanese man arrested for selling jailbroken iPhones
• Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM team up on AI
• DMV worker accused of using state computer to ask customer on a date
• Use stronger authentication, urge White House and tech companies

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