Monday review – the hot 16 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 14 November 2016

• Wi-Fi shadows cast by your fingers could leak your password
• Zuckerberg pushes back on fears over fake news on Facebook
• Florida man charged in JPMorgan hacking probe

Tuesday 15 November 2016

• BlackNurse DDoS attack can ‘overload firewalls from a laptop’
• Privacy stripped bare as hackers breach 412 million Adult Friend Finder accounts

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• Get root on Linux: learn the secret password
• WhatsApp tightens user privacy with encrypted video calls
• Concern and confusion over privacy and security of AR technology
• Shanghai surprise as cheap Android devices ‘phone home’ to China

Thursday 17 November 2016

• BlackNurse revisited: what you need to know
• How a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero can hack your locked laptop
• Barclays mulls letting customers check balances via Facebook

Friday 18 November 2016

• OK, so it’s called “BlackNurse”. But *why*? [Chet Chat Podcast 255]
• Mobile phone company 3 in “upgrade intercept scam” data breach
• Office Depot allegedly running in-store tech support scams
• iPhones vulnerable to yet another lockscreen bypass

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