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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 12 December 2016
- Netgear routers have gaping remote access hole
- News in brief: Trump scorns ‘meddling’ claims; outdated OS use ‘widespread’; teen ‘hackers’ arrested
- DDoS tool encourages users to compete against each other for points
- Like Jessica Alba? Don’t click Facebook links promising nude photos of her – or anyone else
- Give the gift of a social engineering demo this Christmas
Tuesday 13 December 2016
- Apple ships iOS 10.2, fixes ‘Find my iPhone’ hole plus five lockscreen bugs
- Spectacular $81m bank cyberheist ‘was not a one-off’
- News in brief: fowl play; Google moves into Cuba; teen hacker sentenced
- Nymaim using MAC addresses to uncover virtual environments and bypass antivirus
Wednesday 14 December 2016
- News in brief: Uber goes driverless in SFO; Skype on macOS; 2016’s breaches tallied; encryption call for cameras
- New York exhibition puts us – and our data – on display
- Macs get critical updates, including patches against drive-by malware
- Smart devices abandoned on the road to nowhere
- SamB spreads the message about surveillance via rap
- Netgear router remote control bug – what you need to know
Thursday 15 December 2016
- Yahoo breach: I’ve closed my account because it used MD5 to hash my password
- Yahoo breach: your questions answered in our Facebook Live video
- Yahoo breach: why does it take so long to tell people about a hack?
- News in brief: Ashley Madison fined; Pirate Bay blocked Down Under; drone delivery in 13 minutes
- Alleged upskirter ordered to hand over iPhone passcode by court
- Regulators crack down on Skype and WhatsApp over privacy
- Yahoo breach: here’s what you need to do
- Popcorn Time ransomware lets you off if you infect two other people
Friday 16 December 2016
- Third ‘JPMorgan hacker’ arrested as he arrived at JFK
- News in brief: Yahoo woes mount; Evernote backs down; ATM fraudster jailed
- Trump’s security advisor dismisses ‘insignificant’ data-sharing fears
- Backdoors ‘punish the wrong people’, EU security body warns
- Microsoft to ditch Flash – sort of
- DNC chief Podesta led to phishing link ‘thanks to a typo’
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