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

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• News in brief: China plans its own Wikipedia; social media firms face huge fines; TalkTalk duo plead guilty
• Fraudsters draining accounts with ‘SIM swaps’ – what to do
• Netflix declines to pay Orange is the New Black ransom to hacker
• GE patches flaws allowing attackers to ‘disconnect power grid at will’
• Fox News ‘hacked Andrea Tantaros’, says lawsuit
• Super Free Music Player in Google Play is malware: a technical analysis

Wednesday 3 May 2017

• News in brief: China steps up news oversight; Intel patches flaw; Zuck pledges better moderation
• BASIC turns 53 – find out just how cool that is!
• Concern mounts at Indian ID scheme as portals ‘leak’ 100m people’s details
• Tinder orders researcher to remove dataset of 40,000 profile pictures
• Want to get your Android phone purring? Don’t install Full Optimizer

Thursday 4 May 2017

• News in brief: UHD Blu-ray encryption ‘cracked’; WhatsApp falls over; Gmail boosts phish protection
• Going travelling? Don’t drop your guard when you’re on the road
• Have you got what it takes to hack the US Air Force?
• Update: Google Docs used for phishing? Not exactly
• NSA kept an eye on 151m phone records – but wait, didn’t bulk collection stop three years ago?

Friday 5 May 2017

• The Google-phish-that-was-also-a-worm – what happened and what to do
• News in brief: Uber faces criminal probe; Cassini dives through Saturn’s rings; police fined for data breach
• Bank accounts raided after crooks exploit huge flaw in mobile networks
• Listen up: is this really who you think it is talking?
• Celebrity ‘extortion’: judge orders reality star to unlock her iPhone

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