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

Monday 23 April 2018

• Yahoo mega-breach hacker faces nearly 8 years in prison
• LinkedIn patches serious leak in its AutoFill plugin
• Is scraping files from a Freedom of Information website ‘hacking’?

Tuesday 24 April 2018

• Police try (and fail) to unlock phone with a dead man’s finger
• Ex-Reddit mogul apologizes for making the world ‘a worse place’
• Can a commercial VPN really keep you anonymous? [VIDEO]
• Google Project Zero pulls the rug out from under Microsoft (again)

Wednesday 25 April 2018

• Mysterious “double kill” IE zero-day allegedly in the wild
• One month to GDPR. Are you ready?
• Ride-hailing service Careem lost 14 million users’ data… in January

Thursday 26 April 2018

• Know what Instagram knows – here’s how you download your data
• 20 years ago today! What we can learn from the CIH virus…
• Access denied! World’s largest denial of service site busted
• Yahoo fined $35m for staying quiet about mega breach
• Gmail users, here’s how (and why) you should set up prompt-based 2FA

Friday 27 April 2018

• “SamSam” ransomware – a mean old dog with a nasty new trick
• Getting an Amazon Echo app to silently eavesdrop on you
• Infamous revenge porn site Anon-IB seized by police
• Apple’s latest updates are out – APFS password leakage bug squashed

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