Monday review – the hot 22 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 22 October 2018

• Popular website plugin harboured a serious 0-day for years
• Alleged robber busted after Facebook-friending victim to apologize
• Up to 9.5 million net neutrality comments were fake
• Maker of LuminosityLink RAT gets 30 months in the clink

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• Patch now! Multiple serious flaws found in Drupal
• Phishing is still the most commonly used attack on organizations, survey says
• Adult websites shuttered after 1.2 million user details exposed
• Why is Elon Musk promoting this Bitcoin scam? (He’s not)
• Pirates! Don’t blame your illegal file sharing on family members

Wednesday 24 October 2018

• Are your jilted apps stalking you?
• WordPress takes aim at ancient versions of its software
• Poorly secured SSH servers targeted by Chalubo botnet
• Former high school teacher pleads guilty to hacking celebrities
• Are you Cyber Aware? How about your friends and family?

Thursday 25 October 2018

• Firefox 63 gets tough with trackers
• Google and Facebook accused of secretly tracking users’ locations
• Could TLS session resumption be another ‘super cookie’?

Friday 26 October 2018

• Apple and Samsung punished for slowing down old smartphones
• Facebook fined £500K for Cambridge Analytica saga
• Former Facebook security chief calls out Apple for privacy hypocrisy
• Facebook stopped 8.7m nude images of children in 3 months
• How to become a Monero million(th)aire in just 20 minutes [PODCAST]

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