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

Monday 4 February 2019

• Security weaknesses in 5G, 4G and 3G could expose users’ locations
• Chrome’s hidden lookalike detection feature battles URL imposters
• FBI burrowing into North Korea’s big bad botnet
• Selling fake likes and follows is illegal, rules New York

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• Ep. 018 – Home invasions, snoopy apps and Android versus iOS [PODCAST]
• Home DNA kit company says it’s working with the FBI
• Half of IoT devices let down by vulnerable apps
• Crypto exchange in limbo after founder dies with password
• Kids’ GPS watches are still a security ‘train wreck’

Wednesday 6 February 2019

• Jack’d dating app is showing users’ intimate pics to strangers
• Firefox 66 will silence autoplaying web audio
• Just two hacker groups are behind 60% of stolen cryptocurrency
• Digital signs left wide open with default password

Thursday 7 February 2019

• Serious Security: Post-Quantum Cryptography (and why we’re getting it)
• KeySteal could allow someone to steal your Apple Keychain passwords
• Anyone want to lay claim to the USB drive found in seal poo?
• Chrome extension warns users their login credentials have been breached
• Unlimited crypotocurrency? Zcash fixes counterfeiting flaw

Friday 8 February 2019

• Android vulnerabilities open Pie to booby-trapped image attacks
• iPhone apps record your screen sessions without asking
• Child abuse imagery found in cryptocurrency blockchain
• Student gets creative with data accidentally blasted out by university
• Police tell Waze to stop pinpointing their checkpoints
• Facebook ordered to keep apps separate unless users opt in to sharing

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