Monday review – the hot 23 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 11 March 2019

• US Army clarifies its killer robot plans
• Booking a restaurant? Let Google’s Duplex AI make the call for you
• FTC says taxpayer voice phishing scams are up nearly 20x

Tuesday 12 March 2019

• Facebook sues developers over data-scraping quizzes
• Study throws security shade on freelance and student programmers
• Citrix admits attackers breached its network – what we know
• Email list-cleaning site may have leaked up to 2 billion records
• John Oliver bombards the FCC with anti-robocall robocall campaign

Wednesday 13 March 2019

• “FINAL WARNING” email – have they really hacked your webcam?
• Chrome will soon block drive-by-download malvertising
• Update now! WordPress abandoned cart plugin under attack
• Misconfigured Box accounts leak terabytes of companies’ sensitive data
• New bill would give parents an ‘Eraser Button’ to delete kids’ data

Thursday 14 March 2019

• Serious Security: What we can all learn from #PiDay
• Man drives 3,300 miles to talk to YouTube about deleted video
• Google needs breaking up, says news chief
• Update now! Microsoft’s March 2019 Patch Tuesday is here

Friday 15 March 2019

• Sextortion – what’s new, and what to do [VIDEO]
• You left WHAT on that USB drive?!
• Ep. 023 – Facebook promises and Google Chrome patches [PODCAST]
• Facebook outage coincides with (or causes?) 3m new Telegram users
• How to make DuckDuckGo your default Chrome search engine
• Will the next version of Android get location privacy right?

This week’s podcast

This week’s Naked Security Live

Received an alarming email claiming to have x-rated footage of you stolen via your webcam? Don’t panic – it’s not real. Here’s what to do:

(Watch directly on YouTube if the video won’t play here.)

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