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 30 September 2019

• Checkm8 jailbreak and AltStore put cracks in Apple’s walled garden
• Social media manipulation as a political tool is spreading
• Outlook on the web bans a further 38 file types
• Is the era of social media Likes over?

Tuesday 1 October 2019

• Cloudflare adds VPN features to 1.1.1.1 privacy app
• Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’
• China’s 500 megapixel camera is capable of mega-facial-recognition
• Darknet hosting provider in underground NATO bunker busted

Wednesday 2 October 2019

• Exim suffers another ‘critical’ remote code execution flaw
• O.MG! Evil Lightning cable about to hit mass distribution
• 218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers
• Ex-Yahoo engineer pleads guilty to hacking 6,000 accounts

Thursday 3 October 2019

• No federal privacy law will make it in the US this year, sources say
• PDF encryption standard weaknesses uncovered
• Google’s Password Manager now checks for breached credentials
• Ransomware attacks paralyze, and sometimes crush, hospitals

Friday 4 October 2019

• S2 Ep11: Fleeceware, Chrome bug and the sextortion scam that won’t die – Naked Security Podcast
• Buying a new laptop? Here’s how to secure it
• WhatsApp vulnerability could compromise Android smartphones
• £3 billion Safari iPhone privacy lawsuit given go-ahead
• Hacker’s parents sentenced for selling his cryptocurrency
• Google brings Incognito mode to Maps

The latest Naked Security Live video

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The Naked Security podcast: S2 Ep11

We discuss the realities of user education in honour of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month [1’04”], Greg shares SophosLabs’ latest research into ‘Fleeceware’ [9’27”], Mark explains how Chrome brought Hollywood to a standstill [18’54] and Anna discusses why sextortion emails just won’t die [33’54].

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