Monday review – the hot 21 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 20 January 2020

• FBI seizes credentials-for-sale site WeLeakInfo.com
• FBI to inform election officials about hacking attempts
• Teen entered ‘dark rabbit hole of suicidal content’ online
• Facebook and Instagram ban alleged ‘brainwashing’ service

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• Citrix ships patches as vulnerable servers come under attack
• China and US top user data requests in Apple transparency report
• What do online file sharers want with 70,000 Tinder images?

Wednesday 22 January 2020

• Big Microsoft data breach – 250 million records exposed
• Ubisoft sues DDoS-for-hire operators for ruining game play
• NIST’s new privacy rules – what you need to know
• Regus spills data of 900 staff on Trello board set to ‘public’
• Nobody boogies quite like you

Thursday 23 January 2020

• Looking for silver linings in the CVE-2020-0601 crypto vulnerability
• UN report alleges that Saudi crown prince hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone
• Apple allegedly made nice with FBI by dropping iCloud encryption plan
• Sonos’s tone-deaf legacy product policy angers customers
• FBI issues warning about lucrative fake job scams

Friday 24 January 2020

• Google finds privacy holes in Safari’s ITP anti-tracking system
• Protestors petition equity firm over .org buyout
• 9th Methbot suspect arrested in massive clickfraud ring
• Privacy watchdog throws wider net to protect children online

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