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 16 March 2020

• Microsoft patches wormable Windows 10 ‘SMBGhost’ flaw
• Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’
• Open source bugs have soared in the past year
• Senate bill would ban TikTok from government phones

Tuesday 17 March 2020

• Slack fixes account-stealing bug
• Tor browser fixes bug that allows JavaScript to run when disabled
• WordPress to get automatic updates for plugins and themes
• Europol busts up two SIM-swapping hacking rings

Wednesday 18 March 2020

• Android malware uses coronavirus for sextortion and ransomware combo
• VMware patches virtualisation bugs
• Uber to file federal suit against LA over users’ real-time location data
• DDoS attack on US Health agency part of coordinated campaign
• Human traffickers use social media oversharing to gain victims’ trust

Thursday 19 March 2020

• ‘Dirty little secret’ extortion email threatens to give your family coronavirus
• NIST shared dataset of tattoos that’s been used to identify prisoners
• Cryptojacking is almost conquered – crushed along with Coinhive
• Delayed Adobe patches fix long list of critical flaws
• Facebook accidentally blocks genuine COVID-19 news

Friday 20 March 2020

• S2 Ep31: Remote working, malwareless ransomware and EARN IT – Naked Security Podcast
• Trolls ZoomBomb work-from-home videocall with filth
• Exchange rate service’s customer details hacked via AWS
• COVID-19 disruption delays release of Chrome version 81
• Location-tracking wristbands required on all incoming travelers to Hong Kong

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