Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days – it's weekly roundup time.
Monday 19 September 2016
- FBI or no FBI – how one man says he can crack an iPhone for less than $100
- 324,000 payment cards breached, CVVs included
- Bullocks need privacy too! Google Street View blurs ruminant’s face
- Mooncake thieves fired from Alibaba’s infosec department
- Password-protect your Wi-Fi hotspots and ask for user details too, rules ECJ
- Facebook and Twitter team up with news orgs to help stop hoax news
- Science news journal EurekAlert down after hack
Tuesday 20 September 2016
- House panel looking into Reddit post linked to Clinton’s deleted email
- Student cybervandal earns $300,000 for hacking US Airlines
- Maker of smart vibrator sued for snooping on customers’ use
- Robot arrested for allegedly recording voters at a political rally
- How one man could have deleted any Facebook page
Wednesday 21 September 2016
- Google weakens Allo privacy promises
- Don’t plug it in! Scammers post infected USB sticks through letterboxes
- New guidelines: cybersecurity, privacy and your self-driving car
- Hackers take over Tesla Model S while car is moving
Thursday 22 September 2016
- Siri opens “smart” lock to let neighbor walk into a locked house
- Eleven US cities to crack down on warrantless surveillance
- Mr. Robot season 2 finale eps2.9_pyth0n-pt2.p7z – the security review
- Don’t rely on Cortana to make your emergency calls
Friday 23 September 2016
- Michelle Obama’s passport – or a scan that looks like it – posted online
- YouTube is cleaning up and it wants your help!
- Twitter says government requests for data still climbing
- Change your password! Yahoo confirms data breach of 500 million accounts
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