Monday review – the hot 24 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 March 2020

• Has Houseparty really hacked your phone and stolen your bank details?
• How to stay on top of coronavirus scams – and all the others too
• Apple’s iOS 13.4 hit by VPN bypass vulnerability
• Chrome may bring back ‘www’ with option to show full URLs
• Should governments track your location to fight COVID-19?
• Google sent ~40K warnings to targets of state-backed attackers in 2019

Tuesday 31 March 2020

• Marriott International confirms data breach of up to 5.2 million guests
• Patch now! Critical flaw found in OpenWrt router software
• Dharma ransomware source code on sale for $2,000
• Data on almost every citizen of Georgia posted on hacker forum
• Researchers speed the death of ‘bad’ data in the race against good
• “Instant bank fraud” warning spread on WhatsApp is a hoax
• 5 tips for keeping your data safe this World Backup Day

Wednesday 1 April 2020

• Bill Gates’s YouTube ‘Bitcoin giveaway’ is a big fat scam
• QR code generator scam steals thousands in Bitcoin
• Microsoft’s Edge browser to get breached credential alerts

Thursday 2 April 2020

• Don’t get locked out of your own website – update this WordPress plugin now!
• S2 Ep33: Ransomware on sale, dark web disaster, dead drops and pillow forts – Naked Security Podcast
• Phone carriers must authenticate calls to fight robocalls, says FCC
• COVID-19 forces browser makers to continue supporting TLS 1.0

Friday 3 April 2020

• 5 things you can do today to make Zooming safer
• ‘Zombie’ Windows win32k bug reanimated by researcher
• Watch out for the new wave of COVID-19 scams, warns IRS

Sunday 5 April 2020

• Firefox zero day in the wild: patch now!

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