Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days – it's weekly roundup time.
Monday 16 January 2017
- News in brief: Snowden supporters petition Obama; iOS Onion browser now free; bank bans WhatsApp
- Ukraine power outages ‘the work of cyberattackers’, warn experts
- Spora ransomware goes freemium with four different payment options
- WhatsApp ‘backdoor’ turns out to be known design feature
- Trump picks hackable Rudy Giuliani as cybersecurity advisor
- Obama administration signs off on wider data-sharing for NSA
Tuesday 17 January 2017
- News in brief: flying cars take off; terrible passwords; Facebook picks Paris incubator campus
- Italian pair arrested over alleged hack of cardinals and masons
- Advice for Trump: think about your security infrastructure
- WhatsApp scams spread widely thanks to trust between friends
- BBC launches probe into leak of Russian-dubbed Sherlock finale
- Advice to Donald Trump: think before you tweet
Wednesday 18 January 2017
- News in brief: Assange ducks promise; CIA papers go online; G+ adds Facebook-like features
- Student keylogger creator faces jail after pleading guilty
- Stuxnet general pardoned by Obama – but deeper questions remain
- Artificial intelligence can be used to predict your death – but is it secure?
- The return of the cyber squirrel wars
- Drone pilot facing jail after knocking out a woman at Pride
- Rogue developer used ‘backdoor’ web access to fuel cybercrime spree
Thursday 19 January 2017
- What the end of Patch Tuesday means for businesses
- The Mirai DDoS botnet: Brian Krebs claims to know who wrote it
- The trouble with online porn: it’s impossible to block
- IS turns hobby drones into remote-control bombs
- News in brief: Davos drones jammed; Nato warns of rising cyberattacks; computer fraud statistics revealed
- Girls targeted by GCHQ for cybersecurity careers
- China clamps down on app stores in bid to curb malware
Friday 20 January 2017
- News in brief: Note 7 fire cause to be revealed; Trump gives up cellphone; Cortana moves on to Android lockscreen
- Protestors urged to try and swamp White House website
- Meitu app is all the rage, but privacy concerns abound
- Alleged child molester caught after 18 years thanks to facial recognition
- School sues sysadmin for wiping its only login to Gmail
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