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News in brief: Google pulls 500 apps from Play; lottery boss sentenced; drone owners told to update
The .fish website that caught visitors in a phishing net
Storm breaks over AccuWeather phoning home without consent
Did ROPEMAKER just unravel email security? Nah, it’s likely a feature
Banking trojan-slingers slip past Google Play’s malware defences
Google bakes in sweeter security for Android Oreo
Identity fraud in the UK at ‘epidemic’ levels as cases rise 5% – report
Facebook is making its Safety Check feature permanent
Adware API sends smartmobe data home to Chinese company
Lottery-hacking sysadmin’s unlucky number comes up: 25 years in the slammer
Smart robots prove stupidly easy to hack for spying and murder
IDG Contributor Network: Winter is coming. Protect your content kingdom
Apple iCloud Keychain easily slurped by cops, ElcomSoft claims
News in brief: AWS buckets leak more data; NHS hit by hacker; ‘Mr Smith’ may publish GoT episodes
US appeals court curbs police power to seize cellphones
‘Smart’ solar power inverters raise risk of energy grid attacks
US Navy suffers third ship collision this year
Fake news: Mozilla joins the fight to stop it polluting the web
Foxit backtracks after declining to fix zero-days exposed by ZDI
Disbanding your security team may not be an entirely dumb idea
Boffins blast beats to bury secret sonar in your ‘smart’ home
Open AWS S3 bucket leaked hotel booking service data
Phisherfolk dangle bait at dot-fish domain
Hackers scam half a million from Enigma digital currency investors
News in brief: ban on killer robots urged; Apple’s hidden job advert; torrent sites blocked Down Under
10% of UK’s top firms would be screwed in a cyber attack – survey
‘Gloomy times ahead’ for security on critical infrastructure, warn experts
The $500 gizmo that cracks iPhone passcodes – and how to stop it
Return to sender: military will send malware right back to you
British snoops at GCHQ knew FBI was going to arrest Marcus Hutchins
Concerns ignored as Home Office pushes ahead with facial recognition
Mirai copycats fired the IoT-cannon at game hosts, researchers find
Foxit PDF Reader is well and truly foxed up, but vendor won’t patch
Bitcoin-accepting sites leave cookie trail that crumbles anonymity
US DoD, Brit ISP BT reverse proxies can be abused to frisk internal systems – researcher
No, the cops can’t get a search warrant to just seize all devices in sight – US appeals court
Berkeley boffins build better spear-phishing black-box bruiser
News in brief: few girls studying computing; new Galaxy Note battery issue; fine over parking data breach
How likely is a ‘digital Pearl Harbor’ attack on critical infrastructure?
Drone firm says it’s stepping up security after US army ban
So long and thanks for all the phish: Red teams need to be smarter now
‘Pulse wave’ DDoS – another way of blasting sites offline
Q: How many drones are we bombing ISIS with? A: That’s secret, mmkay
Phone location privacy – for armed robber – headed to Supreme Court
What weighs 800kg and runs Windows XP? How to buy an ATM for fun and profit
New NIST draft embeds privacy into US govt security for the first time
US cops point at cell towers and say: Give us every phone number that’s touched that mast
What code is running on Apple’s Secure Enclave security chip? Now we have a decryption key…
Don’t panic, Chicago, but an AWS S3 config blunder exposed 1.8 million voter records
News in brief: new Bitcoin fork; HBO hacked; China cracks down
Woman targeted with 120 images on public transport via AirDrop
Uber faces privacy audits every two years until 2037, rules FTC
London council ‘failed to test’ parking ticket app, exposed personal info
Got an iPhone? Here’s what we think about the security of iOS11
It’s baaaack: Locky ransomware is on the rise again
UK govt steams ahead with £5m facial recog system amid furore over innocents’ mugshots
Bank IT fella accused of masterminding multimillion-dollar insider-trading scam
Rowhammer RAM attack adapted to hit flash storage
NotPetya ransomware attack cost us $300m – shipping giant Maersk
Disgraced US Secret Service agent coughs to second Bitcoin heist
News in brief: micro robots heal mice; Scottish Parliament hacked; Google Allo on desktops
Judge orders LinkedIn to stop blocking third-party use of your data
Who will own the data from your autonomous car?
HBO Game Of Thrones leak: Four ‘techies’ arrested in India
31% off WD 4TB My Passport Portable External USB 3.0 Hard Drive – Deal Alert
Bot armies of fake followers are the footsoldiers of fake news
Toronto woman joins the fight against creepshot image sites
She’s arrived! HMS Queen Lizzie enters Portsmouth Naval Base
Och. Scottish Parliament under siege from brute-force cyber attack
Speaking in Tech: Tomorrow’s infosec fiasco is a ‘we’re not a company any more’ fiasco
Months after breach at the ‘UnBank’ Ffrees, customers complain: No one told us
Russian malware scum post new rent-an-exploit
Creepy backdoor found in NetSarang server management software
Uber to bend over, take privacy probe every two years for next 20 years
News in brief: teen scoops Excel prize; four arrested over GoT leak; web firm fights DoJ ‘overreach’
Fancy Bear bites hotel networks as EternalBlue mystery deepens
Fresh Microsoft Office franken-exploit flops – and you should have patched by now anyway
Too many big online brands allow terrible passwords
How shared Android libraries could be weaponized for data theft
APT-style attack against over 4,000 infrastructure firms blamed on lone Nigerian 20-something
How much HBO hackers have is hazy; what they want is clear – cash
Drone-maker DJI’s Go app contains naughty Javascript hot-patching framework
US military spies: We’ll capture enemy malware, tweak it, lob it right back at our adversaries
AWS unveils AI monitoring for Amazon S3
News in brief: update bricks 500 smart locks; Hutchins pleads not guilty; drone landed on warship
Dashboard tracks ‘desire in foreign councils’ to meddle with democracy
WannaCry vanquisher Marcus Hutchins pleads not guilty to flogging banking trojan Kronos
Court records system has been open to hackers for decades
If Anonymous ‘pwnd’ the Daily Stormer, they did a spectacularly awful job
Thousands of Android-spying apps in the wild: what to do about SonicSpy
Why China’s quantum satellites do not herald ‘unhackable’ networks
Is your corporate inbox smelling a bit ‘phishy’ these days?
Sneaky devs could abuse shared libraries to slurp smartphone data
Leaky PostgreSQL passwords plugged
Top repo managers clone, then close, a nasty SSH vector
Kremlin’s hackers ‘wield stolen NSA exploit to spy on hotel guests in Europe, Mid East’
Infosec eggheads rig USB desk lamp to leak passwords via Bluetooth
News in brief: facial recognition planned for Carnival; spy chief backs encryption; ginger emoji planned
Firefox 55 makes Flash click-to-run, fixes security bugs
‘You could see why someone might want to hack DNA’