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Facebook got humans to listen in on some Messenger voice chats

Facebook says it's paused the practice of collecting voice clips and sending them to employees to transcribe and analyze.

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Patch time! Microsoft warns of new worm-ready RDP bugs

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday bought some bad news yesterday: more wormable RDP vulnerabilities, this time affecting Windows 10 users.

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Fortnite World Cup champion and family swatted while live streaming

"They come in with guns, bro. They literally pulled up, holy sh*t."

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Coinbase explains background to June zero-day Firefox attack

A recent, highly targeted attack on cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase offers a glimpse into how sophisticated phishing attacks can be.

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Fake news doesn’t (always) fool mice

Mice can interpret speech phonemes correctly up to 80% of the time without falling for semantic hoodwinks like humans do.

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Hacked devices can be turned into acoustic weapons

Security researcher Matt Wixey found that many gadgets aren't protected from being turned into hearing-damaging weapons. Or melting.

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Chrome Incognito mode detection fix busted by researchers

Remember that Chrome update that stopped websites from detecting Incognito mode? Well, researchers claim to have found a way around it.

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Android users menaced by pre-installed malware

Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone has found a new and concerning route for malware to find its way on to Android devices - malicious apps that have been factory pre-installed.

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Hacking 4G hotspots – when did you last update?

Your 4G hotspot might seem very basic and low risk compared to your phone, but you need to keep it patched just as carefully!

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Apple will hand out unlocked iPhones to vetted researchers

It formalizes the reality: "pre-jailbroken" iPhones were already on the black market.

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Facebook facial recognition: class action suit gets court’s go ahead

The court said facial recognition could well harm privacy rights, given its “detailed, encyclopedic, and effortlessly compiled” biometrics collection.

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GDPR privacy can be defeated using right of access requests

A British researcher has uncovered an ironic, gaping security hole in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - right of access requests.

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Monday review – the hot 23 stories of the week

This week: hijacked home routers, SMS spam and time to update your iPhone. Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.

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Blackmailed for Bitcoin – exchange rebuffs $3.5m ransom demand

Here's a story of super-sized digital blackmail aimed at one of the biggest cryptocoin exchanges out there.

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Instagram boots ad partner for location tracking and scraping stories

A “preferred Facebook Marketing Partner” is alleged to have tracked millions of Instagram users' locations and stories.

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Parents, it’s time to delete Pet Chat from your child’s LeapPad

LeapFrog has done lots to fix the security of the LeapPad. Now all that's left is for parents to scrape Pet Chat off of older tablets.

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Your Skype Translator calls may be heard by humans

A Skype Translator insider claims it's good because humans are listening in and helping to train its artificial intelligence.

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Update your iPhone – remote control holes revealed by researchers

You might not think your phone is as exposed as an internet server - but it's handling plenty of untrusted data from unknown sources!

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Twitter may have shared your data with its ad partners without your permission

Some user data, such as country and device type, was exposed to some advertisers for over a year.

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Cisco 220 Series Smart Switch owners told to apply urgent patch

Businesses running any of Cisco’s 220 Series Smart Switches have some urgent patching work on their hands.

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More than 2m AT&T phones illegally unlocked by bribed insiders

The alleged, now indicted ringleader paid more than $1m in bribes to insiders who planted malware and hardware for remote unlocking.

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