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Thousands of Android apps bypass Advertising ID to track users

Six years after it was introduced, it looks as if Android’s Advertising ID (AAID) might no longer be the privacy forcefield Google claimed it would be.

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If you think your deleted Twitter DMs are sliding into the trash, you’re wrong

They're never deleted, just erased from the UI. You can still see archived messages if you download your data.

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Facebook acts like a law-breaking ‘digital gangster’, says official report

Facebook considers itself to be “ahead of and beyond the law,” UK lawmakers said in a report about "disinformation and 'fake news.'"

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Fake text generator is so good its creators don’t want to release full version

OpenAI has created what amounts to a text version of a deepfake - and it’s too scared for humanity to release the full version.

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Mega-crackers back with nearly 100 million new stolen data records

Sounds like the crooks who tried to sell more than 600 million records last week are back with nearly 100 million more...

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Opera integrates a cryptocurrency wallet – is this Web 3.0?

When it appears in the next few weeks, the next version of Opera (“Reborn 3” or “R3”) for Windows, Mac and Linux will become the first mainstream desktop browser to integrate a cryptocurrency wallet.

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Will the EU’s new copyright directive ruin the web?

Articles 11 and 13 live on, with the dreaded 'link tax', 'meme killer', 'censorship machine' and all.

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Monday review – the hot 28 stories of the week

From McDonald's hamburglars to 1000-character phishing urls, and everything between. It's weekly roundup time.

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Apple fighting pirate app developers, will insist on 2FA for coders

Are you an Apple developer? Care about security? Using 2FA? You will be soon...

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Judge won’t unseal legal docs in fight to break Messenger encryption

The Feds tried—and failed—to force Facebook to break its encryption so investigators could listen in on suspected MS-13 gang conversations.

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Should we profit from the sale of our personal data?

Don't spend that 30 cents all in one place!

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Chinese facial recognition database exposes 2.5m people

A company operating a facial recognition system in China has exposed millions of residents’ personal information online.

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Photography site 500px resets 14.8 million passwords after data breach

Photography website 500px has become the latest site to admit suffering a serious data breach.

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Inside a GandCrab targeted ransomware attack on a hospital

A recent attack on a US hospital gives us a colourful picture of both how a targeted ransomware attack happens, and how it can be stopped.

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What’s behind this 1,000-character phishing URL?

Bleeping Computer learned of a strange phishing campaign which uses an unusually long URL - but why?

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Apple App Store stuffed with hardcore porn and gambling apps

The apps, which violate content policies, got in there via the same Enterprise Certificate program that Facebook and Google exploited.

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Google paid out $3.4m in bug bounties last year

317 researchers from 78 countries turned 2018 into a worldwide bug-crunching spree.

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Update now! Microsoft and Adobe’s February 2019 Patch Tuesday is here

Internet Explorer (IE) may have launched way back in 1995 but nearly a quarter of a century later it’s still creating work for Microsoft and Windows users.

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Top tips for Valentine’s Day – and the rest of the year! [VIDEO]

Our top tips for Valentine's Day and beyond - all in just 5 minutes. Enjoy!

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Another flaw found in macOS Mojave’s privacy protection

Ever since Apple announced enhanced privacy protection for macOS Mojave 10.14 last September, a dedicated band of researchers has been poking away at it looking for security flaws. Here's another.

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Evil USB O.MG Cable opens up Wi-Fi to remote attacks

... and enables de-authenticaton attacks that could knock targeted systems off the Wi-Fi and onto one of these nefarious cables.

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