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Power to the people! Google backtracks (a bit) on forced Chrome logins

Google thought it was a such a great idea to start logging you into everything when you logged into something... that it forgot to ask.

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Robocallers slapped with huge fines for using spoofed phone numbers

One poor woman whose phone number was hijacked by robocallers got several calls a day from irate consumers who thought she was trying to market to them.

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Cryptojacking – coming to a server-laptop-phone near you (and how to stop it)

Cryptomining apps were banned from the Play Store some time ago - but that hasn't stopped the crooks getting cryptojackers past Google...

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Spotify offers playlists tailored to your DNA

Spotify and Ancestry have teamed up to let you use your real DNA to tell your “musical” DNA.

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Firefox Monitor starts tracking breached email addresses

Mozilla has formally launched Firefox Monitor, a privacy-engineered website that hooks up to Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) breach notification database.

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Malware hits fashion giant SHEIN; 6.42 million online shoppers affected

The online fashion store is now contacting affected users and asking them to change passwords for their online store accounts.

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Finally, a fix for the encrypted web’s Achilles’ heel

Everyone knew that SNI needed to be fixed sooner or later, but nobody was quite sure how.

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Microsoft is killing passwords one announcement at a time

Windows 10 and Office 365 users can now log in to Azure AD applications using only the Authenticator App.

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Domain flub leaves 30 million customers high and dry

Zoho's CEO begged for help on Twitter after his domain registrar effectively took the company offline, stranding millions of users.

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Facebook scolds police for using fake accounts to snoop on citizens

Put down that “Bob Smith” fake account and back off, Facebook told the Memphis Police Department, waving its real-names policy in the air.

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Millions of Twitter DMs may have been exposed by year-long bug

Though the bug was present for over a year, Twitter hasn't found any DMs or protected tweets that were delivered to the wrong developer.

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Users fret over Chrome auto-login change

Users were complaining this week after discovering they'd been logged in to Google’s Chrome browser automatically, after logging into a Google website.

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AdGuard adblocker resets passwords after credential-stuffing attack

AdGuard has taken the decision to reset all user accounts after suffering a credential-stuffing and brute-force password attack.

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Wendy’s faces class action over collecting staff fingerprints

Two former Wendy’s employees want to know what the company does with employee fingerprints collected by biometric clocks.

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Woman hijacked CCTV cameras days before Trump inauguration

The ransomware attack on DC's outdoor surveillance cameras came just a few days before the 2017 inauguration of President Trump.

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Bankrupt NCIX customer data resold on Craigslist

What happens to sensitive customer data when a large company that has collected it over many years suddenly goes bust?

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Facebook faces sanctions if it drags its feet on data transparency

The EU justice commissioner said she's out of patience. Also, she quit Facebook because it's a "channel of dirt."

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App developers are STILL allowed to read your Gmails

Google is still allowing third-party developers access to access its users’ Gmail data, it said in a letter to Senators last week.

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Police accidentally tweet bookmarks that reveal surveilled groups

The Massachusetts State Police (MSP) accidentally spilled some of its opsec onto Twitter last week, uploading a screenshot that revealed browser bookmarks.

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iTunes is assigning you a ‘trust score’ based on emails and phone calls

It's just a number to detect fraud, not a Black Mirror-esque score that's going to rate us all as social misfits unworthy of wedding invitations.

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Monday review – the hot 19 stories of the week

From iOS security updates to Netflix phishing attacks, catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.

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