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The Zip Slip vulnerability – what you need to know

Thousands of projects affected by painful programming lapse

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Apple says no to Facebook’s tracking

Apple will stop Facebook and advertisers from tracking users across multiple sites (cross-site tracking), running their ads or embedding content such as ‘like’ buttons.

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Blocking facial recognition surveillance using AI

If AI is increasingly able to recognise and classify faces, then the only way to counter this creeping surveillance is to use another AI to defeat it. Thanks to the University of Toronto, this may soon be possible.

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Microsoft faces wrath of developers after GitHub acquisition

Microsoft's come a long way in the past 10 years, since former chief Steve Ballmer called open-source a malignant cancer.

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We won! Naked Security awarded Best Security Video Blog

In a glittering (well, we were in jeans, in a pub) awards ceremony we won Best Security Video Blog at the European Security Blogger Awards.

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Bizarre Chrome and Firefox flaw exposed Facebook details

Researchers have discovered a weakness in the way Chrome and Firefox interact with CSS3 that could have caused them to leak usernames, profile pictures and likes from sites such as Facebook.

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Facebook defends practice of giving deep data access to device makers

They're not "outsiders," Facebook says. They're part of Facebook, helping to make Facebook play nicely with their devices.

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Google says fix for ‘weird’ 1975 text message bug is on the way

As of Monday, you could still see recent texts by searching on the string "the1975..com".

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Apple lifts two-month ban on Telegram updates in iOS store

Apple was blocking updates globally since Russian authorities ordered the company to remove the encrypted messaging app from the App Store.

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Cloudflare mistakes own 1.1.1.1 DNS for DDoS attack

When is a DDoS attack not a DDoS attack? When it's caused by your own recently-launched DNS service.

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Facebook faces furious shareholders at annual meeting

They accused execs of human rights violations, compared Zuckerberg to Vladimir Putin, and challenged his "corporate dictatorship."

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Going to Infosec Europe? Grab yourself a goody bag

Use the phrase that pays and grab a bag of goodies for free!

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Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week

From Android apps sending unencrypted data and the 1 good reason to get the iOS 11.4 update to Wayback Machine ‘unarchives’ spying website, and more!

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Artist rigs up Google Assistant to (sometimes) fire a gun on command

"A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." But, what if a robot breaks the first law of robotics?

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Doctor sues patient for $1m over bad online reviews

The patient claims to have gone for a free checkup, and came out with a $427 bill, plus a $1300 bill to her insurance company.

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SpamCannibal comes back to life, starts spam-blocking everyone

SpamCannibal returns from the dead to fail all spam queries sent to it - essentially telling you to "block the world".

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We found 1 good reason to get the iOS 11.4 update – rogue message handling

We're going entirely on deduction here, but our iPhone seems to be handling "messages of death" more safely after we updated to iOS 11.4.

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How to set up 2FA on eBay – go do it now!

Thankfully, since we first reported on it, eBay has binned its cumbersome 2FA procedure and replaced it a much easier process.

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European Commission “doesn’t plan to comply with GDPR” – well, sort of

Apparently, due to legal weirdness, GDPR doesn't apply to the EC itself. What to do? Shout at the bureaucrats or be cool about it?

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Hoax alert! Starbucks is NOT inviting you to test its shatterproof windows

Need a jolt? Leave the rocks at home, and bring cash instead. The hoaxsters are full of dark caramel whipped cream crappuccino!

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Apple’s iOS 11.4 security update arrives in an iCloud of silence

We updated to iOS 11.4, because that's our habit - but Apple still isn't saying what was fixed yet. How we wish Apple wouldn't do that!

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