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Man posing as Hollywood superstar scams woman out of a ‘fortune’

She must have been star-struck, she said, after the fraudster hid behind the Fast & Furious star's photo and reached out from a fan page.

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NIST tool boosts chances of finding dangerous software flaws

NIST thinks it has reached an important milestone in complex software testing with something called Combinatorial Coverage Measurement (CCM).

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Cryptocurrency giants in $850m fraud allegations

The New York Attorney General has accused major cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and cryptocurrency Tether of an $850m fraud.

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Cops need warrant for both location history and phone pinging, says judge

It's one of the first location data privacy cases to grapple with the warrant and surveillance implications of the Carpenter decision.

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Piracy streaming apps are stuffed with malware

Researchers have found that hackers are exploiting vulnerable piracy streaming devices to steal credit card data or rope them into botnets.

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Monday review – the hot 17 stories of the week

From DNS over HTTPS to Microsoft's expiration policy - and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.

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NSA asks to end mass phone surveillance

The NSA has asked the White House to end its mass phone surveillance program because the work involved outweighs its intelligence value.

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Fingerprint glitch in passports swapped left and right hands

And just who, exactly, is going to pay for new passports if it's necessary? Danish police are chatting with Kube Data about that.

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Microsoft drops password expiration from Windows 10 security

Microsoft has recognised that users don't actually change their passwords when prompted, they just tweak them. And that doesn't help anyone.

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Cops can try suspect’s fingers on locked iPhones found at crime scene

A Massachusetts federal district judge gave cops a warrant to force-unlock iPhones with the suspect's fingers.

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ExtraPulsar backdoor based on leaked NSA code – what you need to know

A US security researcher has come up with an open-source Windows backdoor loosely based on NSA attack code that leaked back in 2017.

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Blochainbandit stole $54 million of Ethereum by guessing weak keys

Someone has been quietly pilfering Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency worth millions of dollars without anyone noticing or, apparently, caring.

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Atlanta Hawks fall prey to Magecart credit card skimming group

The Atlanta Hawks basketball team is recovering after a sophisticated cybercrime group hacked its ecommerce site and planted credit card skimming code on it.

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Teen sues Apple for $1 billion over Apple stores’ facial recognition

He claims that Apple allegedly uses the technology to spot shoplifters and that it falsely linked him to a series of Apple store thefts.

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Ex-student records himself using USB Killer to fry college computers

Vishwanath Akuthota faces a potential ten-year stretch after killing at least 66 computers at his former college.

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NYPD forgets to redact facial recognition docs, asks for them back

The privacy think tank had them for 20 days, and one of the docs was already displayed at a conference, but the NYPD is still clawing them back.

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Gunpoint domain hijack turns out to have been a family affair

The owner of State Snaps hired his cousin to break into the home of the owner of DoItForState.com to force him to transfer the domain.

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DNS over HTTPS is coming whether ISPs and governments like it or not

DNS over HTTPS (DoH), backed by Google, Mozilla and Cloudflare, is about to make web surveillance a lot more difficult.

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Phone fingerprint scanner fooled by chewing gum packet

A video has surfaced claiming to show someone unlocking a Nokia 9 by tapping a gum packet against the fingerprint scanner.

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Hotspot finder app blabs 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords

If you used WiFi Finder, your passwords to both public and private networks have been left online in an unprotected database.

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Once again, it’s 123456: the password that says ‘I give up’

A new survey says 46% of users find security confusing, which helps explain how that old clunker keeps popping to the top of breach lists.

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