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Police bust their own radio shop manager for dodgy software updates

Police allege that he updated radios with fraudulent software from a radio enthusiast who allegedly hacked encrypted radios for drug cartels.

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Millions of utilities customers’ passwords stored in plain text

Plain-text, unencrypted passwords were sent instead of having users reset them. There was no breach, the firm claims, but how would it know?

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Mozilla fears encryption law could turn its employees into insider threats

Mozilla has told the Australian government that its anti-encryption laws could turn its own employees into insider threats.

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Facebook apps secretly sending sensitive data back to the mothership

New York governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered an investigation into how Facebook is still allowing blabby apps to violate its privacy policies.

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Android nudges passwords closer to the cliff edge with FIDO2 support

Android's now on board with saying goodbye to passwords: more than a billion devices now support FIDO2.

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Missile warning sent from hijacked Tampa mayor’s Twitter account

Tampa's mayor was trying to regain control of his Twitter account this week after it was used to post bomb threats and child sex abuse images.

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Facebook tricked kids into in-game purchases, say privacy advocates

Unsealed court documents show that Facebook referred to big-spending kids as "whales" - a term borrowed from the casino industry.

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Adobe patches the same critical Reader flaw twice in one week

Adobe has issued a new fix addressing a vulnerability in Reader it thought it had fixed on 12 February as part of Patch Tuesday.

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Monday review – the hot 23 stories of the week

From leaky password managers to nearly 100 million new stolen data records, and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.

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Nike’s $350 “Back to the Future” trainers crash, have feet of brick

Have you ever needed to boot a shoe that was a brick? Owners of Nike's $350 "self-lacing" trainers say they have.

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Pedos pollute YouTube comments on kids’ videos, advertisers flee

Can YouTube ever keep video comments under control, or it is time to kill off comments altogether?

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Microsoft fixes web server DDoS bug

Overzealous use of HTTP/2 flow control settings in IIS could have brought servers to their knees.

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Flash “security bypass” list hidden in Microsoft Edge browser

Until this month, the Edge browser could bypass its own warnings about Flash content on 58 websites, thanks to a hidden list.

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Facebook lets Android users block location tracking

Facebook announced it's tweaking its Android version, which was tracking your location even when the app wasn't in use.

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Bluetooth “gas station” warning on Facebook – truth or hoax? [VIDEO]

Can your phone reliably detect card skimmers using Bluetooth alone? Find out in the latest Naked Security Live video...

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Password managers leaking data in memory, but you should still use one

Several popular password managers appear to do a weak job at scrubbing passwords from memory once they are no longer being used.

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Hacker Lauri Love denied bid to get computers back

Hacker Lauri Love has failed to get his computers back six years after UK’s National Crime Agency took them as part of a criminal investigation.

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Sorry, we didn’t mean to keep that secret microphone a secret, says Google

It's been off by default, Google says - not much consolation to those who don't cotton to the notion of a "secret" listening gadget.

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Can you really sniff out gas station card skimmers with your phone?

A viral post suggests (wrongly) that card skimmers always use Bluetooth. Anyway, just looking at nearby Bluetooth names doesn't help much...

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Ep. 020 – Leaky containers, careless coders and risky USB cables [PODCAST]

Here's the latest Naked Security podcast... enjoy!

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Hackers unleash social media worm after bug report ignored

Is it ok to launch a benign proof of concept that you know will go wide, to bring a flaw to people's attention, or should you stay quiet?

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