Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news
Spectacular $81m bank cyberheist ‘was not a one-off’
Millions lost in further attacks on Swift banking system
Apple ships iOS 10.2, fixes ‘Find my iPhone’ hole plus five lockscreen bugs
The latest iOS update fixes the ‘Find my iPhone’ Authentication Lock hole that made headlines recently, plus another five lockscreen bugs.
Netgear router remote control bug – what you need to know
Some Netgear routers can be remotely controlled by booby-trapped web pages. Here’s how to deal with the problem.
SamB spreads the message about surveillance via rap
Revenge of the Black Nerds’ pro-Fourth Amendment rap reminds us that Americans have an ‘ever-growing list of things to be freaked out about’
Smart devices abandoned on the road to nowhere
As Fitbit acquires Pebble, placing those smartwatches on the IoT-bricked road, we ask: shouldn’t manufacturers do more to secure devices they’re phasing out?
Macs get critical updates, including patches against drive-by malware
Apple has pushed out patches for numerous critical vulnerabilities on macOS, including bugs that could allow drive-by installs of malware.
New York exhibition puts us – and our data – on display
The Glass Room looks like a gleaming, all-white Apple store, but they’re not selling anything – they’re showing us how our data is used
Google Publishes Eight National Security Letters
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google dropped a single National Security Letter into its most recent transparency report without much fanfare, but today the company published eight more NSLs in an attempt to shed more light on…
AMD Unveils First Zen Desktop Processor Details, Picks 'Ryzen' To Brand Zen CPU
MojoKid writes from a report via HotHardware: AMD has just officially unveiled that desktop variants of its Zen processor family will now be branded RYZEN. Zen-based processors will eventually target desktops, servers, and mobiles device, but the first wave of…