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DDoS attack pummels Luxembourg state servers
Attack has been ongoing since Monday with no indication of who is behind it

Nearly 1m Coachella user details potentially accessed in breach
Festivalgoers’ details allegedly for sale on the dark web, though Coachella says no financial details were exposed

Howard A Schmidt remembered as a ‘humble’ industry giant
Security industry and government heavyweight with time for everyone dies aged 67

MWC: These might be the droids you are looking for
While robots were very much part of this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, what’s increasingly clear is that AI and robotics are as much a part of your phone as they are of humanoid robots

Researcher uses Google’s speech tools to skewer Google reCAPTCHA
It’s not the first time Google’s own services have been used to trick the bot challenges – although a new version of reCAPTCHA coming soon should remove the annoyance of having to prove you’re not a robot

Apple pushing two-factor authentication for iOS 10.3 users
If you haven’t enabled 2FA on your iDevice, you’ll be getting a reminder to do so. And while you’re there, do it on your other devices, too.

Secrets of the Filecode ransomware revealed
Cryptography can be fun! Our resident cryptosplainer Paul Ducklin shows how to recover from the Filecode ransomware without paying up.

Amazon mega-outage caused by single command line error
Amazon’s detailed mea culpa reveals that it wasn’t a hacker or a rogue state plotting to bring down thousands of web services – a reassuring thought that makes the internet giant look, well, human

News in brief: Virginia greenlights delivery bots; Line to launch AI assistant; Uber seeks licence
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news