Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Celebrity ‘extortion’: judge orders reality star to unlock her iPhone
The Miami case is just the latest in a line of cases where law enforcement has wanted to get at data stored on someone’s cellphone
Listen up: is this really who you think it is talking?
Lyrebird, an AI startup, can produce uncannily good versions of real people’s voices. What does it mean for identity fraud?
Majority of US Households Now Cellphone-Only, Government Says
The National Center for Health Statistics has released a report that says, for the first time in history, U.S. households with landlines are now in the minority. Network World reports: The second 6 months of 2016 was the first time…
Google Was Warned About This Week's Mass Phishing Email Attack Six Years Ago
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: For almost six years, Google knew about the exact technique that someone used to trick around one million people into giving away access to their Google accounts to hackers on Wednesday. Even…
Intel Announces Xeon Scalable Processor Family
MojoKid writes: Intel unveiled information regarding a new Xeon processor family today, some of which will be based on the company’s Skylake-SP architecture. Intel will have four levels of Xeon processors that scale with respect to feature support and core…
Dormant Diseases Frozen In the Ice Are Waking Up
boley1 writes: Like a plot from a Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) movie, evil is waking up as permafrost melts due to weather or natural, man-made, local, and/or global climate change. (Take your pick of any or all — doesn’t…
California Seeks To Tax Rocket Launches, Which Are Already Taxed
The state of California is looking into taxing its thriving rocket industry. The Franchise Tax Board has issued a proposed regulation for public comment that would require companies that launch spacecraft to pay a tax based upon “mileage” traveled by…
Unpatched WordPress Password Reset Vulnerability Lingers
A zero day vulnerability exists in WordPress Core that in some instances, could allow an attacker to reset a user’s password and in turn, gain access to their account.
Blackmoon Banking Trojan Using New Infection Technique
Security researchers say the Blackmoon banking Trojan targeting exclusively South Korean financial institutions has developed a new malware infection technique.