Your daily round up of what else is in the news
Facebook users want to continue posting from beyond the grave
What should happen to your online life after your death?
Dismay as ‘snooper’s charter’ finally becomes law
Critics fear a surveillance state while tech firms question new law’s unintended effects
News in brief: Muni hacker is hacked; Facebook warned over data sharing; spy agency releases data tool
Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news
America wonders what path Trump will tread on cybersecurity
Industry professionals say the president-elect’s penchant for the unpredictable could be bad – or good – for Internet security
‘Ransomware’ attack halts payments on San Francisco Muni network
Cable cars and other services kept calm and carried on while attacker demanded ransom of 100 Bitcoins
The Tor Phone prototype: a truly private smartphone?
Security-focused Android fork only available for a few of Google’s Nexus and Pixel phones – for now
Concern over FBI operation to catch users of darkweb site
Campaigners raise concerns over scope of FBI’s single warrant obtained from a Virginia judge
Guest post: Cybersecurity school to open at Bletchley Park, home of the wartime codebreakers
Dr Sue Black, author of ‘Saving Bletchley Park’, welcomes the new cybersecurity school being set up at Bletchley Park, the iconic wartime codebreaking centre
Windows 10 still needs EMET exploit protection, US CERT tells Microsoft
Doubts raised over Microsoft’s plans to discontinue threat mitigation tool in 2018