The news of the week is discussed, including the Gmail/Google Docs phishing attack, the Intel AMT vulnerability, IBM’s malware-laden USB drives, and drone security.

More than 200 Android mobile applications listen surreptitiously for ultrasonic beacons embedded in audio that are used to track users and serve them with targeted advertising.

Microsoft shuts down hackers who hijacked a software updater with fileless, or in-memory, malware attacks.

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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

Lyrebird, an AI startup, can produce uncannily good versions of real people’s voices. What does it mean for identity fraud?

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…

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…

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…

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…