A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
Made a Fortune in BitCoin? Be careful who you tell.
From Naked Security – Crypto Coins Robbed at Gunpoint.
Good old fashioned stick-ups still a possibility.
Watch out – fake support scams are alive and well this Christmas
Fake support scams – where the crooks help you “remove” malware you don’t have – are still a real problem. Take care over the holidays!
5 Romanian ransomware distributors arrested after police raid
I often am asked why these crooks aren’t arrested. Well, they are, and here’s another account. Five suspects; two ransomware strains; victims identified in both Europe and the US – cops swoop!
GPS is off so you can’t be tracked, right? Wrong
It’s not just your GPS that gives away your location, researchers have discovered
Simple research tool detects 19 unknown data breaches
A security insight so simple you wonder why nobody has noticed it before.
Starbucks Wi-Fi hijacked customers’ laptops to mine cryptocoins
A 10-second delay when customers connected to the “free” Wi-Fi was harnessed for secret cryptocoin mining
What’s in your Android’s December security update?
Android has released two security bulletins for December containing mitigations and fixes for 47 vulnerabilities for all devices.
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