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From same old, same old Facebook hoaxes to PewDiePie's Chromecast-hacking fans, here are the top stories of the new year.

Today, we publish the VB2018 paper by Chronicle researcher Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, who argues we should change the way we talk about APT actors.

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Plus, London Gatwick drone comedy quiets down

Welcome to 2019, just a few days into the year and we already have Chromecast chaos, Skype backdoors, and a Weather Channel privacy suit.…

Novel data-siphoning attack is hardware agnostic

Some of the computer security boffins who revealed last year's data-leaking speculative-execution holes have identified yet another side-channel attack that can bypass security protections in modern systems.…

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A new phishing campaign that uses a custom font to hide its tracks and evade detection has been uncovered.…

'Privacy in the digital age is one of the most fundamental issues' says city attorney

The Weather Channel app duped users into providing location data that the company then sold for advertising and other commercial purposes, according to a lawsuit brought by Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer.…

The lawsuit alleges that the Weather Channel app misled users about why it was collecting their (extremely precise) geolocation data.

Plus an extra 20m passport digits and 8.6m payment card details, though encrypted

Hotel megachain Marriott International has gone into further detail on the cyber-raid on its reservation database, including the number of payment cards and passport details siphoned off by hackers.…

Here's what you need to know about Facebook hoaxes, all in plain English.

The hotel giant said after de-duping, the breach appears to be smaller than it thought.

The phishing campaign is using a new technique to hide the source code of its landing page - and stealing credentials from customers of a major U.S.-based bank.

It's not clear why the data release wasn't noticed earlier.

Politicians, journalists and other public figures targeted

German politicians, journalists and other prominent public figures have been doxxed by hackers who distributed their personal data on Twitter, according to local reports.…

First they came for your printer... and then they came for your Chromecast - learn how to tighten up your router security.

A new presentation shows how vein authentication systems can be fooled using a fake wax hand model.

An unscheduled patch fixed two critical flaws that could enable arbitrary code execution.

Rewards on 15 bug bounty programs start at $28,600 and include open source software such as KeePass, FileZilla, Drupal and VLC media player.

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A newly disclosed vulnerability in Skype for Android could be exploited by miscreants to bypass an Android phone's passcode screen to view photos, contacts, and even launch browser windows.…

All of the vulnerabilities arise from improper input validations.

Pair of critical flaws cleaned up in Acrobat, Reader

Adobe has issued its first patch of the year, emitting fixes for a pair of high-risk vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader.…