Amazon is open for business a tax-break near you.

White House believes chief of staff’s personal phone was hacked: report

Yahoo admits every account was compromised.

In 2016, Yahoo disclosed that more than one billion of about three billion accounts had likely been affected by the hack. In its disclosure Tuesday, the company said all accounts were likely victimized.

‘Terrified’ 60-year-old woman told to pay up for illegally downloading porn
Edit: Just to reinforce the lessons of the article, the demand for payment is legit, although unethical. The woman supposedly had her machine cracked, vector unknown. A file-sharing program was installed without her knowledge and it was sharing copyright material.
It’s the cost of being online. Buy/subscribe to anti-malware/anti-virus programs. Keep your machines up to date, upgrade the machines if the OS goes out of date.

I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets
H/T, karen

A version of Piriform’s CCleaner was injected with a trojan during the build.

Based on further analysis, we found that the 5.33.6162 version of CCleaner and the 1.07.3191 version of CCleaner Cloud was illegally modified before it was released to the public, and we started an investigation process. We also immediately contacted law enforcement units and worked with them on resolving the issue. Before delving into the technical details, let me say that the threat has now been resolved in the sense that the rogue server is down, other potential servers are out of the control of the attacker, and we’re moving all existing CCleaner v5.33.6162 users to the latest version.

Well, maybe not every one, but probably. The downside of Kate’s flip-phone is that it can’t really be updated. Enter Blueborn.
Youtube video explaining the threat.

One of the features on Apple’s latest model includes using face recognition to talk as the poop emoji and send it in a text message.

Heroes come from everywhere.

I sat up and turned on my light. I timidly pushed the “talk” button and said, “I can.”

It’s a biggie.

“This is massive,” said Paul Martini, chief executive officer of Iboss, a cybersecurity firm. “This overshadows any other breach that we’ve seen to date — not just the volume, the size, but the type of data that was in that database.”

Vermont is the most toxic state in the union.
Hmm, isn’t one of their senators mildly famous for something?
H/t: Tim (The Troll) in Vermont

Just built that great new app? Looking to cash in a bit with ads?
Just download and link our SDK and all your base belong to us.

See the cool kids lined up outside that new restaurant? This app pays them to stand there.
h/t Karen

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The exposed data includes the names, addresses, account information, email addresses, and last four digits of credit card numbers of millions of subscribers to Dow Jones publications like The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s. Also exposed in the cloud leak were the details of 1.6 million entries in a suite of databases known as Dow Jones Risk and Compliance, a set of subscription-only corporate intelligence programs used largely by financial institutions for compliance with anti-money laundering regulations.

Petya, GoldenEye or NotPetya as the case may be is spreading quickly across Europe with other isolated pockets around the world.
Keep your systems updated, keep regular, offline, backups of your data, use commercial anti-virus.

Not much meat in the article to justify this headline, but still:

British Airways boss ‘tries to gag staff’ over IT failure which hit 300,000 passengers after ‘inexperienced staff outsourced to India didn’t know to launch back up system’

If true, no surprise. IT is and always will be thought of as a cost centre in business. I have some trepidation about the mass movement in business to more and more network based (read: cloud, off-shore administration) focused technologies.