Security
Uber manager raised concerns about self-driving vehicle programme five days before fatal Uber crash in Arizona
Uber manager complained about series of near misses by autonomous vehicles that had not been properly investigated
Microsoft issues Patch Tuesday fixes for 39 vulnerabilities
Privilege escalation bug already being exploited in the wild
New AI tool can easily crack text captcha schemes
The program solves a text captcha within 0.05 second using a desktop graphics processing unit
Japanese government cyber security minister can't even use a computer
Also, what's a USB stick?
Government plan to extend porn site age-checks to social media
Delays to the roll-out of age verification for adult websites hasn't stopped government from considering extending them to more websites
Amazon Alexa to present evidence in double murder case
It's the second time that Alexa has been called on to testify in a court case
Side channel attacks on graphics processors can enable hackers to spy on web activity and steal passwords
The GPU-based attacks are enabled after the victim downloads an app with a malicious programme
Global internet freedom declines as governments use online censorship to suppress dissent - Freedom House
Where China leads, other authoritarian regimes are following, Freedom House warns
Governments defines IoT Code of Practice to make security built-in, not bolt-on
HP and Centrica are the first industry partners to sign up to the government's new Code
Latest Privacy Badger roots out Google link tracking
Link tracking is a sneaky way of following users as they leave a site via a weblink
Russian military intelligence accused of a series of cyber attacks around the world
Russia's GRU compromised by laptops carried around the world by its agents
Facebook: No evidence hackers accessed third-party apps
Facebook developing tool to enable third-party apps that use it for authentication to check for themselves
Facebook admits security breach affecting 50 million accounts
Security flaw discovered this week enabled attackers to take over accounts, warns Facebook
Google backtracks over automatic Chrome browser sign-in
Google will keep its eyes on users in other ways
Tesco Bank could be hit with £30m fine for 2016 cyber attacks
Tesco wrangling with FCA over size of fine
ICO issues its first GDPR fine
The ICO is concerned with AggregateIQ's retention and processing of data used in the Brexit referendum
Amazon investigating staff bribery claims over reviews and leaked sales data
WSJ claims that staff have rubbed out bad reviews for $300 per review
European Parliament votes in favour of tough new online copyright laws
Copyright Directive will put "an end to the digital wild west", claims European Parliament president Antonio Tajani
MPs plan laws to open up closed internet groups claiming they fuel extremism and hate
Facebook, WhatsApp groups, and Slack groups groups could all fall under the new Online Forums Bill
Ticketmaster attackers also behind British Airways breach
Magecart cyber criminals behind payment-page breaches at THOUSANDS of companies, warns RiskIQ
North Korean charged by US over WannaCry, Sony Pictures and other cyber attacks
US Department of Justice indictment paints comprehensive picture of Park Jon Hyok
British Airways security breach compromises 380,000 credit cards
Latest in a long line of IT disasters and security breaches at the bork-prone carrier
TSB IT disaster: CEO Paul Pester leaves following new weekend IT outage
Pester leaves after seven years at the helm following repeated IT failures
Yahoo is abusing your forgotten email account
Abandoning Ymail to spam has, if anything, increased its value