We’ve been sharing our favourite and most thought provoking articles this week on twitter using #WhatWeAreReadingToday.
If you missed any throughout the last week or you are just looking for something interesting to read, take a look at this week’s articles:
25th April – 29th April:
Swift: fraudulent messages sent over international bank transfer system – Guardian
Samsung’s little black box will hot-wire your car to the internet. Eek! – The Register
FreshTeam Is A Productivity App That Lets Your Boss Track Your Location – Huffington Post
Blame the victim: Report shows fifth of data breaches caused by “miscellaneous errors” – ArsTechnica
Animal Spirits: Young ones too engrossed in their phones to behave badly – Sunday Times (£)
Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods – The Register
Two Tips to Keep Your Phone’s Encrypted Messages Encrypted – Wired
18th April – 22nd April:
Your phone number is all a hacker needs to read texts, listen to calls and track you – Guardian
Let’s have an honest debate about encryption – CapX
How to see all the terrifying things Google knows about you – Telegraph
‘I hacked Facebook – and found someone had beaten me to it’ – The Register
Passwords, phones and privacy settings: how to protect yourself online – Guardian
Employees Still Send Over 100 Personal Messages At Work Despite Court Ruling – Huffington Post
Snafu! BT funnels all customers’ sent email into one poor sod’s inbox – The Register
Don’t own your metadata? Prepare to get owned – Wired UK
11th April – 15th April:
Half a billion identities were stolen or exposed online in 2015 – Wired UK
Your face is big data – BBC
This Video Perfectly Explains The Encryption Debate – Motherboard
European Parliament adopts tough new data protection rules – TechCrunch
Data breach hits 15,000 online users of UK childbirth charity – ArsTechnica
Surrey now has the UK’s ‘largest’ police drone project – Wired UK
4th April – 8th April:
China’s Great Firewall inventor forced to use VPN live on stage to dodge his own creation – The Register
Travelled to the US in the last 20 years? Your identity is at risk – Telegraph
CNBC Tried, and Massively Failed, to Teach People About Password Security – Motherboard
Database allegedly containing ID numbers of 50m Turks posted online – Guardian
With Hospital Ransomware Infections, the Patients Are at Risk – CapX/MIT Technology Review
How CERN Fights Hackers – Motherboard
Spy Tool Ruling Inches the Stingray Debate Closer to the Supreme Court – Wired
FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years – Motherboard
Keep an eye on our Twitter feed for more articles each day.