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1. Wannacry-slayer Marcus Hutchins pleads guilty to two counts of banking malware creation

   'I regret these actions and accept full responsibility for my mistakes'

   Marcus Hutchins, the British security researcher who shot to fame after successfully halting the Wannacry ransomware epidemic, has pleaded guilty to crafting online bank-account-raiding malware.…

2. Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance

   Boffins from Belgium break people recognition software with a colorful placard

   A trio of Belgium-based boffins have created a ward that renders wearers unrecognizable to software trained to detect people.…

3. Not one of the 12 steps: Rehab patients' details exposed in publicly visible database

   Researcher disturbed at availability of very personal data

   More than two years of billing records from a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center were made freely available on the internet, a security researcher has discovered.…

4. Old-school cruel: Dodgy PDF email attachments enjoying a renaissance

   Let's go back... way back

   The last few months have seen a big increase in malware attacks using PDF email attachments, according to security firm SonicWall.…

5. We've read the Mueller report. Here's what you need to know: ██ ██ ███ ███████ █████ ███ ██ █████ ████████ █████

   Trump predicted he was 'fucked' – but he hadn't reckoned on ██████████

   Analysis  It's 448 pages of which roughly 50 have been blacked out.…

6. Who's using Mueller Report Day to bury bad news? If you guessed Facebook, you're right: Millions more passwords stored in plaintext

   Wham, bam, gee thanks, Instagram

   While journalists and netizens are distracted digesting the redacted 400-plus-page Mueller report, released within the past few hours, today will be a good day for spin doctors to bury bad news.…

7. Facebook: Yeah, we hoovered up 1.5 million email address books without permission. But it was an accident!

   So that's all OK then

   Facebook has admitted to harvesting email contacts from 1.5 million people without permission.…

8. Google hits brand slam stamping AMP with more crypto glam

   All your URLs are belong to us

   On Tuesday Google renovated its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) web publishing format, making it more secure with less Chocolate Factory branding – a change certain to be welcomed by publishers committed to AMP.…

9. Insane in the domain: Sea Turtle hackers pwn DNS orgs to dash web surfers on the rocks of phishing pages

   Website settings altered to point visitors to malicious clones

   Internet domain registrars and at least one registry were hijacked to change certain websites' DNS settings so that visitors to said sites were in fact directed to password-stealing phishing pages, researchers detailed on Wednesday.…

10. Enough about me, why do you hate Kaspersky so much? Revealed: Insp Clouseau-esque bid to smear critics as shills

    Please speak clearly for the tape... I mean, my ears

    Interview  A gauche "spy" has made clumsy efforts to get critics of Russian antivirus biz Kaspersky Lab to incriminate themselves as shills for rival security companies.…