Microsoft Windows 10 users were livid late last week after Microsoft mistakenly told them that their licenses were invalid.

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From the ‘Martinelli’ WhatsApp hoax to Facebook wanting to give your name to the weirdo next to you, and everything in between. Catch up with this and everything we wrote in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time!

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They expect to cuff hundreds of criminals who used the pricey phones, which were sold with the crypto app preinstalled.

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Think fast! You’ll only have up to 10 minutes to hit unsend: a lot stingier than the hour afforded by WhatsApp.

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Researchers have published details of a dangerous flaw in the way the hugely popular WooCommerce plugin interacts with WordPress that could allow an attacker with access to a single account to take over an entire site.

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Austin Thompson pleaded guilty on November 6 in a San Diego Federal court to knowingly causing damage to third-party computers.

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Here’s the latest Naked Security Podcast – enjoy!

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A security researcher has published a zero-day flaw in a commonly-used virtual machine management system without notifying the vendor, justifying it with a scathing critique of the infosecurity industry.

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Researchers have found that a smartphone and some smart number crunching can track people moving in their homes as they reflect radio waves.

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Having taken what it thought was a decisive swipe at the problem of “abusive” advertising a year ago, Google now says next month’s Chrome 71 will unleash an even tougher crackdown.

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