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Researchers found that brains react to acronyms in a way that's unique to each individual. Ready to slap some electrodes on your head?

Nimble-fingered crooks can exploit the one-second lag before Watch senses it's off a wrist and asks for a passcode.

Our latest weekly security podcast - the VENOM bug, iris recognition, a spyware company breach, and ID trouble at the Passport Agency. Happy listening!

Tech firms and cryptologists lobby the Obama administration, urging resistance to the implementation of backdoors in popular software.

The latest visual meme in ransomware comes from a cult TV show...about ficticious crooks. Paul Ducklin walks you through "PolloCrypt," more correctly known as Troj/LPoLock-A...

Parents can't opt out, regardless of any privacy concerns. Let's hope they don't get hit by an mSpy-esque data breach.

Let's make sure that highly valuable account stays all you, all the time, without anyone else getting their mitts on it - at least, until somebody else becomes POTUS!

We've been nominated, Dear Readers, in two categories in the European Security Blogger Awards. Anyone can vote...and we'd love you to vote for us: Naked Security for "Best Blog" and the Chet Chat for "Best European Podcast."

A collection of 65 advocacy organisations from around the world have published an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg about Internet.org, calling it a walled garden for the world's poorest people.

Baton Bob alleged that police forced him to hand over his login before they posted a positive Facebook post about how they treated him during an arrest.

Password resets are a necessary evil, but they're best avoided however they are done. And you don't get to use the word "hacked" if you use and reuse weak passwords!

The biggest victims of the mSpy 'hack' are likely to be those who were unaware their sensitive data was being logged in the first place.

Back in 2005, a youngster called Samy Kamkar wrote a JavaScript virus for MySpace. This time, he's made a DIY lock-picking robot - and you can make one too, if you like.

United Airlines is offering up to 1 million free air miles in a new bug bounty program that rewards hackers who discover security flaws in the airline's websites, apps and databases.

Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.

The latest episode of our weekly "security news in one minute" video. Enjoy...

Part of the mobile website of the Washington Post was compromised briefly on Thursday by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacker group, in an attack that redirected traffic to a site with anti-US and anti-media messages.

A UK man has been given a non-custodial sentence this week, after a ransomware infection on his computer led him to report himself to police. The man's computer held several hundred animal porn images, described in court as "extreme" and "revolting".

Reddit has vowed to take a more active role in protecting its members from personal attacks and online harassment.

A week of many patches, Lenovo in the news again, an anti-forensic tool with a misleading name, and the rudely-named "sport" of Fusking. Listen to our latest straight-talking security podcast...