https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/12/13/we-broke-into-a-bunch-of-android-phones-with-a-3d-printed-head/

For all four Android phones, the spoof face was able to open the phone, though with differing degrees of ease. The iPhone X was the only one to never be fooled.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/13/18139724/bitcoin-bomb-threat-scam-email-us-police-department-investigation-evacuations

Spammers are sending a wave of threats to businesses, schools, and other locations in English-speaking countries across the world, demanding bitcoin in exchange for not detonating a supposed bomb.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-navy-is-struggling-to-fend-off-chinese-hackers-officials-say-11544783401

An intelligence official said that subcontractors across the entire military were lagging behind in cybersecurity and frequently suffered breaches that affected other branches.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/05/bt-removing-huawei-equipment-from-parts-of-4g-network

Head of MI6 had questioned Chinese firm’s involvement in UK telecoms infrastructure

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/14/facebook-photo-bug/

The bug allowed apps users had approved to pull their timeline photos to also receive their Facebook Stories, Marketplace photos, and most worryingly, photos they’d uploaded to Facebook but never shared.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/microsoft-login-bug-hijack-office-accounts/

A string of bugs when chained together created the perfect attack to gain access to someone’s Microsoft account — simply by tricking a user into clicking a link.

https://gizmodo.com/u-s-customs-fails-to-delete-personal-data-after-electr-1831006534

regularly leaving the personal data of travelers on USB drives.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612559/the-record-for-high-temperature-superconductivity-has-been-smashed-again/

Eremets and his colleagues say they have observed lanthanum hydride (LaH10) superconducting at the sweltering temperature of 250 K, or –23 °C.

https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134541/google-plus-privacy-api-data-leak-developers

the new vulnerability impacted 52.5 million users, who could have had profile information like their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed […] even if their account was set to private.