Cryptocurrency Mining Employees Expose Nuclear Plant to Internet

While the cybersecurity world took a collective deep breath after the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences, there was still plenty of news to be had this week. After first announcing an iOS-compatible YubiKey in January, Yubico has finally released it. We also took a deep dive into the security and privacy enhancements coming to Android 10, the first Android version to ditch the dessert naming system. You can jailbreak your iPhone again for the first time in years, but probably shouldn’t. And that’s just for starters!

As the robocall crisis rages on, state attorneys general and a dozen major telecoms finally decided to do something about it. Google, Mozilla, and Apple all fought back against Kazakhstan’s attempts to spy on its citizens’ encrypted internet traffic. China used fake accounts and state media to spread disinformation and denigrating comments about Hong Kong protestors across Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. And Facebook introduced a long-awaited privacy feature, but…