The End of Passwords
This week in the WeeklyNewsRoundup, Google releases some updates to privacy controls, and they fight to end the password. Also, there is a new malicious wordpress plugin...but no one knows what it is! We also visit SillyVille.

The Articles

Privacy
https://news.itsfoss.com/cloudflare-captcha-replacement/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/06/mps-and-peers-call-for-immediate-stop-to-live-facial-recognition-surveillance

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/10/23andme

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/12/google-updates-privacy-controls-browsing-history-password-manager/

Security
https://securityaffairs.com/152124/malware/badbox-network-backdoored-firmware.html

https://securityaffairs.com/152387/cyber-crime/magecart-default-404-error-page.html

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/thousands-of-wordpress-sites-have-been-hit-by-another-major-plugin-flaw-find-out-if-youre-at-risk

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/10/backdoor-masquerading-as-legitimate-plugin/

Business
https://www.techradar.com/phones/starlinks-new-cellular-service-lets-you-stay-connected-even-off-the-grid

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/10/deta-wants-to-reinvent-personal-computers-with-a-new-cloud-os/

https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/10/wordpress-com-officially-supports-activitypub-expanding-blog-reach-to-federated-platforms/

https://www.wired.com/story/google-passkey-default/

Silly
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/22-year-old-firefox-tooltip-bug-fixed-in-a-few-lines-offering-hope-to-us-all/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/google-open-sourced-a-hat-shaped-like-a-giant-keycap-and-it-actually-types/

https://www.techradar.com/pro/sneak-attack-from-feline-friend-wipes-us-government-server-with-cat-astrophic-impact-human-technician-cat-egorically-denies-involvement

https://notthebee.com/article/microsoft-did-what-to-bing-after-it-created-what/