COMPUTING & GAMING

WIRED Weekender 31.08.2019 these are the biggest wired stories from the past week The PPI scandal spawned a spam empire that just won't quit As the PPI claims deadline loomed, the compensation industry was just getting started. Claims companies are preparing to take banks to court to pursue payments and are looking ...

Malicious websites hacked into iPhones for years For two years, malicious websites secretly installed spyware on any iPhone that loaded them, using previously unknown security vulnerabilities ( BBC News ). The exploit was  discovered  by Google Project Zero security researchers, who found that attackers were using 12 discrete vulnerabilities, mostly in Safari, to compromise devices. Once the malicious software had been implanted, it sent users' personal data back to the malware creators' server every 60 seconds, including contacts, images, GPS location information and data from apps such as Instagram, WhatsApp, Gmail, Hangouts and Tele...

Huawei's next flagship phone will ship without Google integration On September 18, Huawei is set to reveal its next flagship smartphone, the Mate 30, in Europe, but it'll launch without built-in access to the Google Play Store or any of Google's other apps and services ( Reuters ). A Google representative told  Reuters  that the Mate 30 "cannot be sold with licensed Google apps and services due to the U.S. ban on sales to Huawei" – a recent extension to a US trade ban only covers existing products. Android itself is open source, side-loading Google Play is usually trivial and Huawei is preparing its own app store for launc...