The week started with a figurative bang, as a list of questions Robert Mueller's team have for Trump leaked[1] to The New York Times. They all point to one inevitable conclusion: That Mueller almost certainly already knows how all of this ends[2].
Speaking of endings, Cambridge Analytica and its related companies shut down this week[3], the continued fallout of the revelation months ago that the company had improperly acquired the data of up to 87 million Facebook users[4] in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election. And your time with your Twitter password has hopefully come to and as well; you'll want to change it, since the company stored them in plaintext on internal logs[5].
We also took a look at a breakthrough in the famously clever Rowhammer attack, which takes advantage of how memory chips leak electricity, that now lets it remotely compromise some Android smartphones[6]. Nigerian email scammers are doing better than ever[7], thanks to cleverly targeting small businesses. And we separated the hype from the helpful in AI's role in cybersecurity[8].
And there's more! As always, we’ve rounded up all the news we didn’t break or cover in depth this week. Click on the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there.
Suspects Used a Drone Swarm to Disrupt an FBI Hostage Raid[9]
More than two years ago, we took a look at how consumer drones were increasingly going to pose a security threat[10]. We did not, though, predict that they would be used to swarm a hostage rescue team, as reportedly happened last winter in an unspecified US city. The drones surrounded