Happy New Year! Welcome to Zintel PR's Top 10 Technology Headlines for the week of December 31. Be sure to click-through for the full text of each article, and stay tuned for updated headlines every Friday.
New York Times: Marriott Concedes 5 Million Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted
By: David E. Sanger
Wall Street Journal: Popular Weather App Collects Too Much User Data, Security Experts Say
By: Newley Purnell
Wired: The Elite Intel Team Still Fighting Meltdown And Spectre
By: Lily Hay Newman
TechRadar: Fingerprint Scanners Are Now Being Used To Unlock And Start Your Car
By John McCann
Reuters: Cyber Researcher Pulls Public Talk On Hacking Apple's Face ID
By: Jim Finkle, Chris Nellis
SecurityWeek: Ryuk Ransomware Suspected in U.S. Newspaper Attack
By: Eduard Kovacs
SC Magazine: Researchers Claim Serious Vulnerabilities In Hardware Cryptocurrency Wallets
By: Robert Abel
The Verge: How Bitcoin Grew Up And Became Big Money
By: Elizabeth Lopatto
Wired: Blockchain Can Wrest The Internet From Corporations' Grasp
By: Chris Dixon
By: Chris O'Brien
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