Security News This Week: Nasty Microsoft Word Booby Trap Loaded PCs With Malware

Published: April 18, 2017, 8:59 a.m.

It feels like all weeks in security news are overstuffed lately, and this one's no exception. It started with a bang, or more of a blare, as all of Dallas's dozens of tornado sirens were hacked to sound off at once. And it ended with a boom, as the US dropped the Moab ('Mother of All Bombs,' colloquially), a 22,600 pound bomb, for the first time.