Microsoft calls zero-day releases ‘never justifiable’ as researcher threatens to drop more

A batch of security and crime reports: a researcher published multiple zero-day vulnerabilities with working proof-of-concept code to GitHub and threatened further releases, prompting Microsoft to call such disclosures 'never justifiable'; cruise operator Carnival confirmed a data breach impacting nearly 6 million people after an attacker compromised an employee account and copied personal information; a Canadian man was sentenced to 33 years for using fake social media identities to coerce US children into sending sexual content; a Chinese-speaking fraud gang has registered over 4,300 domains