Monday review
Catch up with everything we’ve written in the last seven days with our handy roundup.
General interest
• Lady Gaga rallies Little Monsters against Applause ‘hackers’
• Apple apps turned upside down writing right to left – you’re only 6 characters from a crash!
• Anatomy of a dropped call – how to jam a city with 11 customised mobile phones
• Whistleblower-friendly site Cryptome booted briefly offline for hosting “malicious content”
• SSCC 115 – XP “as a giant 0-day”, choosing and remembering passwords, and next-gen HTTP [PODCAST]
• Facebook transparency, Apple bugs, SEA DDoSes itself – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Hacking and scams
• Secure Google Docs email results in mailbox compromise
• Google Palestine hijacked: hackers say rename Israel to Palestine, listen to RiRi
• Syrian Electronic Army brings down Twitter and The New York Times through domain name provider hack
Law and order
• Leak of kids’ social services info earns Aberdeen City Council £100k fine
• Internet dating scam – mother and daughter crime duo jailed
• Facebook pays out $20 million in personal ads settlement; each user gets $15
Social networks
• Facebook to include profile photos in its facial recognition database?
• Schools hire snoopers to monitor kids on social networks. Is it OK? [POLL]
• Surprise! First ever Facebook “Government Requests” report reveals the most inquisitive authorities
OS and software
• Apple neglects OS X privilege escalation bug for six months, gets Metasploit on its case…
Privacy and online safety
• Tor usage doubles in August. New privacy-seeking users or botnet?
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