Monday review – the hot 17 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we’ve written in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.
General interest
• Facebook privacy, Google security bug, Law Enforcement victories – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
• Sophos honoured with Partnership Award by Queensland Police
• Nokia is dead. Long live Nokia!
• US Army ignores shared PC login flaw, asks soldiers to keep quiet
Hacking and scams
• Anatomy of a phish – a “generic mass targeted attack” against WordPress admins
Law and order
• 15 years jail time for Romanian card heist ringleader, 5 for light-fingered company president
• Lawyers report steep rise in employee data theft cases
• Cyberextortion by US gov, or simple P2P security lapse by medical firm?
Social networks
• Has Facebook violated its 2011 Federal Trade Commission settlement?
• Does posting photos of your child on Facebook make you a bad parent? [POLL]
• Another 5 tips to help keep you safe on Facebook
• Twitter makes good on promise to make abuse reports easier and more obvious
• Facebook vulnerability that allowed any photo to be deleted earns $12,500 bounty
Cryptography
• Faces, gestures, heartbeats – how will the passwords of the future work?
OS and software
• Get ready: Microsoft Patch Tuesday looms large with 14 patches and 8 remote code execution holes
• Google coding glitch locks Apple iOS users out of on-line accounts
Privacy and online safety
• Database of illegal downloaders – are British ISPs to become the “music NSA”?
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