Monday review – the hot 28 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we’ve written in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time. Watch the top news in 60 seconds, and then check out the individual links to read in more detail.
Monday 16 September 2013
- PWN2OWN for mobile devices – $300,000 in prizes for stealing data, eavesdropping or making covert calls
- Snowden outs NSA’s “Follow The Money” international banking spies
- “Stop spy on us!” 14 NASA sites hacked
Tuesday 17 September 2013
- Police nab Argentinian teen who hacked money transfer and gambling websites
- Cybercrooks can buy hacked POS device and money-laundering bundle for $2,000
- Oracle Java fails at security in new and creative ways
Wednesday 18 September 2013
- Sophos Techknow – Understanding Vulnerabilities [PODCAST]
- Firefox 24 available now! 17 fixes, 7 critical
- Half of Facebook-quitters leave over privacy concerns
- Justin Bieber imposter jailed after tricking children into stripping in front of webcam
- Who is SophosLabs: Vincent Lynch, Senior Threat Researcher
- One Direction fan serves up puppy purée in Twitter hoax
- Internet Explorer zero-day exploit prompts Microsoft to publish emergency Fix it
Thursday 19 September 2013
- Facebook “Likes” gain constitutional protection for US employees
- Defending against web-based malware: Spot the smoke, don’t wait for fire
- Ahoy, me hearties! Check your almanacks, for today be Talk Like a Pirate Day, arrr!
- UK to trial national emergency alerts via mobile phones – what are the risks?
- US secret court publishes rationale for why spying on everybody is OK
- Phone and tablet unlocking – US government nudges it closer to law
Friday 20 September 2013
- LinkedIn users sue over service’s “hacking” of contacts and spammy ways
- European Commission calls for single privacy law in wake of PRISM snooping
- Win Bitcoins, booze and cash! Be the first to crack the iPhone’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor…
- Facebook apologizes for dating ads featuring photos of suicide victim
- iOS 7 lockscreen hole discovered already – all your private photos could end up online!
Saturday 21 September 2013
- Bank robbers pose as IT guys, rig device to slurp £1.3m from Barclays
- NASA hack blunder, doxer jailed, PAYE cybercrime, $20k iPhone prize – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Sunday 22 September 2013
- Chaos Computer Club claims to have “cracked” the iPhone 5s fingerprint sensor
- Another iOS 7 lockscreen hole opens up – call anywhere in the world for free!
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