Monday review - the hot 23 stories of the week

by Anna Brading on November 26, 2012 | Leave a comment

Filed Under: Apple, Cryptography, Data loss, Denial of Service, Facebook, Featured, Google, Law & order, Malware, OS X, Security threats, Spam, Windows

It's weekly summary time.

Here's everything we've written in the last seven days.

Cryptography

• VIDEO: How to solve the Skyfall #sophospuzzle

General interest

• Prince William photos accidentally reveal RAF password

Hacking and scams

• Nintendo fixes Wii U network after accidental hack

• A new profile on Facebook? No, it's drug store spam

• "Grab hold and give it a wiggle" - seasonal security advice

• Hacked Go Daddy sites infecting users with ransomware

Law and order

• New South Wales Police wrap up bomb-hoax case

• Goatse hacker Auernheimer guilty of AT&T iPad data breach

• How to report a computer crime: Phishing attack

• Man charged with DDoS on UK police and university websites

Malware and exploits

• Vodafone MMS email spam spreads malware

• USA blamed for spyware on French president's network

• EU domain abuse, courtesy of the Blackhole exploit kit

• Beware Thanksgiving screensavers designed to infect your PC

• Fake Apple invoices lead to Blackhole exploit kit

• SophosLabs wins coveted Swiss prize

Mobile devices

• Fake Apple apps appear on Android Google Play store

OS and software

• Firefox 17 arrives - 2365 bugs zapped, OS X 10.5 dropped

Privacy and online safety

• Facebook finally enables HTTPS by default, we celebrate

• Experian defends database security practices

• Judge okays $22.5M Google fine for violating Safari privacy

• Judge orders women in sex case to hand over Facebook logins

• Facebook Data Use Policy email sparks security fear

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Anna Brading has worked in tech for more than ten years and as a writer with Sophos for over four. She has a love of all things social media, reading and cats (but she's not weird, honest).