It's weekly roundup time.
Here's everything we've written in the past seven days:
Cryptography
• Kim Dotcom criticises critics of his new MEGA service
• Kim Dotcom's coders hacking on Mega's cryptography
• Do programmers understand the meaning of PRIVATE?
General interest
• Spam of the Day - "lovely girl seeks welding machine hookup"
• Vote Naked Security for best security blog
• Hard to believe, but Viagra spam like this must actually work
• CAN-SPAM spammers with a sense of humor
Hacking and scams
• Computer science student praised, then expelled
• Arsenal Lotto scam spammed out via PowerPoint file
Law and order
• Burglar who stole Steve Jobs's iPad gets seven years
• Bank-raiding Gozi malware - three men charged in New York
• Sony fined £250,000 after hackers stole masses of PII
• Convicted sex offender let off the hook after Wi-Fi snooping
• Not-so anonymous Anonymouses imprisoned over PayPal DDoS
Malware and exploits
• Boutique babycare website hack - not just the Big Guys at risk
• Backdoor Trojan disguised as flight confirmation email
• Memories of the Slammer worm - ten years later
Mobile devices
• Fake Android games infiltrate Google Play store, make money
OS and software
• It's really important you update your Foxit PDF Reader
• PWN2OWN - hack the Big Four browsers and win $500,000
• Oracle, please stop sneakily foisting toolbars on us
Privacy and online safety
• "Terrific employee" + thumb drive + 6,000 lost records = fired!
• Revenge-porn website victims launch action against providers
• Wow. Mickey Rourke has died snowboarding...
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