Monday review - the hot 26 stories of the week

by Anna Brading on February 4, 2013 | Leave a comment

Filed Under: Featured, Law & order, Mobile, Privacy, Security threats, Social networks

In case you missed any recent stories, here's everything we wrote in the last seven days.

General interest

• Test your security knowledge with the Sophos scavenger hunt

• SSCC 101 - Chet and Duck discuss the news [PODCAST]

• Ticketmaster says goodbye to CAPTCHA

Hacking and scams

• Anatomy of a phish - hacking websites to steal your details

• Hackers play Asteroids on US government websites

• Chinese hackers break into the New York Times

• A short history of hacking attacks against the media

• Questions and answers about the Twitter hack

• Twitter hacked, at least 250,000 users affected

• Super Bowl scamday: survey scammers target Twitter

Law and order

• Twitter ordered to unmask hate speakers

• FBI intent on sniffing out info on US Stuxnet role

• WhatsApp's privacy investigated by Canadian-Dutch probe

• Governments increasingly strong-arm Twitter for data

• First pirate prosecution in NZ under "three strikes" law

Malware and exploits

• PoS devices and Canadian banks targeted by Citadel malware

Mobile devices

• Apple updates iOS, fixing 27 vulnerabilities

• Jailbreak iOS 6.1 today, or wait until Sunday?

OS and software

• Serious security holes fixed in Opera

• Apple (again) washes its hands of the Java mess

• IE 10 is more secure

Privacy and online safety

• How to find single women with Facebook Graph Search

• 86,800 printers open to the internet - is one of them yours?

• What if your security camera were an insecurity camera?

• Hacker blackmailed 350 women into stripping on webcams

• Facebook is turning facial recognition back on

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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).