Monday review - the hot 26 stories of the week

by Anna Brading on March 11, 2013 | 2 Comments

Filed Under: Adobe, Android, Apple, Celebrities, Facebook, Google, Law & order, Malware, Microsoft, Privacy, Ransomware, SophosLabs, Spam

In case you missed it: Here's everything we wrote last week.

General interest

• It's *never* a virus when people say it might be a virus - XKCD

• Curiosity Rover suffers IT glitch - this time it really might be "cosmic rays"!

• USA is number one! (...for spam)

Hacking and scams

• Saudi Arabia's national oil company has had its Twitter hacked

• Samsung Galaxy security vulnerability unlocks homescreen

Law and order

• Jailed cybercriminal hacks into his own prison's computer system

• US ISPs launch pirate wrist-slapping campaign

• White House agrees cellphone unlocking should be allowed

• $5 million class action lawsuit over LinkedIn data breach dismissed

• Browser choice - How a "technical error" cost Microsoft over $700 million

Privacy and online safety

• How to protect yourself from debit-card fraud

• Can multiple moving cursors really hide your password from spyware and peepers?

• Apple finally adopts HTTPS for the App Store - here's why it matters

Malware and exploits

• Russian ransomware takes advantage of Windows PowerShell

• Rogue Apache modules pushing iFrame injections which drive traffic to Blackhole exploit kit

• Anatomy of a bug - the five minute insecurity window in the sudo command

• Malware attack poses as warning from Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit

• Germans bombarded in malware attack

• Last-minute pre-Pwnium Chrome update closes numerous holes...

• Exploit Chrome, IE, Java, etc.. and you could win millions of dollars

• PWN2OWN results Day One - Java, Chrome, IE 10 and Firefox owned

• PWN2OWN results Day Two - Adobe Reader and Flash owned, Java felled yet again

• Firefox and Chrome already patched after PWN2OWN

OS and software

• Apple bans outdated Adobe Flash plugins from Safari

• Oracle ships out-of-band Java fix, Apple follows suit

Social networks

• Has Justin Bieber died in a car crash?

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2 Responses to Monday review - the hot 26 stories of the week

  1. Dave Brown says:
    March 11, 2013 at 1:07 pm

    Anna Brading, are you synaesthetic? Or the person who did your "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday..." graphic? I notice Tuesday and Thursday are the same colour, which is a dead giveaway!

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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).