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Monday review: the hot 20 stories of the week
Here you go. All the stories we wrote in the past seven days, in case you missed anything (or just want to read them again).
Thieves rig Barnes & Noble PIN pads to steal credit card data
Hackers tampered with point-of-sale terminals at 63 bookstores to hijack customers' credit card and PIN information.
Keep an eye on your statements and watch for unauthorised transactions.
How a single spam from China ended up as an attack on the White House
FoxNews leads today with a story entitled "Washington confirms Chinese hack attack on White House computer."
It sounds very dramatic, but which computer? What attack? Where in China? Find out the story behind the story.
Microsoft RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol or Routine Darkside Probe?
Leaving RDP open to the internet is a little bit like giving a visitor a seat in the corner of your server room and saying, "I'll just leave you here while I go for lunch. Don't touch anything, will you?"
What could possibly go wrong?
Cracking passwords from the Philips hack - an important lesson
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Cracking the password hashes exposed in the recent Philips data breach was interesting, but there was just as much to be learned from the rate of recovery as from the password recovery itself.
We've prepared some mini-infographics to show you what we mean...
Philips hacked, plaintext passwords revealed as R00tbeer gang strikes again
R00tbeer is back, we're sorry to say. This time the victim is Dutch technology giant Philips.
Paul Ducklin looks at some of the mistakes made by Philips, cracks some of the stolen hashes to remind you about password choice, and keeps us mindful of the real offenders here.
Hackers get into AMD and steal over 30,000 - wait for it - BYTES!
A hacker calling himself r00tbeer has announced on Twitter a hack of chip vendor and Intel rival AMD.
More of a hackette, really, but there's a lesson in there anyway...
Family of potential network hackers thwarted by Australian telco engineers
Network integrity maintained, potential denial of service attack thwarted, change control committee happy...
For once, a hacker story with a happy ending!
Reuters's Twitter, WordPress accounts hacked by apparent pro-Syrian government attackers
The news giant is suspected of falling prey to attackers who took advantage of its running news operations on an insecure, out-of-date WordPress version.
Journo totally owned thanks to over-helpful iCloud support
Mat Honan is a living example of Journalism 2.0.
Honan has also recently been the victim of a hack - a hack so trivial in some respects that naysayers will probably spend hours telling us that it doesn't qualify as a hack, even though it effectively hacked Honan's digital life into shreds...
Microsoft rushes out fix after hackers reset passwords to hack Hotmail accounts
Microsoft says it has fixed a serious vulnerability in Hotmail, that was allowing hackers to reset account passwords, locking out the account's real owner and giving attackers access to users' inboxes.
Online dating and your privacy: Is it a doomed relationship?
On this Valentine's Day, we find that it is increasingly difficult to be both lovelorn and discreet.
Apple supplier Foxconn hacked not for bad factory conditions but for kicks
Foxconn, a Taiwanese manufacturer of Apple's iPhone and iPad infamous for inhumane working conditions, has been hacked by a group calling itself Swagg Security.
Four Romanians charged with multimillion-dollar hack of Subway, others
The US Department of Justice has indicted and arrested four Romanians for credit card fraud perpetrated against Subway restaurants and other retailers concluding a three year investigation. Looks like default/easily cracked passwords enabled another needless theft.
FLAMING RETORT: Putting out the HP printer fires
Smoke and fire certainly make good hacking headlines.
But there's a lot more to the flaming war of words between Columbia University and HP than potential pyro printer problems.
Paul Ducklin weighs into the debate.
Xbox Live customers not hacked but phished
Xbox Live customers are the latest gamers to fall victim to an online attack with thousands of accounts hit across 35 countries.
Anonymous and LulzSec trawl Google Code search for security holes
A new report suggests that Google's Code Search is being used by groups such as LulzSec and Anonymous to find passwords and other private data, gain access to secure networks and decide who their next victim should be.
LG hacked - website defaced to show simulated intrusion
One of the websites belonging to global electronics giant LG has been hacked by a collective calling itself the Intra Web Security Exploit Team.
Watch a video of what the attackers did. And learn how to avoid ending up in this situation yourself!
Sesame Street's YouTube channel hacked, replaced with porn
Sesame Street had its YouTube channel hacked on Sunday, and its highly popular child-friendly videos of muppets like Kermit the frog and the Big Bird replaced with something far less savoury...
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