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Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week
It's weekly roundup time. Here's all the great stuff we've written in the past seven days.
IT admin pleads guilty to hacking into and spying on New Jersey mayor's email
Patrick Ricciardi configured computer systems to collect all emails sent to the mayor and two high-ranking city employees.
He did it, he said, to see if his job was secure. We can say with reasonable certainty now that it is not.
Is it ever acceptable for a journalist to hack into somebody else's email?
Sky News journalist Gerard Tubb may have hacked into emails sent by "Canoe Man", but he will escape prosecution.
Other journalists would be unwise, says Graham Cluley, to see this as a green light for email hacking.
Google to pay $40,000 "consolation prize" to Pinkie Pie for not-quite breaking into Chrome OS
Renowned Chrome hacker Pinkie Pie, who scooped the prize at last year's Pwnium competition, didn't quite get across the line this year.
But Google will pay him a one-third-sized consolation prize anyway, for "honoring the spirit of the competition."
AT&T hacker "Weev" sentenced to 41 months in prison, after obtaining the email addresses of 100,000+ iPad users
Andrew Auernheimer has been sentenced for the federal crimes of obtaining the personal data of over 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T's publicly accessible website.
Besides his prison sentence, he's facing 3 years of probation and, together with another convicted hacker, paying restitution of $73,000.
High-rolling gambler uses casino's own surveillance system to scoop $32 million...
Games like poker are much easier to win if you know some or all of your opponents' cards.
And what better way to get real-time stats on your opponents' hands than by looking at the casino's own, live, CCTV footage?
Jailed cybercriminal hacked into his own prison's computer system after being put in IT class
Here's a piece of advice for those running classes training prisoners about information technology.
It's probably not a good idea to let notorious hackers join the course - or, if you do, to keep a very close eye on what they're up to.
Monday review - the hot 22 stories of the week
In case you missed anything, here's everything we wrote in the past seven days.
Evernote shoots itself in foot over "never click on 'reset password' requests" advice
Have you taken a close look at the email that Evernote has sent out, with the subject line "Evernote Security Notice: Service-wide Password Reset"?
It looks like the hacked company has made a blunder.
Evernote hacked - almost 50 million passwords reset after security breach
Evernote, the online note-taking service, has says that it has suffered a serious security breach which saw hackers steal usernames, associated email addresses and encrypted passwords.
Webhosting management company cPanel suffers break-in, lets slip customers' root passwords
Webhosting management company cPanel recently announced a worrying sort of compromise: the possible theft of its customers' root passwords.
Paul Ducklin looks at what happened, and what's being done to avoid a repeat of this worrying situation...
Second iPhone passcode hack vulnerability discovered
You too can get into somebody's locked iPhone, particularly if you have a prehensile tail and don't mind (almost) placing a phony emergency call. Which you a) probably don't and b) hopefully do.
Traveling to a conference? 8 security tips to keep top of mind
Conference season 2013 is on. While events like these can be great for networking and mindsharing, there can be computer security dangers lurking about. We've pulled together 8 IT security tips to help you stay ahead of the game.
China blamed for EADS and ThyssenKrupp hack attacks
EADS, maker of the Eurofighter, says that Chinese hackers attacked its computer network last year.
Is your company prepared reducing the likelihood of a successful targeted attack?
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Microsoft admits it was also hit by hackers, malware infects their Mac business unit
Microsoft joins Facebook and Apple in the list of big companies who have suffered at the hands of malware-bearing hackers.
Tumblr, Twitter and Pinterest users warned after Zendesk support site hack
Hackers have broken into Zendesk's systems, and accessed the email addresses of Tumblr, Twitter and Pinterest customers who had attempted to get support.
Donald Trump has his Twitter hacked by "lowlives"
An impossibly coiffed real estate mogul's Twitter account starts posting hip-hop lyrics.
Do *you* take enough care of your social media accounts?
Google says it is winning the war against Gmail account hijackers
Account takeovers are down a mammoth 99.7% compared with what they were at the height of the spear-phishing plague of 2011, the company (rightfully) brags.
Do not relax: such success doesn't let us users off the hook when it comes to account security beef-up.
Unit 61398: A Chinese cyber espionage unit on the outskirts of Shanghai?
Security researchers at Mandiant have published a lengthy report, which appears to track a notorious hacking gang right to the door of a building belonging to the People's Liberation Army of China.
