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).
Cryptography
• Cracked passwords from Egyptian hacker’s Adobe breach
General interest
• Sophos awarded VB100 in Win 2003 R2 comparative anti-virus test
Hacking and scams
• Facebook shuts down Albania Pirate Group
• Facebook Black? Beware widespread scam
• Papa John’s pizza faces $250M class action over SMSes
• TNS24 – a fake courier company website
• Acai Berry scammers $2M lighter after FTC settlement
• LinkedIn spam drives traffic to Toronto Drug Store
• FreeBSD shutters some servers after SSH key breach
Law and order
• DDoS stunt backfires, entrepreneur jailed for nine months
• How to report a computer crime: SQL injection
Malware and exploits
• New Mac Trojan variant discovered, targeting Tibet
• Blackhole confusion. Custom builds or copycats?
Mobile devices
• Windows Phone 8 malware? Teen hacker claims prototype
• How well do Android privacy apps hide your sexy photos?
• iOS dictionary apps posting false piracy “confessions” on Twitter
OS and software
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday – even a patch for your Mac!
• Microsoft pushes IE 9 tweak via Windows Update
Privacy and online safety
• Google: Government internet surveillance on the rise
• Petraeus tripped up by supposedly anonymous email
• Skype users warned – accounts hijacked with ease
• NASA suffers major data breach over stolen laptop
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