Monday review – the hot 22 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).

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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