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OK, these aren’t just the hot 17 stories of the past week, but of the two weeks before that, too.
If, like us, you’ve been enjoying some downtime over the Christmas and New Year holidays, here’s your quickest way to get back up to speed with Naked Security, from 17 December 2012 to 06 January 2013.
Enjoy!
Cryptography
• Windows passwords: “Dead in Six Hours”
• Turkish CA screwup leads to attempted Google impersonation
General interest
• Practical IT: are your firewalls in the wrong place?
Hacking and scams
• Mickey Virus: Bollywood movie jumps on hacking bandwagon
• Facebook won’t donate money for life-saving surgery – it’s a hoax
Law and order
• Man who hacked Scarlett Johansson’s email gets ten years
• Would you like spam with that? McDonald’s pinged for spamming
• How a regular IT guy helped catch a botnet cybercriminal
• “Julian Assange of Wikileaks arrested in London” hoax
Malware and exploits
• Iran claims discovery of new targeted malware
• Sudoku and malware with your coffee?
• PPT about Mayan “end of world” boobytrapped with malware
• Be careful opening bikini screensavers – malware inside
OS and software
• Java 7 update 10 introduces important new security controls
• Zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, FixIt now available
Privacy and online safety
• Report: 94% of US hospitals suffered data breaches
• Think before you drink before you drive before you Facebook
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