Monday review – the hot 27 stories of the week

Just in case you missed any of our stories last week, here’s a little recap.

Cryptography

• The top 10 cracked ciphertexts from history

• Twitter looking to hire two-factor authentication brains

• Boffins ‘crack’ HTTPS encryption in Lucky Thirteen attack

General interest

• Facebook “will be closed for maintenance Feb 29-31”

• Forget the Superbowl – here comes a giant Mersenne prime!

• Whitepaper: Security questions for your web hosting provider

• Infosec pros give verdict on EU’s new cybersecurity strategy

Hacking and scams

• US Department of Energy hacked, personal information stolen

• Facebook Class Action email – it looks like a phish but it’s not

• UPnP flaws turn millions of firewalls into doorstops

• China is still hacking the WSJ, claims Rupert Murdoch

• US Federal Reserve confirms it was hacked during Super Bowl

• Bit9 hacked, used to inject malware into customers’ networks

Law and order

• Secret legal review grants US president internet attack powers

• Acai Berry fake news website operators fined millions of dollars

• Sarah Ferguson, Hugh Grant and Dr Who win substantial damages

Malware and exploits

• Malware spammed out widely posing as income tax email

• DNSChanger malware suspect pleads guilty – faces 25 years

• Bamital botnet dismantled, Microsoft seizes control of servers

OS and software

• Another Java update! Oracle brings Patch Tuesday forward

• Anatomy of a bug – how Mac OS X chokes if you say “FILE”

• Adobe patches Flash – heads off in-the-wild attacks

• Microsoft readies monster-sized security patch for Windows users

• Anatomy of a vulnerability – cURL toolkit holed by bug

Privacy and online safety

• Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker, tells all but his name

• Top 10 tips to keep your kids and teens safe online

• How Justin Bieber’s name is used by internet perverts

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