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Get yourself up to date with everything we’ve written in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.
General interest
• Probably the best 15 minute security podcast of the day
Cryptography
• Mega’s bug bounty – “a few billion billion years” to go
Hacking and scams
• Pope to resign – Twitter sex spammers exploit story
• “STOP CONTACTING THOSE B*!%£RDS”
• Hacked TV channels broadcast zombie apocalypse alert
• Jawbone accounts compromised by hackers
• Facebook owns up to network breach, blames Java in browser
Law and order
• Reveton ransomware gang arrested by Spanish police
Malware and exploits
• Malware injected into legit JavaScript on legit websites
• Anatomy of a targeted attack – an Adobe 0-day “experiment”
• More Mac malware attacking minority groups in China
• Point-of-Sale malware attacks – no business too small
Mobile devices
• Was Alicia Keys hacked, or is she cheating on BlackBerry?
• Unlock an iPhone without the passcode
OS and software
• VMWare security hole – it sounds like you need the patch
• Monster super-critical Patch Tuesday for February 2013
• Oracle on Java – we *will* have Patch Tuesday after all
• Adobe investigates PDF Reader zero-day vulnerability reports
• Adobe PDF exploit workaround, but not for Mac or Linux
Privacy and online safety
• Ex-President Bush doxed – personal information leaked
• Bizarre Google search bug benefits porn websites
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