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Catch up with anything you might have missed last week – it’s weekly roundup time.
General interest
• Podcast – Mandiant report, iOS coders owned, and more…
• Software update goes bad – International Space Station lost and then found
• Google says it is winning the war against Gmail account hijackers
Cryptography
• Can freezing an Android device crack its encryption keys?
Hacking and scams
• Burger King dethroned in Presidents Day Twitter hack
• Jeremy Clarkson falls foul of spammers on Twitter, vows to kill hackers
• Donald Trump has his Twitter hacked by “lowlives”
• Tumblr, Twitter and Pinterest users warned after Zendesk support site hack
Social networks
• Botnet master abuses Facebook for pocket money, researchers reveal
• Racist “McDonald’s” notice posted on Facebook is fake
• Facebook turns a deaf ear to users aged over 99
Malware and exploits
• BlackBerry warns of TIFF vulnerability
• Unit 61398: A Chinese cyber espionage unit on the outskirts of Shanghai?
• Apple’s own Macs bitten by Java-based malware attack
• Oxford University blocks Google Docs because of phishing attacks
• NBC website hacked and distributes malware – here’s what happened
• Microsoft admits it was also hit by hackers
OS and software
• Adobe’s emergency patch for Reader and Acrobat is here
• Apple patches the Java hole its own developers fell into – eventually
Privacy and online safety
• Boy meets girl. Girl and boy both strip on webcam. Girl blackmails boy
• US soldiers and spies to get handheld biometric scanners
• How to filch explicit photos to fuel your revenge porn site
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