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In case you missed anything, here’s everything we wrote in the past seven days.
General interest
• And The Best Corporate Security Blog is…
• Anatomy of a “feature” – what if a website grabs all your disk space?
• Lessons to learn from the UGNazi hacking of Mat Honan and Cloudflare
• Illegal music file sharing drops significantly since 2011
• Traveling to a conference? 8 security tips to keep top of mind
Cryptography
• The top 10 unsolved ciphertexts
Hacking and scams
• Evernote hacked – almost 50 million passwords reset after security breach
• Evernote shoots itself in foot over advice on ‘reset password’ emails
• cPanel suffers break-in, lets slip customers’ root passwords
• Google patches two-factor authentication bug
• No, Iran didn’t really hack and down a foreign military spy drone
Law and order
• FBI wins appeal in extradition case of Kim Dotcom
• 100,000+ Americans demand legal right to unlock phone
Malware and exploits
• Targeted malware attack piggybacks on Nvidia digital signature
• Technical paper: Exploring the history and technology of ransomware
• China blamed for EADS and ThyssenKrupp hack attacks
• Researchers claim to have found more zero-day vulnerabilities in Java
Social networks
• Facebook fixes bug that leaked users’ phone numbers
• Rihanna sex video event scam spreads on Facebook
• Talking Angela iPhone app scare spreads on Facebook
Mobile devices
• Second iPhone passcode hack vulnerability discovered
OS and software
• Adobe tells users to update Flash Player for the third time this month
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