Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week

Get up to date with everything we wrote in the past seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.

General interest

• CERN Geneva celebrates 20 years of the World Wide Web

• Would you let a spammer give you a root canal? Sure you would!

• Apple iMessage “censors” mention of Obama: international conspiracy…or software bug?

Hacking and scams

• Reputation.com resets all user passwords following breach

Law and order

• Revenge-porn website victim files suit against ex and four porn sites

• US seeks to pressure Google, Facebook et al. into installing wiretapping backdoors

• Thieves may have used GPS to track burglary victim

Malware and exploits

• Lifting the lid on the Redkit exploit kit (Part 1)

• Network gaming company uses its “cheat-prevention” client to build a Bitcoin botnet

• US Department of Labor website hacked, serves malware, now fixed

• German ministry replaced brand new PCs infected with Conficker worm, rather than disinfect them

• What WERE they thinking? Internet-enabled cameras under the security lens once again

• “Wire transfer canceled”? Watch out for spammed-out malware attack

Social networks

• Facebook introduces Trusted Contacts, makes you ask, “How much do I trust my friends?”

• Troll admits to making death threats against children on Facebook

• Guardian Twitter accounts hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army

Cryptography

• IBM takes a big new step in cryptography: practical homomorphic encryption

• Beware of encryption companies bearing gifts!

OS and software

• Apple ships jolly uninteresting iOS 6.1.4 update

Privacy and online safety

• How to rate a comparative anti-virus test – a six-step guide

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