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In case you missed any recent stories, here’s everything we wrote in the last seven days.
General interest
• Interview with ‘We are Anonymous’ author Parmy Olson (PODCAST)
• Naked Security discusses cybercrime on BBC Radio 5 Live’s “Outriders” show
Hacking and scams
• FT hacked. Syrian Electronic Army hijacks Financial Times blogs and Twitter accounts
• How to hack an electric car-charging station
• Phishers waste woman’s £1m life savings on cheeseburgers, champagne and gold
Law and order
• The LulzSec hackers who boasted they were “Gods” await their sentence
• Have your say – LulzSec: helpful, harmless or hideous?
• Jail for the LulzSec hacking gang members
• Opinion: No, the LulzSec hackers weren’t noble
• US DOJ secretly swiped Associated Press phone records
• ‘Food porn’ Instagram photo of fancy steak/mac and cheese dinner leads IRS to identity thieves
• Sony hacking suspect smashes computers to get out of prosecution
Malware and exploits
• Outbreak! Fake Amazon UK emails spammed out, delivering malware
• Doctor Who episode leaks out early: exterminate spoilers!
Social networks
• Social Roulette is forced by Facebook to commit its own social suicide
• “Colin was here” – Sky News Twitter “disaster recovery” test message is accidentally posted
Cryptography
• Get ready for the next #sophospuzzle – coming soon to a T-shirt near you
• And the winner of the World War Two steganography competition is…
OS and software
• Apple fixes 41 iTunes security flaws, some more than a year old
• Mozilla pushes out new Firefox and Thunderbird: 8 security advisories, 3 critical fixes
• May Patch Tuesday critical for users of Internet Explorer and web-based services
Privacy and online safety
• How to measure the biggest and most dangerous threats
• Bloomberg accused of “snooping” on customers for journalistic gain
• Is your laptop still unencrypted? Perhaps 7 seconds of CCTV might change your mind
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