Monday review – the hot 18 stories of the week

Missed any stories in the past seven days?

Here’s our weekly roundup, just in case…

General interest

• 60 Second Security – botnets, Java and more [VIDEO]

• Biostamps – freedom from passwords, or Hollywood science?

• SSCC 110 – Skype “surveillance” and more [PODCAST]

• Watch where you plug in – researchers hack iPhone via charger

Law and order

• US child porn suspect doesn’t have to decrypt disks (yet)

• US upholds warrantless border search of laptops

• FBI and Microsoft in “Citadel” crimeware takedown

• US orders Google to hand over user info to the FBI

• Fake payment phishers busted in South Africa

• Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom gets at seized property, evidence

Malware and exploits

• Microsoft announces five Bulletins for Patch Tuesday

• Apple’s OS X and Safari get biggish security fixes

• Crooks plant malware in online auto ad scams, FBI warns

• Oracle promises to secure Java – too little, too late?

Social networks

• LinkedIn flips the two-factor authentication switch

Privacy and online safety

• US uses NSA-FBI PRISM program to snoop everywhere

• Iowa City bans drones, automatic traffic surveillance

Cryptography

• Google’s SSL announcement – hidden surprise for XP users

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