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Get yourself up to date with everything we’ve written in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.
General interest
• Dozing bank clerk turns €64 into €22 million – and teaches us all a security lesson!
• Google files patent to let you unlock your phone by grimacing at it
• PRISM, UK Surveillance, Sweden vs. Google, Blackberry Z10 – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
• Naked Security’s Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault say goodbye
Law and order
• Hacker who helped to expose Steubenville attack could face more prison time than rapists
• EU to vote on harsher penalties for hackers
Malware and exploits
• Was Microsoft’s takedown of Citadel effective?
• Guntior bootkit up to new tricks
Social networks
• Facebook gets #hashtags, which does #WTF to your #privacy?
OS and software
• Get ready! Oracle to fix 40 holes in Java on Tuesday, 18 June 2013
• Blackberry releases first security fixes for new Z10 smartphone
• Patch Tuesday June 2013 – Office, Windows and Flash
Privacy and online safety
• UK political bigwigs demand return of snoopers’ charter. Seriously? Today?
• “Nej till Google!” – Sweden tells a local council that Google’s cloud is a no-go area
• Internet giants call for transparency in government surveillance requests
• PRISM – not as bad as you thought? (And don’t call it PRISM!)
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