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Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days – it's weekly roundup time.
Watch the top news in 60 seconds, and then check out the individual links to read in more detail.
Monday 12 May 2014
- Free One Direction tickets? Facebook scam goes multi-generational, targets Directioners
- Cybercrime boss offers a Ferrari for best online scam
- Mandatory phone kill switch bill resurrected by California Senate
- "Open the iPhone door, Siri!" – Apple's digital helper coughs up another lock screen hole
- US Navy sailor allegedly led team that hacked government computers
- Patch Tuesday for May 2014 – 8 bulletins, 2 critical, 0/zero/zilch/zip for XP
Tuesday 13 May 2014
- Twitter glitch makes it more difficult to report abuse, while "mute" is on its way
- 16-year-old Canadian boy arrested for over 30 swattings, bomb threats
Wednesday 14 May 2014
- Google and Facebook join forces to take down fake tech support scammers
- Dogecoin theft prompts temporary Doge Vault shutdown
- Linux "got root" kernel bug patched after five years at large
- People have the right to be e-forgotten, EU court rules against Google
- NSA intercepts routers, servers to slip in backdoors for overseas surveillance
- Patch Tuesday wrap-up, May 2014 – Adobe and Microsoft both patch multiple remotable holes
Thursday 15 May 2014
- Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.3, repeats last month's security updates
- Convicted Facebook paedophile walks free
- Google opens up Glass to the US masses for $1,500 a pair
- SSCC 147 – Why Snapchat will have to tell you the truth about security now [PODCAST]
Friday 16 May 2014
- Are your veins going to replace your PIN at the ATM?
- 22-year-old "organized crime" cybercrook convicted under racketeering law gets TWENTY years
- Seller of rigged PoS systems pleads guilty to Subway gift card hacking
Saturday 17 May 2014
- As one security hole closes, another one opens! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
- Apple rushes out iTunes 11.2.1 – fixes giant permissions hole
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