Monday review – the hot 27 stories of the week

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Monday 13 April 2015

• We TOLD you not to use WPS on your Wi-Fi router! We TOLD you not to knit your own crypto!
• The NSA wants a multi-part encryption key for 'front door' access to your data
• Amazon sues sites that sell fake reviews
• Twitter shuts down 10,000 ISIS-linked accounts in one day

Tuesday 14 April 2015

• TLS certificate blunder revisited – whither China Internet Network Information Center?
• Teen charged after using teacher's admin password to access school computer
• Is DARPA's Memex search engine a Google-killer?
• Season 5 Game of Thrones episodes leaked online

Wednesday 15 April 2015

• Update Tuesday, April 2015 – Urgent action needed over Microsoft HTTP bug
• Toxin-buying teen finds police waiting for him on the dark web
• Interpol announces successful takedown of "Simda" botnet
• Hot Lotto security director suspected of tinkering with computer to win $14.3m
• New algorithm could auto-squash trolls

Thursday 16 April 2015

• Get into RSA 2015 for free, hear eye-opening talks!
• US lawmaker who's pushing anti-swatting bill gets swatted
• EU accuses Google of abusing search dominance, opens Android investigation

Friday 17 April 2015

• Google fixes potential revenue-stealing "comment cloning" YouTube bug
• WikiLeaks publishes massive searchable archive of hacked Sony documents
• Could a hacker *really* bring down a plane from a mobile phone in seat 12C?
• UN asks if robots should be allowed to kill humans
• Target's settlement with MasterCard costs retailer $19 million
• Tampering with US voting machine as easy as 'abcde', says Virginia report
• Practical IT: What you need to know about email encryption
• Lost your Android? Now you can Google it!

Saturday 18 April 2015

• If the "Deep Web" becomes searchable, is it still deep? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
• SSCC 194 – Patch early? Patch often? This time, "Patch NOW!" [PODCAST]

Sunday 19 April 2015

• US government whistleblowers left vulnerable to eavesdropping

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