Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week

Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days – it's weekly roundup time.

Monday 18 January 2016

• Cryptographic backdoors? France says, “Non!”
• Nest smart thermostat glitch leaves cold feet and steaming mad customers
• The Facebook post that led directly to jail – for more than 15 years
• Ross Ulbricht appeals Silk Road conviction – did he get a fair trial?

Tuesday 19 January 2016

• Survey shows many businesses aren’t encrypting private employee data
• BlackBerry says its encryption has not been “cracked” by police
• Hyatt says 250 hotels were drained of credit card details
• Woman given a year in jail for tagging sister-in-law in Facebook post

Wednesday 20 January 2016

• Selfie-posting power grid workers are inadvertently exposing critical information
• Supermarket patches its web security…how safe are *your* web forms?
• MAC address scrambling coming to Linux
• These are the 25 worst passwords of 2015 – did yours make the list?

Thursday 21 January 2016

• Update your iPhone to stop free Wi-Fi networks stealing your logins!
• Facebook users get support for safe browsing with Tor on Androids
• XSS bug in Yahoo Mail could have let attackers take over email accounts
• Angler exploit kit rings in 2016 with CryptoWall ransomware

Friday 22 January 2016

• Why your health data isn’t as secure as it should be
• Facebook’s Friend Finder found unlawful by Germany’s highest court
• Two LA drone pilots face fines and possible imprisonment
• IoT security in the spotlight at PrivacyCon

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