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

Weekly podcast

Listen to the week’s Sophos Security Chet Chat podcast:

Monday 7 March 2016

• 7 tips for securing the Internet of Things
• Let your uSeRS chOOse wACKy passWords, US banks!
• “Hack the Pentagon” bug bounty program announced
• Match.com rapist jailed for life
• Pirates hacked shipping company to steal info for efficient hijackings

Tuesday 8 March 2016

• How one man could have broken into any Facebook account
• Someone is Rickrolling people using fake parking tickets
• Your smartphone fingerprint reader could be hacked using paper and ink
• Unlock iPhone without passcode using Siri – video is bogus
• Live from RSA – Endpoint security is dead, long live endpoint security [Chet Chat Podcast 234]
• Ransomware arrives on the Mac: OSX/KeRanger-A – what you need to know

Wednesday 9 March 2016

• Security SOS Week: Social engineering, malvertising, a hacker’s toolkit, and more
• More companies snared by same type of phishing attack that hit Snapchat
• Rate people as if they were a product – Peeple has officially arrived
• Erin Andrews awarded $55m over nude video shot through hotel door peep hole

Thursday 10 March 2016

• Forget fingerprints, ears are so next season in biometrics
• Truckers: how anyone could track you on the IoT
• Will Google AI conquer the world’s toughest game Go?
• IRS yanks anti-identity-theft tool IP PIN over 800 identity thefts
• Facebook friend request from victim prompts thief to turn himself in

Friday 11 March 2016

• Flash zero-day prompts emergency update from Adobe
• Facebook in Germany: definitely NOT a “Like”
• IS defector steals USB stick revealing 22K members identities
• Man jams “annoying” fellow commuters’ phone signals, gets charged with felony

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