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Monday review - the hot 23 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Hudgens, et al. targeted in latest naked celebrity...
Early on Saturday morning, Celebgate flooded the same sites as it did three weeks ago - 4Chan and Reddit, among others - as cyber crooks again posted nude celebrity photos, despite the scuffle of...
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Tor users could be FBI's main target if legal power grab succeeds
The US Department of Justice is proposing a power grab that would make it easier for domestic law enforcement to break into computers of people trying to protect their anonymity via Tor or other...
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Bistro turns the tables on Yelp, offers discounts to customers for 1-star...
A business is asking its customers to write one-star reviews on Yelp, in exchange for a 25% discount, after it said it got fed up with Yelp advertising calls.
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No, 'Apple Wave' does not let you charge your iPhones in the microwave
No, new features in iOS 8 do *not* include "Apple Wave" wireless microwave frequency charging, regardless of what 4chan tells you. Remember: Don't let Apple-new-release fever fog your brain, and do NOT...
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Is it *really* such a bad idea to use a password twice?
We regularly warn you against using the same password for multiple accounts. But if you memorise one really long and complex password, isn't that enough? No! Here's why...
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DuckDuckGoAway: China blocks privacy-oriented search engine
Getting selected as the default private search engine for Apple's Safari browser has been a boon for young search engine DuckDuckGo. But it may well have tainted the search engine in the eyes of the...
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Emma Watson threatened with hoax nude photo leak by internet marketers
Up sprung the threateningly titled emmayouarenext.com website which featured a clock counting down to the release of apparently stolen photos of Emma Watson. Were there photos? No, it was just a viral...
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Mozilla fixes "phishing friendly" cryptographic bug in Firefox and Thunderbird
Mozilla just patched a bug in its cryptographic library, NSS. The bug is rated "critical" because it could permit skullduggery in apparently secure connections.
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Disgruntled employees are increasingly e-sabotaging businesses, FBI says
Employees with an axe to grind are increasingly sticking it to their current or former employers by carrying out "computer network exploitation and disruption", the FBI says.
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Netflix deadlocked with broadcast regulator over "confidential" subscriber data
Things are getting testy between Netflix and Canada's broadcast regulator over "confidential" subscriber data which the regulator wants to be able to access.
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Bash “Shellshock” vulnerability – what you need to know
Shellshock is the media-friendly name for a remote code execution hole in Bash, a command shell commonly used on Linux and UNIX systems. Paul Ducklin explains...
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Apple pulls iOS 8.0.1 update, tells users to roll back to iOS 8
Apple's telling users to ditch the update after it knocked out cellular service and disabled Touch ID for iPhones, on top of a list of other glitches - stalling, crashing and more.
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Ex-con Kevin Mitnick now selling zero-day exploits, starting at $100K
He says his firm will carefully screen potential clients and that he'd never sell to an entity such as the Syrian regime or a criminal gang. Then again, he's not asking what clients intend to do with...
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SSCC 166 - A sleeping bag and a camping stove to queue for an iPhone? [PODCAST]
For your listening pleasure! Here's the latest episode in our weekly podcast series...
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Child abuser sues Facebook and page admin over allegedly posting his address
The administrator of the paedophile-monitoring site admitted in High Court to "naming and shaming" 400 sex offenders on the Facebook page but denied posting the address. As of Thursday, the case had...
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Are you tired of weak or fake zero-day exploits? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Watch our latest 60 Second Security video! An entertaining but insightful look at the week's security woes - in just one minute...
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Apple patches OS X against Shellshock
If you're a Mac user, you may have felt wrongfully left out of all the Shellshock kerfuffle over the past few days. Not any more!
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Facebook's new 'Atlas' ad platform will follow us around on non-Facebook sites
The ad technology will enable Facebook partners to siphon user data from Facebook's deep, deep sea and use it to super-target ads at users on and off its website, no matter what wireless or wired...
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George Clooney issues burner phones to stop guests from leaking wedding photos
Mr Oceans Eleven wasn't about to let leaked photos ruin his Big Day so he handed out coded burner phones to all his guests.
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