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Monday review - the hot 21 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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Steel bin maker Brabantia breached, trashes passwords just to be safe
It's not clear what data the intruders might have grabbed, but Brabantia said that it wasn't financial. Nor were passwords accessed.
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WhatsApp can be hijacked - keep an eye on your devices!
Keep an eye on your gadgets, lest somebody get control of your WhatsApp account with zero technical smarts and just one phone call!
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Gone in 10 seconds: Man hacks kids' toy to open garage doors
Independent security researcher Samy Kamkar has hacked a kids' toy to open garage doors.
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'Baby yoga' video throws Facebook into a culture/censorship war
A video of a screaming baby being dunked in a bucket of water leaves Facebook caught between issues of free speech and apparent condoning of practices many interpret as child abuse.
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French parking machines shock drivers with abusive messages
Otherwise normal-looking tickets issued to drivers fumed that Meaux mayor Jean-François Copé was "a thieving, bastard mayor."
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Syrian Electronic Army hijacks US Army website
"Your commanders admit they are training the people they have sent you to die fighting", said one of the messages posted on the site.
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Practical IT: Beware these 3 web security myths
To catch the bad stuff, keep your users productive, and cut down on time cleaning up compromised computers, here are our recommendations for getting web security right.
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Security hole in Hospira hospital drug pumps could let through fatal doses
An attacker who knows how to update the firmware - not a tough task, says security researcher Billy Rios - can change the dosage to a lethal limit.
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iOS 9 enhances two factor authentication, introduces 6-digit passcodes
Apple announced on Monday that iOS 9 will have native two-factor authentication as well as (slightly) more secure passcodes.
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Microsoft update: new Ts, new Cs and, for some of us, fáilte go hÉireann
We just received an important email from Microsoft. If you're a user of any of Microsoft's cloud services, you probably received one, too.
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Feds seize man's computers in raids connected to celebrity nude photo hack
The FBI's investigation points to a ring of thieves who used phishing and password-reset scams to crack celebrities' iCloud and email accounts and steal nude images.
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49 busted in Europe for Man-in-the-Middle bank attacks
A multination bust nabbed 49 people on suspicion of using Man-in-the-Middle attacks to sniff out and intercept payment requests from email.
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Snapchat steps up its security with login verification
Snapchat has an optional new security feature in version 9.9, called Login Verification. Here's why you should definitely update your app and turn it on.
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Watch out for Acai Berry scams on Facebook
Imagine a friend sends you a link, and you end up on a scammy diet site... Could that cause any harm? What should you do?
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Twitter's block list export to enable en masse blocking of trolls
The new Twitter tool is meant to enable communities to share lists of problem accounts instead of having to pick them off one by one.
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Reddit bans r/fatpeoplehate, four other subreddits under new harassment rules
Reddit's newly minted anti-harrassment policy has led to the axing of some subreddits but has left other blatantly racist subreddits untouched.
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FTC settles first crowdfunding case over deceptive Kickstarter project - but...
The FTC just settled its first case involving crowdfunding against a man who pocketed $122,000 in contributions on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter without delivering the project - but he's not going...
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IRS announces 2016 anti-fraud arrangements - but do they go far enough? [POLL]
As a result of the IRS breach announced in May 2015, changes are afoot in how US tax returns will be authenticated in 2016. Are they enough? Have your say in our poll...
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Canadian hacker, 22, gets 18 months in prison over US trade secrets theft
A Canadian member of the gang who hacked into the US Army and Microsoft is believed to be the first foreign hacker to be convicted of stealing trade secrets in the US.
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