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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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Can freezing an Android device crack its encryption keys?
Will chilling an Android phone to -15°C freeze the encryption keys into memory? And if so, can you use a modified version of Android to dig them out? German researchers had a crack at it - Paul Ducklin...
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Boy meets girl. Girl strips on webcam. Tells boy to do the same. Girl...
Webcam extortion the other way around: hot girls extorting men. Be careful out there, and keep your trousers on chaps.
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US soldiers and spies to get handheld biometric scanners
The US Department of Defense is funding the development of a hardware peripheral and software suite that turns a regular smartphone into a device that scans and transmits biometric data at distances...
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BlackBerry warns of TIFF vulnerability that could allow malware to run on...
Malicious hackers could create a boobytrapped TIFF image file and either trick a BlackBerry smartphone user into visiting a webpage carrying the image, or embed the malicious image directly into an...
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Burger King dethroned in Presidents Day Twitter hack
It seems like it happens every holiday. A celebrity or major corporate brand loses control of its Twitter account. Perhaps it is less than coincidental than that the king of burgers was compromised on...
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Jeremy Clarkson falls foul of bodyfat spammers on Twitter, vows to kill hackers
The controversial presenter of BBC's "Top Gear" programme, has had his Twitter account compromised by spammers... and he wants his revenge.
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Botnet master abuses Facebook for pocket money, researchers reveal
A Chinese hacker's main job may well be running a botnet of malware-clotted zombie PCs, but there's always time left in the day for selling fake Likes, apparently.
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Unit 61398: A Chinese cyber espionage unit on the outskirts of Shanghai?
Security researchers at Mandiant have published a lengthy report, which appears to track a notorious hacking gang right to the door of a building belonging to the People's Liberation Army of China.
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Apple's own Macs bitten by Java-based malware attack
Apple released a statement today acknowledging that they were victims of the same attackers that Facebook talked about last week. A zero-day Java vulnerability infected Apple Mac developers through a...
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Apple patches the Java hole its own developers fell into - eventually
Shortly after admitting that its own techies got infected thanks to a Java hole, Apple has pushed out a Java update for the rest of us. Apple, with this most recent update, seems to have washed its...
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Software update goes bad - International Space Station lost and then found
Even if you have everything from Plan B all the way to Plan Z just in case the A-plan fails, you'll know that things can still go wrong. So spare a thought for NASA flight controllers, who lost contact...
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How to filch explicit photos to fuel your revenge porn site
IsAnybodyDown's owner apparently impersonated a woman to trick victims into sending him nude photos. Showing true monopolistic genius, he also seems to be running the photo-takedown service that...
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That was quick! Adobe's emergency patch for Reader and Acrobat is here...
Adobe has released the emergency update for Reader and Acrobat that it promised late last week. You may as well take advantage of Adobe's new-found velocity and get busy patching!
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Google says it is winning the war against Gmail account hijackers
Account takeovers are down a mammoth 99.7% compared with what they were at the height of the spear-phishing plague of 2011, the company (rightfully) brags. Do not relax: such success doesn't let us...
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Oxford University blocks Google Docs because of phishing attacks.. for 2.5 hours
Flooded with phishing attacks, which staff and students were falling for, the IT team at Oxford University blocked access to Google Docs - hoping to wake up users to the threat.. Would such a technique...
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Racist "McDonald's" notice posted on Facebook is designed to generate calls...
Is a branch of McDonald's really charging African-Americans an extra $1.50? Of course not, but thousands of Facebook fans are spreading the story regardless.
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NBC website hacked and distributes malware - here's what happened
The latest high-profile organisation to fall victim to cybercriminals is the US television network NBC. NBC's website was "owned" and used as a go-between in a campaign to infect online visitors...
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Donald Trump has his Twitter hacked by "lowlives"
An impossibly coiffed real estate mogul's Twitter account starts posting hip-hop lyrics. Do *you* take enough care of your social media accounts?
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Tumblr, Twitter and Pinterest users warned after Zendesk support site hack
Hackers have broken into Zendesk's systems, and accessed the email addresses of Tumblr, Twitter and Pinterest customers who had attempted to get support.
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