Tomorrow marks a year since we published our ‘3 essential security tasks’, so we thought we’d revisit it to ask if you’ve done them all. If you haven’t, there’s still time! 
Monthly Archives: September 2014
China blocks Instagram as Hong Kong protesters take over the streets
China has blocked Facebook’s photo-sharing site Instagram, as pro-democracy protesters flooded the Central financial district in Hong Kong on Monday and chronicled it all by flooding social media sites with #OccupyCentral hashtagged images. 
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.
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 device we’re using.
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!
Point-of-Sale vendor loses password, causes breaches at 324 US restaurants
In its own words, a US point-of-sale vendor “acts to Block Payment Card Security Incident.” Bit late for the 324 restaurants that were breached for between 3 days and 3 months in the incident…
More celeb nude photos leaked: Cara Delevingne, Anna Kendrick and Jennifer Lawrence (again)
Jennifer Lawrence again finds herself the subject of tawdry picture posters in what has been dubbed ‘The Fappening 3’ by Redditers and 4chan community members.
Monday review – the hot 16 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we’ve written in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.
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…
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 been continued as un-redacted evidence was sought. 