A study found that 75% of undergraduates said they planned to keep on using Snapchat in the same way as before, despite photos being snatched from a non-secure third-party service.
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HTML5 goes officially live – now you really CAN say goodbye to Java in your browser!
Of the 21.5 years that the WWW has been going strong, 15 have been spent getting from HTML 4 to HTML5. That’s quite a journey! Paul Ducklin takes look at where we are now…
Police can demand fingerprints but not passcodes to unlock phones, rules judge
Fingerprints are what you *are*, passcodes are what you *know*. Therefore the police can demand your fingerprints to unlock a phone without contravening the Fifth Amendment, according to a judge in Virginia, USA. 
“Dear ATM, kindly dispense 30 banknotes as a test” – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s this week’s 60 Second Security video, for your viewing pleasure. From scammers to spammers in just one minute…
Teacher’s ex accused of hacking email, sending nude pics to students
The ex-lover of a Pasadena teacher has been arrested and bailed, accused of breaking into his school email account and using it to send out “sexually explicit” photos of said teacher to students and fellow staff.
Forget trick-or-treating – Kill a Zombie this Halloween
The crooks can’t have a botnet without the bots to join it. So let’s take their bots away! Killing computer zombies is the perfect sort of altruism: you help the global internet community simply by helping yourself.
Don’t wear your Google Glass or other wearables when watching a movie
Two trade groups have officially adopted a zero-tolerance policy against all wearable recording devices being on during showtime. 
How bots and zombies work, and why you should care
You probably have a firewall that blocks inbound network connections by default. So how come cybercrooks can send commands to your computer if it’s infected with a bot or zombie?
CurrentC gets user email addresses pickpocketed
CurrentC is a competitor to Apple Pay and Google Wallet. Should we worry about it getting its fingers into our bank accounts, given the recent data breach?
Millions of Drupal websites at risk from failure to patch
You should assume that your Drupal 7 website has been compromised if you didn’t patch it within 7 hours of the release of Drupal 7.32 on 15 October 2014.