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Cops swap arrested women’s photos in nude-photo ‘game’
California Highway Patrol (CHP) cops have allegedly been forwarding pics from phones belonging to women in custody to their own phones and to each other.
Is Google Maps accurate? Ask the giant cat…
Someone edited Google Maps to add a giant cat. It was there one minute, then it was gone, leaping back into whatever cyber kittyland it came from. 
Adobe updates its e-reader – DRM data no longer transmitted insecurely
Adobe’s e-reader software now has “enhanced security” for uploading metadata about what you read. Or, as you might say, “no longer uploads that data insecurely”…
US Senate calls Whisper in for serious questioning on user tracking
Following serious allegations brought up by the Guardian, the US Senate has a few privacy-related questions it would like to ask the people in charge over at Whisper, the self-proclaimed “safest place on the internet”.
Facebook and Yahoo team up to block account hijackings via recycled accounts
Facebook and Yahoo have figured out how to undo the mess Yahoo made when it decided to recycle old email addresses. 
FTC takes down fake support scammers, upbeat about “getting consumers’ money back” [POLL]
Just paying the money back isn’t really a punishment for fake support call scammers. So, what do *you* think the courts should do to punish these guys? Have your say in our poll… 
POODLEs, Sandworms and getting safe online – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
The week’s security news, turned into an entertaining lesson, turned into a 1-minute video. Enjoy…
Hackers who threaten national security could face life sentences
Where damage to human welfare or national security is deemed serious enough, the proposed amendment to the UK’s Computer Misuse Act 1990 could mean life in jail for hackers, and some experts believe the changes could be used to target whistleblowers.
Has the “Sandworm” zero-day exploit burrowed back to the surface?
You may have noticed that Microsoft recently published a Security Advisory that sounds a lot like the “Sandworm” vulnerability all over again. Paul Ducklin explains…