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Home Depot says, “Er, yes, we did have a breach actually”
Just how big and bad it will turn out to be is still unknown…all we know so far is that Home Depot has officially confirmed that, yes, there was indeed a breach.
Teen’s open Facebook invite leads to 500 unexpected gatecrashers
Maybe there’s a better way to impress a girl than hosting a party where she invites all her gazillion Facebook friends to trash your mum’s house. 
Reddit bans celebrity naked photo leaks subreddit ‘The Fappening’
Reddit has banned r/TheFappening, a subreddit in which people shared the leaked nude celebrity photos. With some of the images said to be taken of American gymnast McKayla Maroney when she was underage, Reddit was leaving itself open to claims of publishing child pornography.
HealthCare.gov breached, injected with malware
Federal health officials have discovered that the US insurance exchange site HealthCare.gov was breached in July, when an intruder uploaded malware with the apparent motive of using the system to launch cyberattacks against other sites. 
Tim Cook says Apple *does* care about iCloud Security. But is that enough? [POLL]
Tim Cook told the WSJ that, yes Apple *does* care about iCloud security, and will take steps to make it more secure. Really?
How far would your sysadmins go to fix a problem? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here it is – this week’s 60 Second Security video. News that will amuse, and it only takes a minute…
Apple iCloud – 3 tips for keeping your photos and other data safe
Apple confirmed it found no evidence of a security breach, but that some individual celebrity iCloud accounts were compromised. With that in mind, here are 3 tips to help protect you when using iCloud:
Is it thumbs up to Barclays bank’s finger-vein-reading authentication?
Barclays Bank has announced plans to introduce biometric authentication based on vein patterns in fingers for its UK business customers, which could signal a major shift in how we access online banking systems.
Review your settings with Facebook’s new privacy checkup tool
Facebook has now rolled out its dinosaur-led privacy tool to everyone. So you can either wait for your dino-popup to appear, or click on the padlock icon in Facebook, go to Privacy Checkup, and follow these 3 simple steps. 