China has cited Apple iPhone’s ability to track and time-stamp users’ whereabouts as reason to declare the mobile phone hazardous to state security. 
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“Gameover” malware returns from the dead…
In early June 2014, a internationally co-ordinated law enforcement effort against the criminals behind the infamous Gameover malware pretty much wiped out their botnet altogether. Bad news – it looks as though Gameover is back…
LibreSSL ships first portable version, now up to 48% less huge!
LibreSSL, OpenBSD’s drop-in replacement for OpenSSL started after the pain of Heartbleed, has just published its first “portable” version. If you’re a coder and you’re interested in security, why not try it and see what you think?
No login links in emails, please! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Got a minute to spare? Watch this week’s 60 Second Security…
Microsoft and No-IP reach settlement over malware takedown
Microsoft has reached a settlement with domain provider No-IP less than two weeks after it grabbed 23 internet domain names, knocking out 1.8 million customer sites and over 5 million hostnames. 
Tor Project is NOT getting sued for enabling revenge porn site PinkMeth
A Texas revenge-porn victim is suing the operators of revenge-porn site PinkMeth.com and was (until her lawyer figured out just what, exactly, the anonymising service Tor actually is) suing The Tor Project for helping PinkMeth to operate anonymously. 
UK to rush through “emergency” phone and internet data retention law
The UK is rushing through Parliament what it calls an emergency law that will ensure it retains access to people’s phone and internet records, in spite of the European Court of Justice having said in April that data retention violates human rights. It’s not a rehash of the Snooper’s Charter, politicians claim, but there’s not a lot of time to eyeball it to make sure that’s true. 
SSCC 155 – cybercrime bust, cloud laws, phishing and malware back from extinction [PODCAST]
In this episode, Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin tackle the week’s interesting security stories. John and Duck get stuck into: a high-profile cybercrime arrest; how mainstream brands help phishers; and why macro malware is making a comeback.
What would make you quit Facebook? Here’s what you said …
Last week we asked our readers to take a poll about Facebook’s controversial social experiment on thousands of unknowing users. Lots of you responded – more than 1,000 – and we received a lot of great comments on our post and Read more…
DARPA dissects Twitter, Facebook, Reddit to extract propaganda how-to’s
The internet found out last week that Facebook’s been dissecting us. Now, it looks like DARPA’s been at it too, with research on users of Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, Kickstarter and Digg. 