Somebody at the US Marshals Service goofed, cc’ing a list of 40 people who’d written to inquire about what was supposed to be an anonymous auction of the Bitcoins seized in the Fed’s raid on Silk Road. 
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Google forced to e-forget a company worldwide
Perhaps inspired by Europeans winning the right to be forgotten in Google search results last month, a Canadian court has ruled that Google has to remove search results for a Canadian company’s competitor, not just in Canada but around the world.
SSCC 152 – PF Chang’s, TrueCrypt (still!), the Twitter worm and the cost of scammers [PODCAST]
Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin turn their attention on the week’s security news. As usual, they extract plenty of useful lessons during their insightful dissection of the latest issues…
Does Facebook’s Slingshot commit true imagicide? Or is it another Snapchat?
“Disappear forever” didn’t mean much when Snapchat said it. Neither Snapchat nor Facebook’s newly released Slingshot stops anybody from taking a screenshot or snapping a photo of the receiving device with another camera, for one thing. 
What’s next for ransomware? Cryptowall picks up where CryptoLocker left off
With many victims paying up, ransomware is a lucrative business for cybercrooks, and CryptoLocker has inspired copycats who want in on the loot. John Zorabedian looks at ransomware that seems to be filling the void left by CryptoLocker’s takedown last month…
FBI arrests alleged NullCrew hacker
Federal prosecutors have arrested and charged a Tennessee man for allegedly conspiring to attack a number of businesses and educational organisations since the middle of 2012.
Is a Facebook death threat a true threat? Supreme Court to decide
The US Supreme Court will re-examine a case in where a man made death threats against his ex-wife on Facebook, giving us a federal decision on whether threats made online need to be made with real intent, or whether they just have to be taken seriously by a reasonable person who’s threatened.
France World Cup team training session snooped on by a “spy drone”
France is shaking its fist at what it thinks may have been a spy drone buzzing its football team as it practiced for Sunday’s opening game. FIFA is investigating. 
Ransomware with a happy ending
Fortunately, not every cybercrook in the world is a good coder. Let’s hope it stays that way…
User-shaming robot Pic Nix banned by Instagram
The plus: it used a nifty, Arduino-powered xy plotter that mimicked a human hand keying in an Instagram post on an actual iPhone. The minus: the “Rube Goldberg for the passive aggressive” allowed users to diss each other’s posts without having the ‘nads to do it to people’s faces’. 