An XSS hole could apparently have allowed a crook to pop up a realistic PayPal “pay page” and steal the victim’s card data. Paul Ducklin takes a look…
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National Crime Agency snares teens who used Lizard Squad DDoS tool
The NCA says it wants to reform the teens caught up in its operation targeting users of LizardStresser, an online tool for attacking websites. Is a stern talking-to enough? Or should they face jail time?
Facebook set to clamp down on video piracy
Videos on Facebook largely belong to other people but that’s set to change as the company develops new tools and procedures to quickly identify and remove infringing content.
Dark Web market Agora suspends operations due to Tor vulnerability
The temporary move is meant to forestall potential attacks that could expose server IP addresses.
Man arrested after posting Facebook videos of him tampering with traffic cameras
It involves a long pole and a couple of balls. And yes, you can take that multiple ways.
How a crook could have taken over your Facebook pages
A Facebook bug hunter just found a hole through which crooks could take over your personal Facebook pages. Facebook fixed it PDQ…
Autoplaying video of journalists’ murders gives Facebook, Twitter users pause
Social media users unwillingly witnessed video of the murders of two television journalists yesterday, due to a default feature on Facebook and Twitter that plays videos automatically. Here’s how to turn “autoplay” off.
California pushes 350-foot no-fly drone law
Operators would need express permission to legally fly UAVs above a property’s ground level: a hurdle that could ground tech’s big plans. 
Curt Schilling suspended over tweet comparing Muslims to Nazi-era Germans
The tweet compared the percentage of Germans who were Nazis with the number of Muslims who are extremists.
Now there’s a species of crayfish named after Edward Snowden
In a research paper published this week in the journal ZooKeys, German carcinologist Christian Lukhaup revealed the name of a new species of crayfish he discovered. He called it Cherax snowden.