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Anthem healthcare breach is smaller – and bigger – than first thought
There’s good and bad news about Anthem’s recent data breach. The bad news includes the risk to between 8.8M and 18M non-customers who were in Anthem’s database anyway…
Barclays to launch Twitter payments through Pingit mobile app
A new service from Barclays bank will allow its ‘Pingit’ users to send money to each other over Twitter.
How nine out of ten healthcare pages leak private data
A recent study has shown that nine out of ten visits to health-related web pages result in data being leaked to third parties like Google, Facebook and Experian. That’s not new, so why do we care now? And how does it happen in the first place?
SSCC 187 – The cryptography edition [PODCAST]
Sophos expert John Shier sits in for regular presenter Chester Wisniewski in this episode. John and Paul Ducklin dissect the latest security issues, which were dominated this week by some thorny matters of cryptography.
Koppie Koppie sells photos of your kids to prove you shouldn’t post them online
Two “privacy advocates” running an online store that sells mugs printed with pictures of children are intentionally stirring up controversy by grabbing photos from Flickr. The duo behind Koppie Koppie say it’s perfectly legal, but they hope you get mad about it anyway.
Google turns Pwnium into an all-year, unlimited-rewards bug-hunting contest
Google’s new thinking around bug hunting: get it to us ASAP, from wherever you are. 
Not just celebrity nude photos, Reddit bans all “involuntary porn”
Reddit blew it with The Fappening, but a new privacy policy enables even us nobodies to request image removal.
$3m reward offered for alleged Gameover Zeus kingpin
The US State Department has offered a $3m reward for the arrest or conviction of alleged Gameover Zeus admin Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev.
From the Labs: more advances in Advanced Persistent Threats
SophosLabs researcher Gabor Szappanos is back. He presents another insightful installment in the ongoing saga of PlugX and other “malware factories” that are part of the Advanced Persistent Threat scene.