Monday review – the hot 22 stories of the week

Here are last week’s stories in one convenient place so you can catch up on what you missed!

Watch the top news in 60 seconds, and then check out the individual links to read in more detail.

Monday 30 March 2015

• NSA faces security scare, this time physical: 1 killed, 2 injured in HQ incident
• Slack gets hacked – rolls out two-factor authentication after user database breach
• Stolen Uber login credentials for sale on the dark web
• Hotel Wi-Fi router security hole: will this be the Ultimate Pwnie Award Winning Bug for 2015?
• Safari users win right to sue Google over secret cookies

Tuesday 31 March 2015

• Federal agents charged over alleged Silk Road Bitcoin theft
• G20 delegates' personal data breached in autofill email glitch
• Man escapes from jail after sending fake bail email
• World Backup Day – is your data safe enough?
• DARPA's plan to make software security "the domain of machines"

Wednesday 1 April 2015

• April Fools! The day's weirdest spams revealed…
• Facebook hits back at report claiming it tracks pretty much everyone
• SSCC 192 – What's that passport number DOING IN AN EMAIL? [PODCAST]
• Twitter’s new Periscope app takes a user privacy hit
• Feds subpoena Reddit for personal info of dark web forum members

Thursday 2 April 2015

• Obama signs executive order to sanction foreign hackers
• Google clamps down on ad injectors after 100,000 Chrome users complained
• GPS tracking counts as a "search", says US Supreme Court
• How one man could have deleted every video on YouTube
• "Your location has been shared 5398 times" – Do we need a privacy assistant on our smartphones?

Friday 3 April 2015

• Uber gets its first chief security officer – Facebook's Joe Sullivan

Saturday 4 April 2015

• Has Uber scored an executive touchdown? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]

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