Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week

Here are the top stories from the past week so you can catch up with what you missed!

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

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Monday 17 August 2015

• Using ambient sound as a two-factor authentication system
• Cracked Uber accounts tumble to 40 cents on the dark web
• Don't bother signing up for the giant water slide Facebook events

Tuesday 18 August 2015

• IRS estimate of stolen tax records balloons to over 300,000
• Google's Android "Admin" security hole – time to patch!
• 8chan back after Google banned entire domain for child abuse imagery
• Jennifer Aniston's wedding dress photos are fake

Wednesday 19 August 2015

• FCC fines company $750,000 for disabling conference hotspots
• Ashley Madison hackers follow through on threat, dump user database online
• Mumsnet DDoSed, SWATted, hacked – oh, and change your password, too!
• 'Loose tweets destroy fleets' – US Air Force warns
• Hacker pleads guilty in Facebook malware and spam scheme
• Mozilla wants you to beta test this Firefox privacy enhancement

Thursday 20 August 2015

• Jeb Bush: encryption makes it harder to catch "evildoers"
• Updated privacy policies – do you check what’s changed?
• China vows to "clean the internet" in cybercrime crackdown, 15,000 arrested
• Credit card info for 93,000 Web.com customers nabbed in data breach

Friday 21 August 2015

• Google ordered to remove links to 'right to be forgotten' removal stories
• Google customers lose data after lightning strikes
• Amazon bans Flash ads – but not for the reason you may have hoped!
• Alleged sextortionist arrested in Texas – Here's how to protect yourself
• Ashley Madison hackers keep on going, post even BIGGER trove of data

Saturday 22 August 2015

• Surprise! People choose predictable Android lockscreen patterns

Sunday 23 August 2015

• What part of "Prohibited" don't you understand? 60 Second Security

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