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  Hackers hit small US town, steal tax payer data and $400,000

  Sophos - Naked Security

  The town of Burlington, Washington has warned residents that they could be the targets of identity theft, after hackers compromised systems used to run an online automatic utility billing system and emptied $400,000 from a city bank account.
  
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  Scammers adopt new eBay logo in short order

  Sophos - Naked Security

  A slimmer, trimmer new eBay logo, rolled out last week, is already being pasted into phishing scams. Add "skinny letters" to the list of warning signs that flag fake eBay-branded come-ons.
  
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  The bottom falls out of Facebook email malware

  Sophos - Naked Security

  SophosLabs has intercepted a malware attack that has been spammed out, pretending to be a notification about a Facebook friend's sexy video.
  
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  Beware! DHL Express malware attack appearing in inboxes

  Sophos - Naked Security

  SophosLabs has intercepted a widespread malware campaign that has been spammed out, disguised as a communication from DHL Express.
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  US court says reading other people's online email is OK, privacy be damned

  Sophos - Naked Security

  The case involves a woman's hacking into her former boss's Yahoo account to uncover evidence of his extramarital affair. Judges decreed that email stored in the cloud, such as Gmail or Yahoo Mail, doesn't meet the definition of "electronic storage" as written in the Stored Communications Act.
  
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  LulzSec hacker pleads guilty to Sony Pictures attack, faces prison sentence

  Sophos - Naked Security

  A former member of the LulzSec hacking gang has admitted to attacking the Sony Pictures website, and stealing the personal information of thousands of innocent individuals.
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  Monday review: the hot 24 stories of the week

  Sophos - Naked Security

  Here you go.
  
  All the stories we wrote in the past seven days, in case you missed anything (or just want to read them again).
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  New Zealand public-access kiosk SNAFU gives public access to intimate personal information

  Sophos - Naked Security

  Kiwi journalist Keith Ng wrote over the weekend about his experiences with kiosk computers at a New Zealand government department.
  
  Ng's experience was both dramatic and worrying. He was able to access far, far too much.
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  Hackers pwn the sun - Exploit code released for software used to manage solar energy plants

  Sophos - Naked Security

  The US Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert that hackers have released proof of concept exploit code for vulnerabilities in a common SCADA software package used to manage solar energy systems.
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  Is Google about to start scanning your Android for malware?

  Sophos - Naked Security

  A new edition of the Google Play app (Android's equivalent to the iOS App Store) appears to be preparing to add anti-virus functionality to the mobile operating system.