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  Watch Sophos's James Lyne audition for TED2013

  Sophos - Naked Security

  Sophos's James Lyne recently auditioned to present at next year's main TED conference in Long Beach California: "The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered." Take a look and see what you think.
  
  Watch his audition, and let TED know what you think.
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  Yahoo Voices hacked, nearly half a million emails and passwords stolen

  Sophos - Naked Security

  Yahoo Voices suffers a serious security breach, with over 450,000 unencrypted usernames and passwords posted online by hackers.
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  Disable Windows Sidebar and Gadgets NOW on Vista and Windows 7. Microsoft warns of security risk

  Sophos - Naked Security

  Users of Windows Vista and Windows 7 have been advised to completely disable their Windows Sidebar and Gadgets, in response to what appears to be a serious security risk.
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  Hacked email accounts unleash waves of weight loss spam

  Sophos - Naked Security

  A weight loss spam campaign, being sent from hacked email accounts, is being seen in extremely high numbers.
  
  SophosLabs expert Fraser Howard investigates.
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  Formspring hacked, 28 million users told to change their passwords

  Sophos - Naked Security

  Formspring is the latest in the seemingly unending list of websites to have suffered a security breach - with the password hashes of at least 420,000 users compromised and posted to the internet.
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  Judges don't buy the "I'm an idiot about Facebook privacy settings" defense

  Sophos - Naked Security

  The "I'm an idiot about Facebook settings" argument isn't being swallowed in court, as illustrated in this recent case.
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  Multi-platform backdoor malware targets Windows, Mac and Linux users

  Sophos - Naked Security

  A web-based malware attack has been discovered, targeting users of Windows, Mac and Linux.
  
  Although the amount of malware written for different operating systems can vary, it's becoming increasingly hard to argue that it's safe to surf the web on any OS without anti-virus protection.
  
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  Porn studios accused of extortion in BitTorrent lawsuits

  Sophos - Naked Security

  Porn studios have turned to extortion of BitTorrent users to make money, looking for payouts of $1,000 to $5,000 from victims too embarrassed or shamed to defend themselves in court, a class action suit claims.
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  Criminals in USB key espionage attempt against Dutch multinational. Or not.

  Sophos - Naked Security

  A keen-eyed Naked Security reader alerted us to an interesting-sounding story about a USB-fuelled espionage attempt.
  
  (For those who prefer us to write about security successes, not about failures, this one's for you!)
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  Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012

  Sophos - Naked Security

  Microsoft has released nine patches this month, including the much awaited fix for MSXML (CVE-2012-1889).