Weekend news review: September 1-5

FBI, Apple investigate celebrity photo hacking incident
Reports surfaced that iCloud vulnerabilities may have allowed hackers to obtain personal photos, including nude images, of over 100 celebrities. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://bit.ly/1vXA7T0" target="_blank">Read more</a>
Home Depot investigates possible payment card breach
Home Depot said on Tuesday that it is working with its banking partners and law enforcement to investigate a possible data breach. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://bit.ly/1qmFQOO" target="_blank">Read more</a>
'KorBanker' steals SMS messages, takes authentication codes in the process
Android devices in Korea have primarily been impacted by the malware. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://bit.ly/1uDfdoj" target="_blank">Read more</a>
Firefox 32 includes public key pinning, fixes critical vulnerabilities
Mozilla enabled public key pinning support in Firefox 32 primarily as a way to defend against man-in-the-middle attacks. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://bit.ly/1qtZgkV" target="_blank">Read more</a>
Goodwill announces breach, more than 800K payment cards compromised
Goodwill confirmed that payment card data was accessed following a malware attack on a third-party vendor used in about 10 percent of its stores. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://bit.ly/1vU45qX" target="_blank">Read more</a>
DDoS attacks rally Linux servers
A significant string of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) campaigns during the second quarter of 2014 were driven by Linux web servers. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://bit.ly/1uCUNfp" target="_blank">Read more</a>
Microsoft plans four patches, one critical, for Patch Tuesday
The sole critical patch this month will address remote code execution issues in Internet Explorer. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://bit.ly/1uoUeGO" target="_blank">Read more</a>
Microsoft plans four patches, one critical, for Patch Tuesday
The sole critical patch this month will address remote code execution issues in Internet Explorer. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://bit.ly/1uoUeGO" target="_blank">Read more</a>A celebrity nude photo scandal dominated the news this week. Apple denies that a vulnerability in its iCloud system let attackers steal the photos. Two major retailers might have suffered breaches this week: Home Depot and Goodwill. For a closer look at these articles, click here to visit our news section.
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