It's a big step forward in transparency for Snapchat, which formerly described its service in a way that might lead users to think turning over their content to law enforcement would be impossible.
Here are last week's stories in one convenient place so you can catch up on what you missed!
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Uber just poached Facebook's Joe Sullivan to act as the ride-hailing app company's first chief security officer.
It might make you wonder - why didn't Uber have a CSO before now?
Obama signed a new executive order on Wednesday (1 April 2015) authorizing financial sanctions against foreign hackers, and companies that knowingly benefit from cyberattacks against US interests.
Google has taken a heavy hand to ad injectors after a study revealed 34% of surveyed ads were peddling malware and 192 "deceptive Chrome extensions" were discovered.
The court sided with an offender who argued that being forced to wear a location monitor for the rest of his life is unconstitutional.
Kamil Hismatullin fought his desperate urge to delete all things Justin Bieber, he said.
Do we need a privacy assistant on our smartphones?
Today, we just couldn't resist sifting through our Spam Stash.
Here's some comment spam from Naked Security that we thought would amuse you...
A new report claims Facebook is tracking logged out users, non-account holders and EU users who have explicitly opted out of being tracked.
Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin as they dissect the latest news in our weekly computer security podcast.
From the G20 leaders' "passport leak" to World Backup Day, we turn news into useful advice!
If a user forgets to turn off the Twitter button before broadcasting a private video stream, the title gets shared with all the user's followers.
The subpoena demands information on five users of the Darknet Markets subreddit, all of whom discussed the recent fall of Evolution, a mega-mart for drugs.
Two federal agents have been charged with stealing digital currency during the FBI's take-down of the Silk Road marketplace.
The Australian immigration department sent an email to the wrong person, and so passport and visa details for the world's head honchos got disclosed - a mistake the department decided didn't warrant disclosure.
An imprisoned fraudster cooked up a bogus set of bail instructions and emailed it to prison officials who then let him walk out. He granted himself a 3-day furlough, then turned himself back in.
Ransomware has made us all aware of the value of backups - but there are many other reasons to have a copy of your vital data in reserve!
Bugs like Heartbleed and Shellshock can sit unobserved in critically important software for years. The answer, according to DARPA, is intelligent software that fixes buggy programs while we sleep.
Is it time to welcome our new robot guardians?
Security breaches at the US National Security Agency typically get a lot of publicity.
This one is no exception, but it's not a network intrusion or a data leak...
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