Week in review: things other than CES happened

Top German cop uses spyware on daughter, gets hacked in retaliation: What happens when you install a trojan on your daughter’s computer to keep track of her online activities? If you’re a certain German security official, nothing good. Intel’s dream of x86 CPUs inside smartphones closer to reality: Intel finally…

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Worm steals more than 45,000 Facebook logins

A nasty bit of malware making the rounds on Facebook has reportedly made off with the usernames and passwords of more than 45,000 users. Most of those affected by the worm–called Ramnit–are from France and the United Kingdom, according to a bulletin issued by security researchers at Seculert. It is…

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