A researcher showed methods for unlocking "high security" consumer electronic safes without leaving any evidence of the attack, Oracle's payment system Micros (which is used at roughly 330,000 cash registers around the world) was hacked, and a Windows vulnerability served as a reminder of why putting backdoors in secure processes doesn't make sense.

WIRED reported on vulnerabilities in the keyless entry systems of roughly 100 million Volkswagens, open Internet advocates are petitioning to keep web access unfettered in Brazil, and hacking newswires to get embargoed press releases is actually a decent way to do insider trading. Oh, and a hardware vulnerability exposed 900 million Android devices. Casual.