Well done, internet, you’ve managed to unseat “password” from its spot as the most popular password on the web.

A hacker group calling itself "DERP" has targeted a number of online gaming servers "for the lulz," or so they claim. DERP successfully took over servers like sony.com, EA.com, Battle.net and League of Legends, this achieved trough DDoSing. Denial-of-service attacks, something that hacktivist group Anonymous uses, lead to servers being overloaded by tons of activity and therefore lots of downtime.

The Windows registry is the central database for any information related to your PC, and is therefore core to the way it works. As you install and uninstall new programs, new registry entries are logged or removed. The problems start because the registry is incapable of cleaning up after itself – often, even when a program is uninstalled, remnants of it still remain in the registry, thereby creating an invalid registry entry. You can access the registry yourself easily – just tread carefully once you are in there.

An incredible one quarter of Iceland’s population has had their data stolen after a Turkish hacker compromised Vodafone Iceland’s database of client information.

PC security experts Kapersky have seemingly discovered a flaw in Apple's Safari brwoser that keeps user IDs and passwords stored in plain text. Before you start panicking, this bug only affects OSX10.9.5 running Safari 6.0.5 (8536.30.1) and OSX10.7.5 with Safari 6.0.5 (7536.30.1).The flaw is quite a significant one in any case, and stems from the "Reopen All Windows From Last Session" feature. The document Safari creates to restore old pages is in plaintext and contains user IDs and passwords. While the file is hidden, it's not that difficult to find if you know what you're looking for. "You can just imagine what would happen if cybercriminals or a malicious program got access to the LastSession.plist file on a system where the user logs into Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or their online bank account." wrote Kaprersky in a blogpost.