IT Stories for 2011

Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? 339
Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise 234
Attack Tool Released For WPS Setup Flaw 164
TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas 338
Intel Ships New Atom Processors To PC Makers 59
No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 233
Researchers Demo New GSM Attacks at Chaos Communications Congress 17
Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update 156
IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers 378
Progressive Era Hacker Griefed Marconi Demonstration 147
New York Times Hacked? 103
Data Exposed In Stratfor Compromise Analyzed 141
Samsung Reconsidering Android 4.0 On the Galaxy S 192
Justifications For Creating an IT Department? 214
Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? 848
New WiFi Setup Flaw Allows Easy Router PIN Guessing 86
Will Hackers Try To Disrupt the Iowa Caucuses? 162
GnuPG Short ID Collision Has Occurred. 110
Israeli Spyware Sold To Iran 164
Researchers Build TCP-Based Spam Detection 81
New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End 126
Android Approved By Pentagon 160
Anonymous Hacks US Think Tank Stratfor 356
Sorry, IT: These 5 Technologies Belong To Users 348
Cyber Insurance Industry Expected To Boom 58
U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare 206
Trion Worlds' Rift Account Database Compromised 88
Vanity Fair On the TSA and Security Theater 256
EFF Reverse Engineers Carrier IQ 103
The Problem With Windows 8's Picture Password 206
Chinese Developer Forum Leaks 6 Million User Credentials 102
Twitter To Open Source Android Security Tech 164
EU Shipping Sector Cyber Security Awareness "Non-Existent" 55
Researcher Claims Siemens Lied About Security Bugs 46
Book Review: Defense Against the Black Arts 58
New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 284
US Chamber of Commerce Infiltrated By Chinese Hackers 173
Gaining a Remote Shell On Android 124
October, November the Worst Months For Writing Buggy Code 136
IBM's Five Predictions For the Next Five Years 219
Ready For Your Payroll Software Update? 105
Tech Forensics Take Center Stage in Manning Pre-Trial 172
Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive 603
Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? 601
MIT Software Allows Queries On Encrypted Databases 68
Moxie Marlinspike Answers Your Questions 76
Businesses Now Driving "Bring Your Own Device" Trend 232
Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From Developer To Executive? 229
How To Thwart the High Priests In IT 417
How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest? 238
Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children 284
Self-Contained PC Liquid Coolers Explored 86
Google Rolls Out Official Android 4.0 ICS Update 92
New Standard For Issuance of SSL/TLS Certificates 62
Challenges of Setting Up a Security Conference 29
Google Wallet Stores Card Data In Plain Text 213
Ask Slashdot: Good Metrics For a Small IT Team? 315
Running Tor On Your TV 80
Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE 476
Meet the Strange Bedfellows Who Could Stop SOPA 231
Hotel ISP iBahn Denies Breach By Chinese Hackers 30
Oracle Sued For 'Extortion, Lies' By Montclair State University 359
The Four Fallacies of IT Metrics 223
Feds Arrest GeneSimmons.Com Attacker 180
The Undeclared "Cyber Cold War" With China 260
KDE Releases Plasma Active Two 49
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Non-Developers To Send Meaningful Bug Reports? 360
Carrier IQ Responds To FBI Drama, EFF Wants More Information 140
Ask Slashdot: Working As an IT Contractor In a War Zone? 352
In Favor of Homegrown IT Solutions 265
Many Early Adopters of the Amazon Fire Are Unhappy 463
Google Deploys IPv6 For Internal Network 260
Was Russia Behind Stuxnet? 281
Computer Virus Forces Hospital To Divert Ambulances 213
Google-Funded Study Knocks Firefox Security 225
Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers 187
TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts 493
Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least 435
Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? 332
OpenDNS Releases DNS Encryption Tool 94
Another Dutch CA Hacked 152
Two-Thirds of Lost USB Drives Carry Malware 196
Intel and Micron Unveil 128Gb NAND Chip 133
Study Shows Many Sites Still Failing Basic Security Measures 103
Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability 236
Lawmaker Proposes Cyberthreat Sharing Group 41
PlayBook Jailbreak Tool Released 60
Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess? 424
Scammers Work Around Two-Factor Authentication With Social Engineering 186
Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant 561
IT Pros Can't Resist Peeking At Privileged Info 388
Google Employees Are Receiving Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade 71
Browser History Sniffing Is Back 161
Email Offline At the Home of Sendmail 179
GCHQ Challenge Solution Explained 107
Apple May Build Oregon Data Center Next To Facebook's 91
Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network 300
Repurposing Anti-Spam Tools For Detecting Mutations In HIV 67
Interpreting the Constitution In the Digital Era 144
Apple, Android Devices Swamp NYC Schools' ActiveSync Server 205
Domain Theft-for-Ransom Hits css-tricks.com and Others 147
San Francisco Team Wins DARPA's De-Shredding Contest 94
Was Conficker Stuxnet's Trojan? 57
GNOME Shell Extensions Are Live 204
How Tech Vendors Help Governments Spy On Their Citizens 102
Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? 517
Patriot Act Clouds Picture For Tech 203
Researchers Find Big Leaks In Pre-installed Android Apps 136
US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers 1167
UK Recruiting Codebreakers Via Social Networks 85
Bank Accounts Vulnerable For Victims of ZeuS Trojan Variant 'Gameover' 80
RIM PlayBook Tablet Jailbroken 63
Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? 334
WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study 96
Ruby Clouds: Engine Yard Vs. Heroku 41
Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks 529
China Wants Cyber Crisis Hotline 58
How Tiny Worms Could Help Humans Colonize Mars 101
News Corp. Hacking Scandal Spreads To Government 105
Attackers Leak UN Usernames and Passwords 48
Duqu Attackers Managed to Wipe C&C Servers 227
Android Dev Demonstrates CarrierIQ Phone Logging Software On Video 322
Behind the Government's Rules of Cyber War 117
Google Researchers Propose Plan To Fix CA System 91
Microsoft Working On Kinect 2 75
Physicist Uses Laser Light As Fast, True-Random Number Generator 326
RIM To Offer Multiplatform Device Management 55
Printers Could Be the Next Attack Vector 175
Does Telecommuting Make You Invisible? 275
Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? 253
Twitter Buys Moxie Marlinspike's Crypto Startup 50
Internet Monitoring: Who Watches the Watchers? 75
Apache Flaw Allows Internal Network Access 99
AT&T Customer Phone Hacking Tied To Terrorists 39
Hacker Tries To Land IT Job At Marriott Via Extortion 218
Linux Mint 12 Released Today 396
Why Everyone Hates the IT Department 960
Philippines Call Centers Overtake India 165
Airport Security: Thermal Lie-Detectors, Cloned Sniffer Dogs 101
$350 Hardware Cracks HDMI Copy Protection 161
Senator Wants 'Terrorist' Label On Blogs 370
iTunes Flaw Allowed Spying On Dissidents 82
FBI Scolds NASDAQ Over Out of Date Patches 66
Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium 207
Dutch Government Officially Trusts OpenVPN-NL 53
Carrier IQ Relents, Apologizes 78
Police Encrypt Radios To Tune Out Public 242
Ask Slashdot: Data Remanence Solutions? 209
Ask Hacker and Security Gadfly Moxie Marlinspike 70
Water Pump Destruction Not Due To SCADA Hack 90
US Government Probes Huawei and ZTE 122
Internet Water Army On the March 137
CarrierIQ Tries To Silence Security Researcher 216
Tool Kills Hidden Linux Bugs, Vulnerabilities 47
New Batch of Leaked Climate Emails 585
Users' Data Target Of 'Targeted Attack' on AT&T 28
OpenPGP Implemented In JavaScript 167
Separating Fact From Hype On Mobile Malware 46
Fox-IT Completes the Picture On the Factored RSA-512 Keys 38
MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly? 748
SCADA Hacker: Water District Used 3-Character Password 213
Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack 575
Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? 296
How Ford Will Upgrade Owners' Display Screens 215
Feds Investigating Water Utility Pump Failure As Possible Cyberattack 136
Why Do Companies Backup So Infrequently? 403
Ask Slashdot: Best Tools To Aid When "On Call"? 249
Windows 8 Secure Boot Defeated 205
The Futility of Developer Productivity Metrics 203
Potential 0-Day Vulnerability For BIND 9 187
Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge 358
Hiding Messages In VoIP Packets 83
TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners 233
First Look: Oracle NoSQL Database 117
Experts 'Convinced' Duqu Work of Stuxnet Authors 85
Intel Announces Xeon E5 and Knights Corner HPC Chip 122
Romanian Accused of Breaking Into NASA 169
New Malware Signed With Stolen Government Certificate 34
Tor-Enabled Browser For the iPad, and Easy Tor Nodes on EC2 75
GAO Criticizes IRS Over Serious IT Deficiencies 57
EU Approves Unified Full Body Scanner Regulations 225
Via Launches a New Mini-ITX System 162
First 16-Core Opteron Chips Arrive From AMD 189
French Power Company Fined For Hacking Greenpeace 196
Inside the Duqu Worm's Source Code 157
Mac OS X Sandbox Security Hole Uncovered 155
Judge Makes Divorcing Couple Swap Facebook Passwords 332
Linux Kernel Power Bug Is Fixed 145
So You Want To Be a Zero Day Exploit Millionaire? 36
Will Adobe's HTML5 Strategy Help Developers? 129
DARPA Wants To Get Rid of Password Protection 205
Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion 434
How Cell Phone Money Laundering Works 39
Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System 451
Ask Slashdot: Post-Quantum Asymmetric Key Exchange? 262
With Troop Drawdown, IT Looks To Hire More Vets 212
ARM Claims PS3-Like Graphics On Upcoming Mobile GPU 217
FBI Takes Out $14M DNS Malware Operation 57
IT's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru 112
Asus Unveils Quad-Core Transformer Prime Tablet 274
New, More Autonomous Asimo Robot Unveiled By Honda 62
Image Analysis and Verification To Track Pictures 31
Fedora 16 Released 125
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Spammers You Know? 333
In Favor of FreeBSD On the Desktop 487
DARPA Seeks Input On Securing Networks Against Attackers 119
Anonymous Hacks Finland 129
Vulnerabilities Discovered In Prison SCADA Systems 128
Brazilian ISPs Hit With Massive DNS Attack 85
Charlie Miller Circumvents Code Signing For iOS Apps 172
Help Rename the Department of Homeland Security 382
RIAA Lawyer Complains DMCA May Need Revamp 303
Fujitsu Announces 16-core SPARC64 IXfx (and the Supercomputer It Powers) 68
Hacked MIT Server Used To Stage Attacks 75
Apple Security Chief Steps Down After iPhone Gaffe 93
Ask Slashdot: Spoof an Email Bounce With Windows? 244
Open Source Tool Scans For Duqu Drivers 64
SSL Certificate Authorities vs. Convergence, Perspectives 127
Dropbox Pursues Business Accounts, But Falls Short On Privacy Laws 122
Japanese Supercomputer K Hits 10.51 Petaflops 125
MS Traces Duqu Zero-Day To Font Parsing In Win32k 221
Book Review: Securing the Clicks 19
VMware, a Falling Giant? 417
Microsoft, Mozilla and Google Ban Malaysian Intermediate CA 80
Godfather of Xen On Why Virtualization Means Everything 150
NASA Plans App Store For Scientists 36
Apple Acknowledges iPhone 4S Battery Problems 315
Apple To Require Sandboxing For Mac App Store Apps 584
Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare 533
Google's iOS Gmail App Pulled 90
Carbonite Privacy Breach Leads To Spam 134
Duqu Installer Exploits Windows Kernel Zero Day 164
How X-Ray Scanners Became Mandatory In US Airports 264
China's Cyber-Warfare Capabilities Overstated 140
Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack 397
Ask Slashdot: How To Securely Share Passwords? 402
OpenBSD 5.0 Unleashed On the World 185
Spear Phishing Campaign Hits Dozens of Chemical, Defense Firms 46
New Mac OS Trojan Produces BitCoins 247
Microsoft Proposes Fix For E-Voting Attack 111
First Android Device Certified For DoD Personnel 79
Federal Contractors Are $600 Screwdrivers 593
Authorities Seize Duqu's C&C Servers In Mumbai 53
Microsoft Drops Suit Against Firm In Botnet Case 49
Ohio Emergency Responders Stage Mock Zombie Invasion 219
Can Open Hardware Transform the Data Center? 41
RIM Helps Indian Authorities Access BlackBerry Messages 74
Four CAs Have Been Compromised Since June 87
TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers 658
FAA Goes To the Web To Fight Laser-Pointing 379

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