IT Stories for 2009

New Open Source Intrusion Detector Suricata Released 44
TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive 379
Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? 605
Quantum Encryption Implementation Broken 133
5th Underhanded C Contest Now Open 162
How Many Admins Per User/Computer Have You Seen? 414
Uniforms For the Help Desk? 837
Adobe Flash To Be Top Hacker Target In 2010 180
GSM Decryption Published 299
Man Challenges 250,000 Strong Botnet and Succeeds 206
One Expert Pegs Yearly Cost of IT Failure At $6.2 Trillion 242
Security In the Ether 93
Preventing My Hosting Provider From Rooting My Server? 539
NetBIOS Design Allows Traffic Redirection 68
Holiday E-Commerce DDoS Attack Hits EC2 Cloud 75
Wikileaks Needs Help, and Not Just Money 134
Is Code Auditing of Open Source Apps Necessary? 108
Amazon Kindle Proprietary Format Broken 203
Intel Patches Flaws In Trusted Execution Tech 84
Citibank Denies Reported Breach Linked To Russian Gang 53
Windows 7 May Finally Get IPv6 Deployed 283
The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade 378
Microsoft Policies Help Virus Writers, Says Security Firm 166
Cyber-Security Czar To Be Named 139
Malware and Botnet Operators Going ISP 131
Where Are the Cheap Thin Clients? 349
Are You Using SPF Records? 263
DRM Flub Prevented 3D Showings of Avatar In Germany 386
Autonomous Intelligent Botnets Bouncing Back 152
Doom-Like Video Surveillance For Ports In Development 56
VMware Workstation vs. VirtualBox vs. Parallels 289
Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop 929
Are Complex Games Doomed To Have Buggy Releases? 362
Gravatars Can Leak Users' Email Addresses 170
Hackers Counter Microsoft COFEE With Some DECAF 154
Project Honey Pot Traps Billionth Spam 118
What Is the State of Linux Security DVR Software? 112
Adobe Warns of Reader, Acrobat Attack 195
The Trial of Terry Childs Begins 502
Cybersecurity Czar Job Is Useless, Says Spafford 104
Building a Global Cyber Police Force 155
ID Thief Tries To Get Witnesses Whacked 168
Office 2003 Bug Locks Owners Out 247
US and Russia Open Talks On Limits To Cyberwar 80
Hackers Find Home In Amazon EC2 Cloud 89
SQL Injection Attack Claims 132,000+ 186
Malware Found Hidden In Screensaver On Gnome-Look 611
Saboteur Launch Plagued By Problems With ATI Cards 230
US No Longer Leading the World In Spam 96
Microsoft To Get Malware Bailout In Germany 226
Saying No To Promotions Away From Tech? 410
What Can I Expect As an IT Intern? 325
TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All 605
Subverting Fingerprinting 169
WPA-PSK Cracking As a Service 175
What Do You Look For In a Conference? 186
Facebook ID Probe Shows Things Getting Worse 174
Hackers vs. Phishers 137
Open Source Attempt To Crack GSM Encryption 78
A Look At the Safety of Google Public DNS 213
One Way To Save Digital Archives From File Corruption 257
Malware Could Grab Data From Stock iPhones 127
Federal Appeals Court Tosses Spam Patent 76
Cameroon the New Hotbed of Malware 92
SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation 621
Black Screen of Death Not Microsoft's Fault 583
The Voynich Manuscript May Have Been Decoded 320
Somali Pirates Open Up a "Stock Exchange" 666
SarBox Lawsuit Could Rewrite IT Compliance Rules 124
Microsoft Investigates Windows 7 "Black Screen of Death" 351
Spammer Lance Atkinson Fined $16 Million 100
The Cloud Ate My Homework 305
Serious Remote FreeBSD Exploit Posted, Patched 7
Harvard Says Computers Don't Save Hospitals Money 398
Ethics of Releasing Non-Malicious Linux Malware? 600
Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU? 314
Should You Be Paid For Being On Call? 735
Man Arrested For RuneScape MMORPG Online Robbery 118
Network Security While Traveling? 312
Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" 736
Facebook Putting Batteries On-Board Its Servers 155
Massive Badware Campaign Targets Google's "Long Tail" 88
Security Firms Can't Protect iPhone From Threats 137
FreeBSD 8.0 Released 235
Microsoft Issues Takedown Notices Over COFEE 69
Inkscape 0.47 Released 225
Major IE8 Flaw Makes "Safe" Sites Unsafe 83
Prison Terms For Spammer Ralsky, Scientology DoS Attacker 328
New Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Backup 211
English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder 291
Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls 224
Recession Pushes More Workers To Steal Data 280
Simple, Free Web Remote PC Control? 454
New Attack Fells Internet Explorer 202
Brazilian Breaks Secrecy of Brazil's E-Voting Machines With Van Eck Phreaking 157
Best Practices For Infrastructure Upgrade? 264
First Malicious iPhone Worm In the Wild 135
Cyber Attacks On US Military Jump Sharply In 2009 76
RFID Fingerprints To Fight Tag Cloning 59
Zero-Day Vulnerabilities In Firefox Extensions 208
Fedora 12 Package Installation Policy Tightened 172
MS Finds Security Flaw In Google Chrome Frame 214
Microsoft Denies It Built Backdoor Into Windows 7 450
New York State Testing Emergency Alerts Over Gaming Networks 212
FAA Computer Glitch Causes Widespread Airline Delays 133
Two Arrested For Zbot Trojan 95
US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption 570
Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges 502
Bizarre Droid Auto-Focus Bug Revealed 275
Firefox 3.6 Locks Out Rogue Add-ons 265
Hackers Broke Into Brazil Power Grid Operator's Website Last Thursday 85
Cooling Bags Could Cut Server Cooling Costs By 93% 135
What's Coming In KDE 4.4 423
SSL Renegotiation Attack Becomes Real 97
Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors? 549
DNSSEC Implementation Held Up By Tech Delays 57
Most Security Products Fail To Perform 99
The First Windows 7 Zero-Day Exploit 289
The "Hail Mary Cloud" Is Growing 102
DNS Problem Linked To DDoS Attacks Gets Worse 69
Hackers Fail To Crack Brazilian Voting Machines 143
US Cybersecurity Plan Includes Offense 101
Flash Vulnerability Found, Adobe Says No Fix Forthcoming 355
Recovering the Slums of the Internet? 218
Keeping Pacemakers Safe From Hackers 167
HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web 406
How To DDoS a Federal Wiretap 112
Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? 932
Making Carriers Shoulder Smartphone Security 57
Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close 369
Scientists Unveil Lightweight Rootkit Protection 168
Microsoft Plugs "Drive-By" and 14 Other Holes 189
$9 Million ATM Hacking Ring Indicted 86
Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? 1007
Researchers Take Down a Spam Botnet 207
Microsoft Tries To Censor Bing Vulnerability 275
How Do You Evaluate a Data Center? 211
Reporting To Executives 301
Massive Power Outages In Brazil Caused By Hackers 462
Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer 586
First iPhone Worm Discovered, Rickrolls Jailbroken Phones 215
Microsoft COFEE Leaked 171
Test of 16 Anti-Virus Products Says None Rates "Very Good" 344
Cisco Security System Shuts Out Third-Party Tools 37
National Data Breach Law Advances 51
Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists 342
Shockwave Vulnerabilities Affect More Than 450 Million Systems 130
Facebook and MySpace Backdoors Found, Fixed 106
Man-In-the-Middle Vulnerability For SSL and TLS 170
Maryland Town Tests New Cryptographic Voting System 227
On-Demand Video + CMS + Interactive Input For Museum? 131
PayPal Introduces Open API 128
Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking 698
SORBS Blocklist Reportedly Sold For $451K 88
Bug In Most Linuxes Can Give Untrusted Users Root 281
Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms 1146
The Machine SID Duplication Myth 201
Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala 1231
In Test, Windows 7 Vulnerable To 8 Out of 10 Viruses 843
Negroponte Hints At Paper-Like Design For XO-3 69
Cracking PGP In the Cloud 167
Feds Bust Cable Modem Hacker 658
Microsoft Links Malware Rates To Pirated Windows 348
IT Snake Oil — Six Tech Cure-Alls That Went Bunk 483
Transpacific Unity Fiber Optic Cable Leaves Japan 136
uTorrent To Build In Transfer-Throttling Ability 187
Contest To Hack Brazilian Voting Machines 101
After 1 Year, Conficker Infects 7M Computers 95
Facebook Awarded $711 Million In Anti-Spam Case 179
USB 3.0 the Real Deal, SATA 6GB Not Yet 168
Fixing Bugs, But Bypassing the Source Code 234
New Improvements On the Attacks On WPA/TKIP 166
ARM Stealthily Rising As a Low-End Contender 285
Intel Pulls SSD Firmware Day After Release 125
Asterisk Vishing Attacks "Endemic" 141
jQuery Dev Bemoans Overwhelming Spam On Google Groups 251
Trojan Kill Switches In Military Technology 392
Moving Away From the IT Field? 783
UK Law Enforcement Is Against "3-Strikes" 134
Arbitrary Code Execution With "ldd" 184
Cyberterror Not Yet a Credible Threat, Says Policy Thinktank 165
ARM Launches Cortex-A5 Processor, To Take On Atom 176
Now Linux Can Get Viruses, Via Wine 343
Impressing Security Upon End-Users Visually? 157
Of Encrypted Hard Drives and "Evil Maids" 376
Nigerian "Scam Police" Shut Down 800 Web Sites 200
China Expands Cyberspying In US, Report Says 186
Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users 185
Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar 570
Metasploit Project Sold To Rapid7 70
Windows 7 On Multicore — How Much Faster? 349
Google Envisions 10 Million Servers 169
How Do You Manage Dev/Test/Production Environments? 244
Google Voice Mails Found In Public Search Engine 145
The Economics of Federal Cloud Computing Analyzed 85
OpenBSD 4.6 Released 178
Canadian Copyright Lobby Fights Anti-Spyware Legislation 104
Sneaky Microsoft Add-On Put Firefox Users At Risk 333
Affordably Aggregating ISP Connections? 180
MS Says All Sidekick Data Recovered, But Damage Done 279
Michael Dell Says Windows 7 Will Make You Love PCs 627
1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right In Finland 875
Delta Air Lines Sued Over Alleged E-mail Hacking 152
3D Fingerprinting — Touchless, More Accurate, and Faster 103
Washington Post Says Use Linux To Avoid Bank Fraud 422
EFF Warns TI Not To Harass Calculator Hobbyists 405
Details Emerge of 2006 Wal-Mart Hack 66
Entire .SE TLD Drops Off the Internet 207
Major Snow Leopard Bug Said To Delete User Data 353
SSL Still Mostly Misunderstood, Even By the Pros 292
Server Failure Destroys Sidekick Users' Backup Data 304
Why Cloud Storage Is Lousy For Enterprises (and Individuals) 183
Windows Server Trusts Samba4 Active Directory 182
When Do You Fire a Headhunter? 344
Bahama Botnet Stealing Traffic From Google 52
Microsoft Plans Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday 341
Comcast's War On Infected PCs (Or All Customers) 304
Hackers Targeting Xbox Live 136
How Dangerous Could a Hacked Robot Possibly Be? 229
FBI Cracks "Largest Phishing Case Ever" 132
Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online 360
Details On Worldwide Surveillance and Filtering 125
Cyber-criminal Left In Charge of Prison Computer Network 389
Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s 438
Massive Phishing Campaign Hits Multiple Email Services 183
Null-Prefix SSL Certificate For PayPal Released 351
Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On November 16 127
72% of Banks Say Their Employees Committed Fraud 272
Researchers Hijack Mebroot Botnet, Study Drive-By Downloads 130
Hidden Fees Discovered For "Free" Windows 7 Upgrade 406
Sloppy Linux Admins Enable Slow Brute-Force Attacks 391
DHS Wants To Hire 1,000 Cybersecurity Experts 222
Identity Theft Is Usually an Unsophisticated Crime 86
Fighting "Snowshoe" Spam 85
OpenSSH Going Strong After 10 Years With Release of v5.3 249
Fake Antivirus Overwhelming Scanners 334
Microsoft Blocks Pirates From Security Essentials Software 291
Auto-Detecting Malware? It's Possible 178
Dam Burst Tool Disables China's Green Dam Censorware 40
US Relaxes Control Over ICANN 230
Using Aluminum Oxide Paint To Secure Wi-Fi 271
Microsoft Security Essentials Released; Rivals Mock It 465
IT Security Breaches Soar In 2009 65
Apple Pushes Unwanted Software To PCs, Again 267
Has the Glory Gone Out of Working In IT? 623
Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed 650
Schneier On Un-Authentication 336
Reddit Javascript Exploit Spreading Virally 239
Cyber Gangs Raise Profile of Commercial Online Bank Security 140
AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks 501

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