IT Stories for 2009

Ants Vs. Worms — Computer Security Mimics Nature 104
Up To 9% of a Company's Machines Are Bot-Infected 146
Idaho Tops America's Most-Spammed States 97
First-Ever USB 3.0 Hard Drive 191
Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure 459
Coverity Report Finds OSS Bug Density Down Since 2006 79
Making Data Unvanish 34
US Wants UK Hacker To Pay To Fix Holes He Exposed 403
Are Data Center "Tiers" Still Relevant? 98
Large-Scale Mac Deployment? 460
The Perils of Ramming Products Down IT's Throat 461
Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid 607
60 Years of Cryptography, 1949-2009 104
Why Developers Get Fired 535
Using Encryption Garners Exemption For Data Breach Notification 101
Microsoft Files Suits Against "Malvertisers" 205
Blizzard Offers Look Inside WoW At GDC 188
DHS Ponders "Improving" Terrorism Alert System 320
Universal "Death Stench" Repels Bugs of All Types 248
Spyware Prank Exposes Hospital Medical Records 319
Security / Privacy Advice? 260
Feds Ask IT Execs To Throw Away Cellphones After Visiting China 382
Snow Leopard Missed a Security Opportunity 304
DHS To Review Report On US Power Grid Vulnerability 138
SANS Report Says Organizations Focusing On the Wrong Security Threats 98
Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP 759
Australian ISPs Asked To Cut Off Malware-Infected PCs 286
iPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering 684
New Standard For EU-Compliant Electronic Signatures 42
New York Times Site Pop-Up Says Your Computer Is Infected 403
Google Groups Used To Control Botnets 63
Boston City Government Discovers Email Retention 184
First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered 254
Oracle To Increase Investment In SPARC and Solaris 146
Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown 576
Greg Kroah-Hartman Gripes About Microsoft's Linux Contribution; MS Renews Effort 213
AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays 439
How Much Is Your Online Identity Worth? 199
Watered Down Phishing Protection In IPhone OS 3.1? 98
Vast Malware Repository Dedicated To R&D 81
The Real-World State of Windows Use 374
OLPC 1.5 Hardware Upgrades Include Java, Full-Screen Video 67
Comparing Microsoft and Apple Websites' Usability 314
Cryptographic Tools To Keep You Hidden On Facebook 148
Geeks Prefer Competence To Niceness 300
Microsoft, Cisco Finally Patch TCP DoS Flaw 114
DRM Take II — Digital Personal Property 356
Windows 7 Reintroduces Remote BSoD 427
Intel Lynnfield CPU Bests Nehalem In Performance/Watt 173
US Supercomputer Uses Flash Storage Drives 72
A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard's Exchange Support 276
Wordpress.org Warns of Active Worm Hacking Blogs 103
Recovery Tool Includes Leak of Palm's WebOS 1.2 43
ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms 616
Mozilla To Protect Adobe Flash Users 132
Code-Breaking Quantum Algorithm On a Silicon Chip 133
Appropriate Interviewing For a Worldwide Search? 440
Symantec Wants To Use Victims To Hunt Computer Criminals 139
Educause Announces Plans To Sign .edu TLD With DNSSEC 49
How To Hire a Hacker 370
Happy Birthday, Internet! 213
Has the Rate of Technical Progress Slowed? 712
The Myths of Security 216
Skype Trojan Can Log VoIP Conversations 151
Spammers Use Holes In Democrats.org Security 129
The Story of a Simple and Dangerous OS X Kernel Bug 230
Security Test Prompts Federal Fraud Alert 36
Crime Expert Backs Call For "License To Compute" 327
FBI Investigating Mystery Laptops Sent To US Governors 329
Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD 205
Snow Leopard Drops Palm OS Sync 290
Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days 443
WPA Encryption Cracked In 60 Seconds 322
Using a House's Concrete Foundation To Cool a PC 465
Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade 673
Legitimate ISP a Cover-up For a Cybercrime Network 68
Sun Plans Security Coprocessor For New Ultrasparc 59
Coder of Swiss Wiretapping Trojan Speaks Out 114
Offshore Drilling Rigs Vulnerable To Hackers 116
Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline 683
Banks Urge Businesses To Lock Down Online Banking 201
Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems 268
Gaming the App Store 217
Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus 335
IE Should Use Google's Malware List 109
Getting Through the FOSS License Minefield 96
What Is the Best Way To Track Stolen Gadgets? 101
Vulnerability, Potential Exploit In Cisco WLAN APs 35
Anti-Spam Lawyer Loses Appeal, and His Possessions 237
Real-Time Keyloggers 205
Facebook App Exposes Abject Insecurity 205
DOJ Gives Oracle Approval To Buy Sun 162
EVE Bans Exploiters; Dropping 2% of Users Cuts Average CPU Usage 30% 261
Amazon, MS, and Yahoo Against Google's Library 144
Criminals Prefer Firefox, Opera Web Browsers 172
Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk 289
PCI Express 3.0 Delayed Till 2011 80
The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker 282
Amazon, MS, Google Clouds Flop In Stress Tests 154
Pidgin Adds Google Talk Voice and Video Support (and a Vulnerability) 127
Network Adapter Keeps Talking While a PC Is Asleep 188
The Decline of the Landline 435
How To Build a 100,000-Port Ethernet Switch 174
Australian Police Database Lacked Root Password 214
Predicting Malicious Web Attacks 82
Scala, a Statically Typed, Functional, O-O Language 299
Three Indicted In Huge Identity/Data Breach 101
Amazon Confirms EC2/S3 Not PCI Level 1 Compliant 157
UK Lifeguards Dig Their Own 100Mbps Fiber-Optic Link 128
Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt" 624
C# and Java Weekday Languages, Python and Ruby For Weekends? 389
14-Year-Old Wins International Programming Contest 141
Twitter Used To Control Botnet Machines 127
Domain Tasting "Officially Dead" Thanks To Cancellation Policy 102
Why Should I Trust My Network Administrator? 730
Local Privilege Escalation On All Linux Kernels 595
Yahoo Revives Pay-Per-Email, With Charitable Twist 287
Database Error Costs Social Security Victims $500M 299
How Much Does a Reputation For Security Matter Anymore? 98
WordPress Exploit Allows Admin Password Reset 100
Encryption? What Encryption? 500
Judge Rules Against RealDVD 407
In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data 554
Voting Machine Attacks Proven To Be Practical 225
Schneier On Self-Enforcing Protocols 207
A Standardized OS For Robots 184
The Right Amount of "Challenge" In IT & Gaming 103
Netflix Announces Second Data Mining Contest 56
The iPhone SMS Hack Explained 94
Neuros LINK Mixes Quiet, Aesthetics, and Ubuntu 121
21st International Olympiad of Informatics Opens, In Bulgaria and Online 74
Are Information Technology's Glory Days Over? 333
Times Are Tough For Nigerian Scammers 232
Poor Passwords A Worse Problem Than Poor Antivirus 247
Contributing To a Project With a Reclusive Maintainer? 162
Bjarne Stroustrup On Concepts, C++0x 346
Microsoft Denies Windows 7 "Showstopper Bug" 241
Twitter, Facebook DDoS Attack Targeted One User 205
UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes 454
How Can I Tell If My Computer Is Part of a Botnet? 491
Examining Software Liability In the Open Source Community 241
Twitter Offline Due To DDoS 398
Feds At DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned 509
After Links To Cybercrime, Latvian ISP Cut Off 116
Mac OS X v10.5.8 Ready For Download 152
Best Free Open Source Software For Windows 324
Google's Launches 2nd Android Developer Contest 26
XML Library Flaw — Sun, Apache, GNOME Affected 140
Mario AI Competition 110
Can We Abandon Confidentiality For Google Apps? 480
KDE 4.3 Released 432
FBI Nabs Chicago Transit Authority Radio Hacker 177
Null-Prefix SSL Attacks Enabled In New sslsniff 48
Phoronix Releases Linux Benchmarking Distribution 31
Android Applications Soon To Run On MIPS32 Chips 93
Entropy Problems For Linux In the Cloud 179
First Ever Criminal Arrest For Domain Name Theft 294
Has Conficker Been Abandoned By Its Authors? 174
Scammer Plants a Fake ATM At Defcon 17 394
Defense Department Eyes Hacker Con For New Recruits 154
Bootkit Bypasses TrueCrypt Encryption 192
Generating Fast MD5 Collisions With ATI Video Cards 72
Apple Keyboard Firmware Hack Demonstrated 275
Linux, Twitter, and Red Hat "Win" Big At Pwnie Awards 63
Another New AES Attack 93
10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day 232
BIOS "Rootkit" Preloaded In 60% of New Laptops 236
Hackers Get Free Parking In San Francisco 221
Adobe Security Updates For Flash and Shockwave 58
Emacs Hits Version 23 367
Null Character Hack Allows SSL Spoofing 280
Google Warns About Search-Spammer Site Hacking 59
SMS Hack Could Make iPhones Vulnerable 254
MI5 Website Breached By Hacker 71
McAfee Leaks Conference Attendees' Personal Info 72
P2P Network Exposes Obama's Safehouse Location 307
Tetraktys 216
Stopping Spam Before It Hits the Mail Server 157
Microsoft's Urgent Patch Precedes Black Hat Session 232
In Europe, Auto Spam Translation Kicks In 102
New DoS Vulnerability In All Versions of BIND 9 197
Sandia Studies Botnets In 1M OS Digital Petri Dish 161
Netflix Prize Contest Ends, Down To the Wire 100
92% of Windows PCs Vulnerable To Zero-Day Attacks On Flash 286
DHS Pathogen Lab To Be Built In "Tornado Alley" 275
Could Cyber-Terrorists Provoke Nuclear Attacks? 183
Manager's Schedule vs. Maker's Schedule 274
Shrinking Budgets Tie Hands of Security Pros 63
AT&T Blocks Part of 4chan 342
Security Certificate Warnings Don't Work 432
Hacker Group L0pht Making a Comeback 110
New Leader In Netflix Prize Race With One Day To Go 87
Copyright Status of Thermodynamic Properties? 154
AVG Update Breaks iTunes 185
Electronic Armageddon, and No Electricity Either 158
The Best First Language For a Young Programmer 634
Network Solutions Suffers Massive Data Breach 70
SHA-3 Second Round Candidates Released 62
iPhone 3Gs Encryption Cracked In Two Minutes 179
Critical Flaw Discovered In DD-WRT 225
East Africa Gets High-Speed Internet Access Via Undersea Cable 198
Researchers Outline Targeted Content Poisoning For P2P Data 201
Stroustrup Says New C++ Standard Delayed Until 2010 Or Later 501
Could the Cloud Derail a $300 Million Data Center? 109
Cloud-Sourcing's Long-Term Impact On IT Careers 157
Hacking Nuclear Command and Control 256
'Power Capping' the Datacenter 112
Registrars Still Ignoring ICANN Rules 122
Keeping Up With DoD Security Requirements In Linux? 211
America's 10 Most-Wanted Botnets 84
POWER7 To Ship In First Half of 2010 73
NSA To Use Cloud Model For Intelligence Analysis 41
Adobe Chided For Insecure Acrobat Reader 179
40 Million Identities Up For Sale On the Web 245
Researchers Create Database-Hadoop Hybrid 122
'Vanish' Makes Sensitive Data Self-Destruct 171
Most Expensive JavaScript Ever? 405
How They Built the Software of Apollo 11 220
Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? 459
Collaborative Software For Pair Programming? 302
Hacking Hi-Def Graphics and Camerawork Into 4Kb 255
Is Battery-Free 2-Factor ID Secure? 180
South Korea Deploys Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs 154
WebKit For Metacity/Mutter CSS Theming? 124
New Firefox Vulnerability Revealed 250
Security Threats 3 Levels Beyond Kernel Rootkits 264
New Linux Kernel Flaw Allows Null Pointer Exploits 391
Free Rainbow Tables Looking For New Admin 95
Australian Police Plan Wardriving Mission 340
Firefox 3.5.1 Released 147
Why OpenBSD's Release Process Works 310
62% of Sun's Stockholders Vote For Oracle Deal 152
Nmap 5.00 Released, With Many Improvements 73
New Binary Diffing Algorithm Announced By Google 192
Firefox 3.5's First Vulnerability "Self-Inflicted" 156
Google's Chiller-Less Data Center 132
Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges 544
12% of E-mail Users Have Responded To Spam 268
0 A.D. Goes Open Source 88
The Best Game Engines 113
Attacks Against Unpatched Microsoft Bug Multiply 122
UK, Not North Korea, Is Source of DDoS Attacks 175
German Health Insurance Card CA Loses Secret Key 174
6 Reasons To License Software Under the (A/L)GPL 367
Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey 429
Hackers' Next Target — Your Brain? 295
Mass Speculation Suggests Oracle May Kill OpenSolaris 205
Hello World! 199
Hands-On Preview of Microsoft Office 2010 291
Strong Passwords Not As Good As You Think 553

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