IT Stories for 2012

EFnet Paralyzed By Vulnerability 156
The Future of 802.11ac 125
New Releases From FreeBSD and NetBSD 149
Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot 355
New IE Vulnerability Used In Targeted Attacks; IE9, IE10 Users Safe 169
Data Brokers, Gun Owners, and Consumer Privacy 95
Bletchley Park Codebreaker Honored 57
FCC Smooths the Path For Airlines' In-Flight Internet 93
Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug 1051
Michigan Makes It Illegal To Ask For Employees' Facebook Logins 132
McAfee Labs Predicts Decline of Anonymous 111
The Most Unique Viruses of 2012 94
New Android Malware Uses Google Play Icon To Trick Users 223
Nvidia Display Driver Service Attack Escalates Privileges On Windows Machines 129
Popular Wordpress Plugin Leaves Sensitive Data In the Open 54
How Do YOU Establish a Secure Computing Environment? 314
Lax SSH Key Management A "Big Problem" 212
Iran Claims New Cyberattacks On Industrial Sites 75
You're Being DDOSed — What Do You Do? Name and Shame? 336
BLAKE2 Claims Faster Hashing Than SHA-3, SHA-2 and MD5 134
Steam Hit By 'No Connection' Error Worldwide 126
Ask Slashdot: Typing Advice For a Guinness World Record Attempt? 307
Google Chrome 25 Will Disable Silent Extension Installation 121
Mozilla Brings Back Firefox 64-Bit For Windows Nightly Builds 209
DARPA Wants Wireless Devices That Can Blast Through the Noise 79
NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter 292
After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out 259
30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8 1110
ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time 268
VPN Providers Say China Blocks Encryption Using Machine Learning Algorithms 111
Obama Releases National Strategy For Information Sharing 83
How Much Are You Worth To an Online Lead-Gen Site? 83
Whose Bug Is This Anyway? 241
New Malware Wiping Data On Computers In Iran 95
Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years 346
Pentaho and Jaspersoft: Good Alternatives To Bigger-Name Software? 57
TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners 225
Gmail Drops Support for Connecting To Pop3 Servers With Self -Signed Certs 299
EFF Spinoff Pools Donor Dollars To Prevent WikiLeaks-Style Payment Blockades 95
Researchers Convert Phones Into Secret Listening Devices 59
Huge Security Hole In Recent Samsung Devices 153
AMD Radeon Performance Preview On Linux 3.8 112
WW2 Pigeon Code Decrypted By Canadian? 158
Analysis of Dexter Malware Uncovers Mystery Man, and Links To Zeus 119
Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware? 340
South Carolina Shows How Not To Do Security 123
California Sues Delta Air Lines Over Mobile Privacy 100
Denial-of-Service Attack Found In Btrfs File-System 210
Google Nixes Some Calendar Features and Other Software Offerings 235
An Interactive Graph of the Certificate Authority Ecosystem 39
New "Sanny" Cyber-Espionage Attack Targets Russia 8
Japanese Police Offers First-Ever Reward For Wanted Hacker 63
The SEO Spammers Behind Online Infographics 55
Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks 306
Is Technology Eroding Employment? 544
The Top Five IT Budget Busters and How To Avoid Them (Video) 1
Interviews: Eugene Kaspersky Answers Your Questions 82
Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist 345
Revamped Google Maps Finally Available On iOS 279
Facebook Changes Privacy Policies, Scraps User Voting 119
IE Flaw Lets Sites Track Your Mouse Cursor, Even When You Aren't Browsing 149
Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You 249
Linux Nukes 386 Support 464
Hacked Review System Leads To Fake Reviews and Retraction of Scientific Papers 67
Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal 338
Malicious QR Codes Posted Where There's Lots of Foot Traffic 89
Google Sync Clobbers Chrome Browsers 102
Linux 3.7 Released 151
GhostShell Hackers Release Data From Exploiting NASA, FBI, ESA 124
Google App Verification Service Detects Only 15% of Infected Apps 99
Researchers Find Crippling Flaws In Global GPS 179
Tor Network Used To Command Skynet Botnet 105
Former Anonymous Spokesperson Indicted 114
Maker of Hackable Hotel Locks Finally Agrees To Pay For Bug Fix 66
US Security Classifications Needs Re-Thinking, Says Board 76
Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New? 338
How the Eurograbber Attack Stole 36M Euros 57
If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? 660
New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes 330
The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China 402
Swiss Spy Agency: Counter-Terrorism Secrets Stolen 88
The Rise of Feudal Computer Security 147
Linus Torvalds Delays Linux 3.7, Releases 3.7-rc8 Kernel Instead 86
Splashtop's Cliff Miller Talks About Their New Linux App (Video) 96
The Countries Most Vulnerable To an Internet Shutdown 94
Interviews: Ask What You Will of Eugene Kaspersky 115
Researcher Discloses New Batch of MySQL Vulnerabilities 76
Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade 295
Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1% 310
How Syria's Rebels Communicate In the Face of Internet Shutdown 80
FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn 346
Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node 325
Microsoft Security Essentials Loses AV-Test Certificate 185
NPD Group Analysts Say Windows 8 Sales Sluggish 269
How Can Linux Gain (Even) More Enterprise Acceptance? (Video) 177
Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? 161
California Software Maker's Fortunes Track Dispute With Chinese Gov't 94
Ask Slashdot: Server Room Toolbox? 416
Swedish Stock Exchange Hit By Programming Snafu 136
Real-World Cyber City Used To Train Cyber Warriors 59
Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year 712
Hackers Stole Information From IAEA Servers 55
Hardcoded Administrator Account Opens Backdoor Access To Samsung Printers 103
Dual Interface Mobile Devices To Address BYOD Issue 116
Netflix Gives Data Center Tools To Fail 75
Hotel Keycard Lock Hack Gets Real In Texas 132
Researcher Finds Nearly Two Dozen SCADA Bugs In a Few Hours 104
Google.com.pk and 284 Other .PK Domains Hacked 35
Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma 118
"Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court 285
Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge 388
After Weeks of Trying, UK Cryptographers Fail To Crack WWII Code 263
A Wi-Fi Wardriving Motorbike — With Plans Available 36
Pakistan To Cut Phone Services To Prevent Muharram Attacks 119
U.S. Denies Using Flame Malware To Spy On French President 52
HTTP Strict Transport Security Becomes Internet Standard 98
Facebook To Eliminate Voting On Privacy Changes 52
Researcher Claims To Have Chrome Zero-Day, Google Says "Prove It" 106
Ask Slashdot: Should Hosting Companies Have Change Freezes? 138
High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves 363
The Linux Foundation's UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Delayed 179
Hosting Provider Automatically Fixes Vulnerabilities In Customers' Websites 73
Quantum Cryptography Conquers Noise Problem 79
Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous 569
NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 179
Jail Looms For Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails 124
New Linux Rootkit Emerges 172
Facebook Switching To HTTPS By Default 92
Unresolved Issues Swirl Around Securing Mobile Payments 44
Two FreeBSD Project Servers Hacked 46
John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers" 377
You Can't Say That On the Internet 432
Windows Phone 8 Users Hit Some Snags 391
Hacker vs. Counter-Hacker — a Legal Debate 182
New Malware Variant Uses Google Docs As a Proxy To Phone Home 85
Anonymous Attacks Israeli Websites In Response To IDF Operation In Gaza 560
FreeBSD Project Discloses Security Breach Via Stolen SSH Key 86
US Justice Dept. Sues eBay For Anti-Competitive Hiring Practices 66
iOS 6 Streaming Bug Sends Data Usage Skyrocketing 98
Will It Take a 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' To Break Congressional Deadlock? 104
High Security Animal Disease Lab Faces Uncertain Future 105
House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On TSA's "Scanner Shuffle" 134
NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops 226
Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts 418
US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent 362
Hacker Grabs 150k Adobe User Accounts Via SQL Injection 64
Battery-Powered Transmitter Could Crash A City's 4G Network 121
Skype Disables Password Resets After Huge Security Hole Discovered 65
Cyberespionage For Everyone 44
Australia's Biggest Telco Sold Routers With Hardcoded Passwords 154
John McAfee Accused of Murder, Wanted By Belize Police 353
How Red Teams Hack Your Site To Save It 58
Meet the Lawyer Suing Anyone Who Uses SSL 347
Homeland Security Mining Social Media For Signs of Bio Attacks 96
Support Forums Reveal SCADA Infections 66
Color-Screen TI-84 Plus Calculator Leaked 245
Nike+ FuelBand: Possibly a Big Security Hole For Your Life 162
Critical Vulnerabilities In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, CryEngine 3 77
Blizzard Sued Over Battle.net Authentication 217
Stuxnet Infected (But Didn't Affect) Chevron Network In 2010 82
Windows 8 Defeats 85% of Malware Detected In the Past 6 Months 299
Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? 361
Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort 578
Staff Emails Are Not Owned By Firms, UK Judge Rules 111
What To Do After You Fire a Bad Sysadmin Or Developer 245
Australian Telcos Declare SMS Unsafe For Bank Transactions 42
NASA Fires Up Experimental Space Internet For Robot Control 42
Cloud Version of OpenOffice In the Works 71
$50,000 Zero-Day Exploit Evades Adobe's Sandbox, Say Russian Analysts 56
Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court 380
Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System 368
The Web Won't Be Safe Or Secure Until We Break It 180
Google Security Engineer Issues Sophos Warning 89
Voting Machine Problem Reports Already Rolling In 386
Gate One 1.1 Released: Run Vim In Your Browser 150
Welsh Scientists Radically Increase Fiber Broadband Speeds With COTS Parts 72
GM Brings IT Dev Back In House; Self-Driving Caddy In the Works 171
Attack Steals Crypto Key From Co-Located Virtual Machines 73
What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? 388
Should Hacked Companies Disclose Their Losses? 68
PayPal, Symantec Hacked In Anonymous November 5 Hacking Spree 101
AMD Launches Piledriver-Based 12 and 16-Core Opteron 6300 Family 133
Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory? 388
New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email 189
Dragonfly BSD 3.2 Released 85
Facebook's Prism, Soon To Be Open Sourced, Gives Hadoop Delay Tolerance 17
Constant Technology Use May Hamper Kids' Ability To Learn 163
Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a DDoS Attack? 303
Microsoft Escapes Kaspersky's Top 10 Vulnerabilities List 112
Building the Ultimate Safe House 289
Most US Drones Still Beam Video Unencrypted 138
Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? 193
Con Ed Says NYC Datacenters Should Get Power Saturday 107
UK Takes Huge Step Forward On Open Standards 67
WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney 287
PayPal Security Holes Expose Customer Card Data, Personal Details 87
More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You 277
IEEE Standards For Voting Machines 221
Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" 204
OpenBSD 5.2 Released 141
Security Firm VUPEN Claims To Have Hacked Windows 8 and IE10 118
NYC Data Center Needs Focus On Fuel 162
FTC Whacks "Rachel From Card Holder Services" 289
Internal Bug: Code Flaw May Lead to Wrong Dose From Infusion Pump 86
Judge To Newspaper - Reveal Name of Commenter 307
Dutch DigiNotar Servers Were Fully Hacked 83
More Drones Set To Use US Air Space 223
Ask Slashdot: Is TSA's PreCheck System Easy To Game? 157
Irked By Cyberspying, Georgia Outs Russia-based Hacker 95
Intel 335 Series SSD Equipped With 20-nm NAND 135
Want a Security Pro? Get Politically Incorrect and Learn Geek Culture 314
FBI Says They're Now Working 24/7 To Investigate Hackers and Network Attacks 74
Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet 316
US and Canada Launch Joint Cybersecurity Plan 42
Cash-Strapped States Burdened By Expensive Data Security Breaches 58
Industrial Control Software Easily Hackable 194
Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Finding a Security Breach On Shared Hosting? 168
China Telco Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns 180
Slashdot Asks: Are You Preparing For Hurricane Sandy? 232
Green Grid Argues That Data Centers Can Lose the Chillers 56
Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs 795
New Trusted HW Standard For Windows 8 To Support Chinese Crypto 87
SSL Holes Found In Critical Non-Browser Software 84
Anonymous' WikiLeaks-Like Project Tyler To Launch In December 101
Microsoft Releases Windows 8 403
Experts Warn About Security Flaws In Airline Boarding Passes 199
Analytics Company Settles Charges For User Tracking 43
Ask Slashdot: Is Going To a Technical College Worth It? 309
Huawei Offers 'Complete and Unrestricted' Source Code Access 255
EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel 249
Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? 610
How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Revealed Massive Misuse of DKIM 115
Windows 7 Not Getting A Second Service Pack 441
Criminals Crack and Steal Customer Data From Barnes & Noble Keypads 83
CyanogenMod Android ROMs Accidentally Logged Screen Unlock Patterns 69
PS3 Encryption Keys Leaked 284
Researcher Develops Patch For Java Zero Day In 30 Minutes 57
System Admins Should Know How To Code 298
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Protect My Android Devices From Hackers? 295
Microsoft Urges Businesses To Get Off XP 727
DARPA Funds a $300 Software-Defined Radio For Hackers 94
Aussie Researchers Crack Transport Crypto, Get Free Rides 88
Ask Slashdot: How To Both Mirror and Protect Crowdsourced Data? 76
At $250, New Chromebook Means Competition For Tablets, Netbooks, Ultrabooks 283
New Arduino Due Brings More Power To the Table 130
Spammers Using Shortened .gov URLs 75
Smartphone Mugging More Popular Than Ever 285
Zimmermann's Silent Circle Now Live 127
Ask Slashdot: Securing a Windows Laptop, For the Windows Newbie? 503
Trade Show Video Features Iranian Tech, Talk of Stuxnet Retaliation 131

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