IT Stories for 2012

Poor SSL Implementations Leave Many Android Apps Vulnerable 141
Real-Time Cyber-Attack Map 36
Kaspersky's Exploit-Proof OS Leaves Security Experts Skeptical 196
TSA Moving X-ray Body Scanners To Smaller Airports 168
FTC Offers $50,000 For Best Way To Stop Robocalls 614
ARM-Based Chromebooks Ready To Battle Windows 8, Tablets 230
Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Out Now; Raring Ringtail In the Works 318
Trans-Atlantic 8K/UHDTV Streaming With UltraGrid and Commodity PCs 58
NASA Exploring $1.5 Million Unmanned Aircraft Competition 38
Explosive Detecting Devices Face Off With Bomb Dogs 115
Zero Errors? Spamhaus Flubs Causing Domain Deletions 170
Malware Is 'Rampant' On Medical Devices In Hospitals 234
Steam Protocol Opens PCs to Remote Code Execution 128
The Pirate Bay Starts Using Virtualized Servers 186
Researcher Reverse-Engineers Pacemaker Transmitter To Deliver Deadly Shocks 216
Hackers' 'Zero-Day' Exploits Stay Secret For Ten Months On Average 74
UK Police Fined For Using Unencrypted Memory Sticks 100
Kaspersky To Build Secure OS For SCADA Systems 165
FBI Issues Android Virus Warning 129
CIA: Flying Skyhook Wasn't Just For James Bond, It Actually Rescued Agents 123
Book Review: Everyday Cryptography 56
Precision Espionage MiniFlame Malware Tied To Flame 34
US Suspects Iran Was Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks 292
How Facebook Can Out Your Most Personal Secrets 467
Google May Soon Scan Your Android Apps For Malware 124
Windows 8: Do I Really Need a Single OS? 344
U.S. Defense Secretary Warns of a Possible 'Cyber-Pearl Harbor' 190
Remote Admin Tools May Not Be Clever Enough For Their Own Good 21
Mozilla Details How Old Plugins Will Be Blocked In Firefox 17 152
Lone Packet Crashes Telco Networks 57
Linux Foundation Offers Solution for UEFI Secure Boot 308
Canadian Spying Case Proves Floppy Drive Isn't Dead Yet 148
Facebook Confirms Data Breach 155
Firefox 16 Pulled To Address Security Vulnerability 165
In Under 10 Hours, Google Patches Chrome To Plug Hole Found At Its Pwnium Event 113
US Supreme Court Says Wiretapping Immunity Will Stand 203
RSA Boss Angers Privacy Advocates 55
Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week 617
Phil Zimmermann's New App Protects Smartphones From Prying Ears 121
OS Upgrades Powered By Git 92
Insurance For Cybercriminals, or Giant Sting? 72
Ask Slashdot: Video Monitors For Areas That Are Off the Grid? 340
Flaws Allow Every 3G Device To Be Tracked 81
Post Mortem of GunnAllen IT Meltdown 192
Adventures In Rooting: Running Jelly Bean On Last Year's Kindle Fire 41
US Congress Rules Huawei a 'Security Threat' 186
Take a Free Networking Class From Stanford 128
Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight 247
Ad Group Says Internet Accounts For 5.1M US Jobs, 3.7% of GDP 73
Spreadsheet Blamed For UK Rail Bid Fiasco 125
Wanted: Hackers For Large-Scale Attacks On American Banks 77
Over 60% of Android Malware Hides In Fake Versions of Popular Apps 111
Boston Airport Replacing X-ray Body Scanners 119
Decentralized Social Networking — Why It Could Work 128
Hitachi Develops Boarding Gate With Built-In Explosives Detector 118
Europe Joins Forces In Massive Simulated Cyber Attack 36
Oracle's Sparc T5 Chip Evidently Pushed Back to 2013 98
Linux 3.7 Kernel To Support Multiple ARM Platforms 82
IETF Starts Work On Next-Generation HTTP Standards 82
Bruce Perens: The Day I Blundered Into the Nuclear Facility 181
Sandia Lab Fires Up 300,000 Virtual Android Devices To Test Out Security 39
SHA-3 Winner Announced 100
Graphics Cards: the Future of Online Authentication? 178
White House Confirms Chinese Cyberattack 212
CyanogenMod Drops ROM Manager In Favor of OTA Updates 111
Ask Slashdot: Best Incentives For IT Workers? 468
PlaceRaider Builds a Model of Your World With Smartphone Photos 120
Lingering Questions On the Extent of the Adobe Hack 97
Slackware 14.0 Arrives 183
EA Makes Minor Tweaks To FIFA 12 For the Wii, Releases It As FIFA 13 105
IPv6 Must Be Enabled On All US Government Sites By Sunday 179
Privacy Watchdogs Want Facebook, Datalogix Deal Probed 8
Apple CEO Tim Cook Apologizes For Maps App, Recommends Alternatives 451
US Department of Homeland Security Looking For a Few Good Drones 92
Adobe Revoking Code Signing Certificate Used To Sign Malware 39
Smart-Grid Control Software Maker Hacked 96
Intel Debuts Clover Trail For Tablets, Launches New Atom Inside 88
Why Apple Replaced iOS Maps 561
Bitcoin Exchange BitFloor Says It Will Replace Stolen Coins 117
AMD Trinity APUs Stack Up Well To Intel's Core 3 223
Even Windows 8 Users Prefer Windows 7 436
Can Foursquare Data Predict Where You Live? 55
WhatsApp Threatens Developers of PC Gateway With Legal Action 27
Appeals Court Caves To TSA Over Nude Body Scanners 169
Cybersecurity Laws Would Do More Harm Than Good 77
Malicious PhpMyAdmin Served From SourceForge Mirror 86
Intel CEO Tells Staff Windows 8 Is Being Released Prematurely 269
FTC And PC Rental Companies Settle In Spying On Users Case 80
New Java Vulnerability Found Affecting Java 5, 6, and 7 SE 121
Samsung Smartphones Vulnerable To Remote Wipe Hack 151
Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords 160
Schneier: We Don't Need SHA-3 143
Ask Slashdot: Actual Best-in-Show For Free Anti Virus? 515
Did Microsoft Know About the IE Zero-Day Flaw In Advance? 123
Apple Reportedly Luring Ex-Google Mappers With Jobs 334
Chattanooga's Municipal Network Doubles Down On Fiber Speeds 165
Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software 151
iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours 513
W3C Group Proposed To Safeguard User Agent State Privacy 76
Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You 497
Iran Behind Cyber Attacks On U.S. Banks 306
Meet Two Security Researchers Apple Hates (Video) 146
Another EUSecWest NFC Trick: Ride the Subway For Free 135
6 Million Virgin Mobile Users Vulnerable To Brute-Force Attacks 80
The Man Who Hacked the Bank of France 184
Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware 245
Android Hacked Via NFC On the Samsung Galaxy S 3 198
Stubborn Intel Graphics Bug Haunts Ubuntu 12.04 320
Mikko Hypponen's Malware Odyssey 51
Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security 232
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Rooted 62
Cinnamon 1.6 Brings New Features and Applets 74
TSA Spending $245 Million On "Second Generation" Body Scanners 335
Inside Look At Eastern European Vs. East Asian Hackers 63
Maybe With Help From Google and Adobe, Microsoft Can Kill Windows XP 405
Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack 252
MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions 349
W3C Releases First Working Draft of Web Crypto API 63
Wireless Analysis With Monitor Mode On Android 49
Microsoft Issues Workaround For IE 0-Day 101
Intel Details Power Management Advancements in Haswell 113
New IE Zero-Day Being Exploited In the Wild 134
Spoken Commands Crash Bank Phone Lines 178
Radioactive Tool Goes Missing In Texas 163
Quantum Key Exchange With an Airplane 44
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Detained In Sweden 95
Report Hints At Privacy Problem of Drones That Can Recognize Faces 107
Intel Demos 7Gpbs Wireless Docking 52
Google Kills Apps Support For Internet Explorer 8 296
Ask Slashdot: How To Prove IT Knowledge Without Expensive Certificates? 186
Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland 297
Why WikiLeaks' Spinoff OpenLeaks Failed 79
WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs 356
Microsoft Disrupts Nitol Botnet 92
BMW Cars Vulnerable To Blank Key Attack 291
QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks 289
Chip and Pin "Weakness" Exposed By Cambridge Researchers 133
Intel Demos McAfee Social Protection 183
Intel Confirms Decline of Server Giants 152
Apple Announces iPhone 5 1052
Malware Used in Aramco Attack Likely Work of Amateurs 18
GAO Slams DHS Over BioWatch Biological Defense System 88
Is a Computer Science Degree Worth Getting Anymore? 630
Go Daddy: Network Issues, Not Hacks Or DDoS, Caused Downtime 143
Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? 460
MediaFire Restores Virus Researcher's Account But Not Individual Files 72
Aramco Says Networks Back Online, No Results From Investigation Yet 21
GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility 483
Recurly's Backup Mess Takes Days to Clean Up 21
One Company's Week-Long Interview Process 362
Majority of Mobile Malware Now Reliant On Toll Fraud 39
Microsoft: As of October, 1024-Bit Certs Are the New Minimum 207
Arizona Botnet Controller Draws 30-Month Federal Sentence 76
4chan Undergoing Major Revision, Getting Public API 166
Ask Slashdot: How To Begin Work In IT Freelancing? 140
WhatsApp Is Using IMEI Numbers As Passwords 102
Violation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle 155
For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread 257
Group Behind 'Aurora' Attack on Google Still Active 21
Cloud Firm MediaFire Flags Malware Samples For DMCA Violation, Bans Researcher 125
Unconventional Adversaries vs. Conventional Wisdom (Video) 21
GNOME 3.6 To Include Major Revisions 327
Norton '12 Cybercrime Numbers Lower Than Last Year's — But Just As Bad 46
UPEK Fingerprint Reader Software Puts Windows Passwords At Risk 122
Raspberry Pi Revision 2.0 Board Announced 155
Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers 333
Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim 836
TSA Says Screening Drinks Purchased Inside Airport Terminal Is Nothing New 427
Apple Denies FBI Had Access To UDIDs 104
Google Awarded Face-To-Unlock Patent 194
'Magic Carpet' Could Help Prevent Falls Among the Elderly 87
OpenSUSE 12.2 Is Out 96
ICS-CERT Warns That Infrastructure Switches Have Hard-Coded Account Holes 60
BitFloor Joins List of Compromised BitCoin Exchanges 232
FBI Denies It Held iPhone UDIDs Stolen By AntiSec 216
Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 249
Leave Your Cellphone At Home, Says Jacob Appelbaum 306
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Disabilities In the Workplace? 292
Business Tier For Australia's NBN Brings Big Possibilities For VoIP 70
Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs 282
Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper 151
Iran and North Korea Team Up To Fight State-Sponsored Malware 191
Xen-Based Secure OS Qubes Hits 1.0 175
Knocking Infected PCs Off the Internet 206
Calculating the Cost of Full Disk Encryption 242
Frankenstein Code Stitches Code Bodies Together To Hide Malware 111
Download With Caution: Romney, Obama Campaign Apps Have Privacy Flaws 106
Windows Has a Future In RAM: AgigaTech Samples DDR3+Flash DIMM 139
4K UHDTV Hardware On Display in Berlin, And On Sale In Korea 137
Russia's New Secure Android Tablet Keeps Data From Google 127
Java Exploit Patched? Not So Fast 87
Oracle Patches Java 7 Vulnerability 58
2nd Largest Liquefied Natural Gas Producer Knocked Offline In Malware Attack 71
Ask Slashdot: What Should a Unix Fan Look For In a Windows Expert? 454
Microsoft's Sneak Attack On Apple: SkyDrive, Not Surface 150
Ask Slashdot: Where To Report Script Kiddies and Other System Attacks? 241
Polish Researcher: Oracle Knew For Months About Java Zero-Day 367
Linus Torvalds Says Linux 4.0 Could Be Out In Three Years 174
Google Talks About the Dangers of User Content 172
New iOS App Sends Users' Web Traffic Through Its Proxy Servers 83
AMD Preps For Server Graphics Push 41
Another LulzSec Member Arrested 211
Air Force Openly Seeking Cyberweapons 91
VMware Back-Pedals On vRAM Scheme, Back To Per-Socket Pricing 70
A Month After Grum Botnet Takedown, Spam Back To Previous Levels 47
IBM Mainframe Running World's Fastest Commercial Processor 158
Experts Develop 3rd-Party Patch For New Java Zero-Day 154
Dropbox Adds Two-Factor Authentication 64
Russia's Former KGB Invests In Political Propaganda Spambots 164
Hackers Dump Millions of Records From Banks, Politicians 310
Ask Slashdot: How Did You Become a Linux Professional? 298
Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing 360
Gartner Says Application Development Is a $9 Billion Industry 65
Shamoon Malware Linked To Saudi Aramco Attack 27
NIST Publishes Draft Guidelines For Server BIOS Protection 141
Power Problems Force Seattle To Throttle City Data Center For Days 85
Serious Problems With USB and Ethernet On the Raspberry Pi 202
IT Industry Presidential Poll: 'Not Sure' Beats Both Obama and Romney 238
Ask Slashdot: IT Contractors, How's Your Health Insurance? 468
ToorCamp: Adventures In an American Hacker Camp 20
Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP 504
Phony Laser Security System Proves Perception Is Reality 243
FAA Denies Vulnerabilities In New Air Traffic Control System 141
Crisis Trojan Makes Its Way Onto Virtual Machines 49
Private Key Found Embedded In Major SCADA Equipment 105
Workers Working An Extra 20 Hours a Week Thanks To BYOD 202
After Hacker Exposes Hotel Lock Insecurity, Lock Firm Asks Hotels To Pay For Fix 244
Inside the Grum Botnet 34
US To Drive 3,000 Wi-Fi Linked Vehicles In Massive Crash Avoidance Trial 89
Kmscon Project Seeks To Replace Linux Virtual Terminal 182
Ask Slashdot: Recording Business Meeting Audio On an Intranet? 85
"Knitted" Wi-Fi Routers Create Failover Network For First Responders 97
Amazon Wants To Replace Tape With Slow But Cheap Off-Site "Glacier" Storage 187
Sealed-Box Macs: Should Computers Be Disposable? 673
Ask Slashdot: Using a Sandbox To Deal With Spambots? 167
Intel Team Takes On Car Hackers 153
"SMSZombie" Malware Infects 500,000 Android Users In China 116
Gartner Buzzword Tracker Says "Cloud Computing" Still on Hype Wave 84
iPhone Bug Allows SMS Spoofing 92
Google Employees Find 60 Security Holes In Adobe Reader 164
Destructive Shamoon Malware Targets Energy Sector 34
Researchers Find 'Mind-Control' Gaming Headsets Can Leak Users' Secrets 107
Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? 454
ICS-CERT Warns of Serious Flaws In Tridium SCADA Software 34
First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector 303
Ask Slashdot: Protecting Data From a Carrington Event? 386
Cyber Attack Knocks Offline Saudi Aramco 67
Anonymous Claims To Have Hacked Sony PSN Again 239
Botnet Flaw Lets Researchers Disrupt Attacks 26
Gaining Info On Tech Execs With Just Their Email 75

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