IT Stories for 2015

Apple Faces $5 Million Lawsuit Over Allegedly Slowing the iPhone 4S With iOS 9 344
1st Circuit Injunction Re: TSA's New Mandatory AIT Search Rule Fully Briefed 122
List of Major Linux Desktop Problems Updated For 2016 349
The Paradox of Grey Hat Hackers 95
CFR China Expert: US Tech Firms Should Worry About Beijing's New Anti-Terror Law 50
AVG Forces Chrome Extension On Users, Extension Is Woefully Insecure 170
European Payment Card Protocols Wide Open To Fraud 38
Tech Segments Facing Turbulence In 2016 72
Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10 314
ProxyBack Malware Turns Infected Computers into Internet Proxies 71
Database of 191 Million US Voters Exposed On Internet 77
Google Glass For Work Is Sleeker, Tougher and Foldable 71
Ashley Madison Says It Added 4 Million Members Since the Hack 125
Fixing JavaScript's Broken Random Number Generator 136
China Passes Law Requiring Tech Firms To Hand Over Encryption Keys 170
APT Speed For Incremental Updates Gets a Massive Performance Boost 162
Steam: No "Unauthorized Actions" On Exposed Accounts 33
Vice: Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving In America 150
Pwnd Aethra Routers Used To Brute-Force WordPress Sites 27
Perl 6 Released 145
Steam Bug Shows You Other Users' Account Details 92
Somebody Tried To Convince a Raspberry Pi Exec To Install Malware On Its Devices 119
Australian Government Tells Citizens To Turn Off Two-factor Authentication 146
Motion Filed In 1st Circuit To Enjoin TSA's New Mandatory "AIT" Screening 129
Hyatt Hotels Payment-Processing Systems Hit By Malware 32
Wyndham Settlement: No Fine, But More Power To the FTC 17
USPTO Power Outage Damages Equipment and Shuts Down IT Systems 62
Investigation Into Security Director Who Hacked the Lottery Expands 167
The Juniper VPN Backdoor: Buggy Code With a Dose of Shady NSA Crypto 61
The Trials and Tribulations of America's Chief Internet Defender 22
Software Error Releases Up To 3,200 Inmates Early 211
TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed 278
Google Tests Signing Into Accounts Using Your Phone, No Password Required 108
NASA Has Suspended Its Next Mission To Mars 46
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Programmer Jobs Will Decline 8% 349
Cisco Systems Will Be Auditing Their Code For Backdoors 128
HIV Dating Company Accuses Researchers of Hacking Database 71
Oracle Settles FTC Charges Regarding Deceptive Java Security Updates 33
Google Joins Mozilla, Microsoft In Pushing For Early SHA-1 Crypto Cutoff 115
JavaScript User Prohibitions Are Like Content DRM, But Even Less Effective 188
Drug Case In Ireland Has Fingerprints of Carnegie Mellon's Attack On Tor 72
Deadline for Better Encryption on Payment Systems Pushed Back Two Years 91
Hackers Have Infiltrated the US Power Grid's Control Networks 129
Juniper's Backdoor Password Disclosed, Likely Added In Late 2013 107
Database Leak Exposes 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Fans 92
Improving UI and UX: Changing the "Open Source Is Ugly" Perception 402
Israeli Firm Creates a Device That Can Hack Any Nearby Phone 143
The Data Center Density Debate: Generational Change Brings Higher Densities 45
Wine 1.8 Released 119
New Outlook Bug Doesn't Require Users To Interact With Emails To Be Compromised 102
Phantom Squad Hacking Group Claims Credit For Three-Hour Xbox Live Outage 49
Swedish Researchers Break 'Unbreakable' Quantum Cryptography 101
Microsoft Extends SmartScreen To Foil Malvertising and Exploit Kits 48
Strict New Security Measures Put In Place For CES 2016 Attendees 91
Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? 388
Bernie Sanders Campaign Blocked From DNC Voter Info After Improper Access 313
'Unauthorized Code' In Juniper Firewalls Could Decrypt VPN Traffic 112
EFF Launches Panopticlick 2.0 63
LifeLock Agrees To Pay $100 Million Fine In Settlement With FTC 50
Catalogue of Government Gear For Cellphone Spying 69
Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Flaw Disclosure 31
Canonical Patches the Raspberry Pi 2 Kernel of Ubuntu 15.10 16
New WTO Trade Deal Will Exempt IT-Related Products From Import Tariffs 22
Ask Slashdot: Keeping My Data Mine? (2015 Edition) 132
Over 650 TB of Data Up For Grabs From Publicly Exposed MongoDB Database 96
PRESTON: The UK's "Big Brother" Comprehensive National Database System 57
LizardSquad Copycats Planning DDoS Attacks On Xbox & PSN For Christmas 103
CISA Surveillance Bill Hidden Inside Last Night's Budget Bill 166
0-Day GRUB2 Authentication Bypass Hits Linux 144
Following Data Leak, HIV Dating App's Developers Threaten Infection 105
MacKeeper Discloses 13 Million Mac Users' Details With Poor Hash Protection 72
Ask Slashdot: Best (or Better) Ways To Archive Email? 177
Netflix To Re-Encode Entire 1 Petabyte Video Catalogue In 2016 To Save Bandwidth 285
21-Year-Old British Man Arrested In Connection With VTech Hack 53
Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services 96
Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption 345
Attackers Can Hijack Joomla Sites Via User-Agent Strings 66
European Space Agency Records Leaked For Amusement, Attackers Say 74
Twitter Users Warned About Being Targeted By State-Sponsored Attacks 43
Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors 247
Ask Slashdot: Security Monitoring Company That Accepts VPN Video Feeds? 136
MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data 115
FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors 347
Google Bans Symantec Root Certificates 84
FTTH Coming To Lincoln, Nebraska 45
Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump 365
No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net 216
Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 543
SHA-1 Cutoff Could Block Millions of Users From Encrypted Websites 146
Steam Escrow System Drives Impatient Users To Fake Trading Sites Serving Malware 88
Obama Administration To Offer Full Position On Encryption By End of Year 152
Deputy Secretary of DHS On Agency's Role In Cybersecurity 19
Low Redundancy Data Centers? Providers Adapt As Tenants Seek Options 57
Quantum Computer Security? NASA Doesn't Want To Talk About It 86
AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug 132
France Will Not Ban Wi-Fi Or Tor, Prime Minister Says 89
WordPress 4.4 Arrives 39
1 in 3 Patients Will Have Their Healthcare Records Compromised 68
Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released 86
Dell, Toshiba and Lenovo Utilities Expose PCs To More Attacks 89
Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption 556
Microsoft Kills Many Critical Flaws, Some 0-Days, Un-Trusts One Wildcard Cert 103
Tech Giant SAP Seeks To Hire More Autistic Adults 165
XSS Can Take Down Your IoT Wind Turbine 68
Signs You're Doing Devops Wrong 166
Wired Thinks It Knows Who Satoshi Nakamoto Is 291
Cybercriminals Learning To Filter Out Undercover Cops 63
IT Leaders Now Expected To Be Open To Open Source 74
First Ever EU Rules On Cybersecurity 21
Radeon Graphics Cards To Support HDR Displays and FreeSync Over HDMI In 2016 37
Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" 735
Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC 255
Microsoft Will Resume Pushing Windows 10 To Machines With Win7, 8.1 665
French Legislation Would Block Tor and Restrict Free Wi-Fi 115
Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley To 'Disrupt' ISIS 452
Hackers Get Lazy, Build Trojan On Top of Android Rooting Utility 53
California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror 676
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing 288
No More Security Fixes For Older OpenSSL Branches 60
Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar 131
DragonFlyBSD 4.4 Switches To the Gold Linker By Default 26
Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet 31
Intel Skylake CPUs Are Warping Under Mounting Pressure From Third-Party Coolers 115
Millions of Smart TVs, Phones and Routers At Risk From Old Vulnerability 65
The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs 241
Keep Two Bank Accounts To Beat Cyber Attacks, Says Bank of England Adviser 172
IT Worker Fired After Massive Georgia Data Breach Speaks Out 113
Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta 135
Wih Messenger Revamp, Yahoo Joins the 'Unsend' Trend 49
After Demanding $3 Million Ransom, Hacker Dumps Massive Customer Financial Data 124
Scammy Tech Support Sites Now Serving Up Ransomware 43
Zero-Day Bugs In Numerous Modems/Routers Could Compromise Millions of Users 81
China Blamed For Attack On Australian Bureau of Meteorology 44
Canonical Patches Two Kernel Vulnerabilities In Ubuntu 14.04 33
Greek Banks Under Cyberattack, Face Ransom Demands 42
Skip the Picks; Expert Uses Hammer To Open a Master Lock 222
Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client 418
DHS Offering Free Vulnerability Scans, Penetration Tests 79
After Twenty Years of Flash, Adobe Kills the Name 125
Italy Invests 150 Million Euros In Surveillance, With Emphasis On PS4 Chats 62
Sued For Using HTTPS: Companies In Crypto Patent Fight 130
The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance 160
VTech Hack Gets Worse: Chat Logs, Kids' Photos Taken In Breach 69
Book Review: Security Operations Center 14
IoT Home Alarm System Can Be Easily Hacked and Spoofed 123
BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns 71
Pwned Barbies Spying On Children? Toytalk CEO Downplays Hacking Reports 90
DecryptorMax/CryptInfinite Ransomware Decrypted, No Need To Pay Ransom 49
Privacy Vulnerability Exposes VPN Users' Real IP Addresses 94
LinkedIn's Own CSS Abused For Clickjacking Attacks 12
VTech Hack Exposes Data On 4.8 Million Adults, 200,000 Kids 65
Lenovo Patches Serious Vulnerabilities In PC System Update Tool 38
Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks 298
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Ship With Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS 101
Russians Build Nuclear-Powered Data Center 58
900 Embedded Devices Share Hard-Coded Certs, SSH Host Keys 48
AMD's Crimson Radeon Driver For Linux Barely Changes Anything 95
IT Execs On Their Dream Dinner Guests 83
Critical Zen Cart Vulnerability Could Spell Black Friday Disaster For Shoppers 59
This Gizmo Knows Your Amex Card Number Before You've Received It 68
Even the Dumbest Ransomware Is Almost Unremovable On Smart TVs 151
AMD's 'Crimson' Driver Software Released 50
Second Root Cert-Private Key Pair Found On Dell Computer 65
Pearson Credential Manager System Used By Cisco, IBM, F5 Has Been Breached 25
Disney IT Workers Prepare To Sue Over Foreign Replacements 262
Can Full-Time Tech Workers Survive the Gig Economy? 169
Dell Accused of Installing 'Superfish-Like' Rogue Certificates On Laptops 92
What the Sony Hack Looked Like To Employees 51
New IBM Tech Lets Apps Authenticate You Without Personal Data 27
Nearly 35,000 Comment On New Federal STEM OPT Extension Rule 55
Ransomware Expected To Hit 'Lifesaving' Medical Devices In 2016 108
How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism 393
CIOs Spend a Third of Their Time On Security 110
The History of SQL Injection, the Hack That Will Never Go Away 193
Whistleblowers: How NSA Created the 'Largest Failure' In Its History 119
Blackberry Offers 'Lawful Device Interception Capabilities' 137
TrueCrypt Safer Than Previously Thought 42
Comcast Xfinity Wi-Fi Discloses Customer Names and Addresses 49
600,000 Arris Cable Modems Have 'Backdoors In Backdoors,' Researcher Claims 76
Meet Mårten Mickos, Serial Open Source CEO (Video) 23
Investigation Reveals How Easy It Is To Hijack a Science Journal Website 18
Nation-backed Hackers Using Evercookie and Web Analytics To Profile Targets 47
Exploit Vendor Publishes Prices For Zero-Day Vulnerabilities 21
Docker Turns To Minecraft For Server Ops 93
ISIS Help Desk Assists In Covering Tracks 145
Manhattan DA Pressures Google and Apple To Kill Zero Knowledge Encryption 291
Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid For Tor-Breaking Research 79
Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS 204
How Cisco Is Trying To Prove It Can Keep NSA Spies Out of Its Gear 130
US Rep. Joe Barton Has a Plan To Stop Terrorists: Shut Down Websites 275
Microsoft Invests $1 Billion In 'Holistic' Security Strategy 80
Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? 291
NYT Quietly Pulls Article Blaming Encryption In Paris Attacks 259
Slashdot Asks: Is Scrum Still Relevant? 371
UK PM Wants To Speed Up Controversial Internet Bill After Paris Attacks 167
Microsoft To Provide New Encryption Algorithm For the Healthcare Sector 85
After Paris, ISIS Moves Propaganda Machine To Darknet 184
Linux 4.4 Kernel To Bring Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver, Open-Channel SSD Support 67
Intel Flagship Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E To Offer 10-Cores, 20-Threads, 25MB L3 167
GPS Always Overestimates Distances 131
Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware 100
Chrome V8 JavaScript Exploit Leaves All Android Devices Ripe For Attack 107
BadBarcode Attack Forces Host System To Carry Out Commands 79
Microsoft Rolls Out Major Fall Update To Windows 10 181
Self-Encrypting Drives Hardly Any Better Than Software-Based Encryption 73
It's Way Too Easy To Hack the Hospital 116
Mac App Store Apps 'Damaged' Following Security Certificate Bug 66
Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes 267
Ask Slashdot: Automated Verification For Uploaded Files? 74
Bluetooth 2016 Roadmap Brings Fourfold Range Increase and Mesh Networking 29
Tor Project Claims FBI Paid University Researchers $1m To Unmask Tor Users 108
Linux Ransomware Has Predictable Key, Automated Decryption Tool Released 78
Tech Pros' Struggle For Work-Life Balance Continues 195
Ivan Ristic and SSL Labs: How One Man Changed the Way We Understand SSL 25
Classified Report On the CIA's Secret Prisons Is Caught In Limbo 54
Even the CEO's Job Is Susceptible To Automation, McKinsey Report Says 176
New Book Sold Out Offers a Look At the H-1B Debate 331
Webmail Services Struggling Against DDoS Attacks 90
Massive Hacking Ring Stole Data From 100 Million Bank Customers 38
2016 Presidential Candidate Security Investigation 97
Unhashable: Why Fingerprints Are Weaker Security Than Passwords 242
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 820 With Adreno 530 Graphics For Mobile Devices 34
Harnessing Conflict in the Workplace (video) 93
Proof-of-Concept Ransomware Affects Macs 163
How Outsourcing Companies Are Gaming the H-1B Visa System 284
The Dark Net Drug Market That Survived Ukraine's Civil War 15
ProtonMail Restores Services After Epic DDoS Attacks 57
Ask Slashdot: Open Source Back-Up Tool For Business? 118
UK Gov't Can Demand Backdoors, Give Prison Sentences For Disclosing Them 187
8 of the 10 Top Security Flaws Used By Cyber-Criminals This Year Were Flash Bugs 66
Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India 607
The Sophisticated Business of Today's Most Nasty Phishing Attacks 38
China, Russia Try To Hack Australia's Upcoming Submarine Plans 83
Comcast Resets Nearly 200,000 Passwords After Customer List Goes On Sale 43
Going Dark Crypto Debate Going Nowhere 111
Badly-Coded Ransomware Locks User Files and Throws Away Encryption Key 128
Vulnerability In Java Commons Library Leads To Hundreds of Insecure Applications 115
Hackers Who Hit CIA Director Break Into Law Enforcement Tools 35
Ransomware Found Targeting Linux Servers, MySQL, Git, Other Development Files 93
NSA Uses Vulnerabilities Before It Discloses Them, Keeps Some To Itself 121
How a Mobile App Firm Found the XcodeGhost In the Machine 69
Pro-Privacy Webmail ProtonMail Pays Ransom, But Hit By DDoS Attack Anyway 101
Linus's Thoughts on Linux Security 291
Microsoft Follows Mozilla In Considering Early Ban On SHA-1 Certificates 47
Android App Mutates Source Code, Spreads Virally and Enables Mesh Networks 74
Crypto-Ransomware Encrypts Files "Offline" 54
Sprint Faces Backlash For Adding MDM Software To Devices 123
Ask Slashdot: Secure, Yet Accessible E-mail Archive Storage? 74
First Remote-Access Trojan That Can Target Android, Linux, Mac and Windows 63
Celebrating 30th Anniversary of the First C++ Compiler: Let's Find Bugs In It 153

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