IT Stories for 2015

OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 Released 31
Controversial New UK Internet Powers Bill Makes No Mention of VPNs 115
Latest EMET Bypass Targets WoW64 Windows Subsystem 125
FireEye: Many Companies Still Running XcodeGhost-Infected Apple Apps 23
Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) 220
TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) 349
Google Hackers Expose 11 Major Security Flaws In Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge 61
How DMCA Rulemaking Has a Chilling Effect On Security Research 31
Analog Still Big In Japan 360
Why Avast Won't Show Source Code To the Government, But Others Do 79
Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators 134
Internet Firms To Be Banned From Offering Unbreakable Encryption Under New UK Laws 418
Google Patches More Stagefright Vulnerabilities In Android 56
Tor Releases Messenger Beta For Secure Chat 16
US Government IT Outsourcing Is Poorly Managed 85
The Rise of Political Doxing 176
Linux 4.3 Released As Stable; Improves On Open-Source Graphics, SMP Performance 73
Vodafone Attack Hits Nearly 2000 Customer Accounts 9
Busybox Deletes Systemd Support 572
UK Police Make Third Arrest Over TalkTalk Cyber Attack 61
Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? 324
CoinVault and Bitcryptor Ransomware Victims Can Now Recover Their Files For Free 32
Atom 1.1 Is Out, With Lots of Graphic Improvements 103
Cuba's Internet Routing Is Messed Up 64
Bug Bounties Are Bonanza, For a Few Persistent Hackers 27
Lessons From a Decade of IT Failures 118
UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History 136
Xen Patches 7-Year-Old Bug That Shattered Hypervisor Security 61
Apple Usurps Oracle As the Biggest Threat To PC Security 320
Fewer IPsec Connections At Risk From Weak Diffie-Hellman 28
Hackers, Activists, Journos: How To Build a Secure Burner Laptop 139
Tech Unemployment Rising In Some Categories 182
Motorola Unveils Droid Turbo 2, Claims Shatterproof Display, 48 Hour Battery 111
UK Government Says App Developers Won't Be Forced To Implement Backdoors 86
CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix 229
Revisiting the Infamous Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal 10 Years Later 188
MySQL Servers Hijacked With Malware To Perform DDoS Attacks 55
Australian PLAID Crypto, ISO Conspiracies, and German Tanks 62
Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill 216
Oracle Bakes Security Into New Chips 99
China May Have Hacked International Hague Tribunal Over South China Sea Dispute 47
F-Troop and the 'Internet of Thingies' (Video) 43
Univ. of New Haven Cyber Lab: WhatsApp Collects Phone Numbers, Call Duration, and More 67
Immersion Cooling Drives Server Power Densities To Insane New Heights 80
Open Source Code Isn't a Warranty 214
Official, Customized Raspberry Pi Versions Coming Soon 93
US Military Websites Still Relying On SHA-1 52
The Coming Tech Gig Economy 177
15-Year-Old Boy Arrested In Connection With TalkTalk Hack 100
Ask Slashdot: Open Tools For Logbooks and Note-taking? 227
Despite Takedown, the Dridex Botnet Is Running Again 57
W3C Sets Up Web Payments Standards Group To Improve Check-Out Security 30
Why IoT Security Is So Critical 148
Russian Cyberspies Targeted MH17 Crash Investigation 88
Joomla SQL-Injection Flaw Affects Millions of Websites 120
The Army Bug Bounty Program: a Critical Need In Defense 90
Affordable Care Act Exchanges Fail To Detect Counterfeit Documentation 246
TalkTalk Customer Data At Risk After Cyber-attack On Company Website 46
In Turnabout, SunTrust Removes Contentious Severance Clause 92
An Algorithm For Better Password Checking 103
Compromised CCTV and NAS Devices Found Participating In DDoS Attacks 64
Ubuntu 15.10 'Wily Werewolf' Released 191
Intel Pulling the Plug On McAfee/MX Logic Anti-Spam 42
HP To Shut Down Its OpenStack Based Public Cloud 89
Hands-On With the Fairphone 2 Modular Android Smartphone 107
Samsung 950 Pro Brings NVMe To M.2, Over 2.5GB/s 36
Sen. Ron Wyden Explains the Fight Ahead Over CISA 23
Dutch Researchers Show Connected Cars Can Be Cheaply Tracked 25
Security Researchers Face Revenge of Spy Agencies 120
Ask Slashdot: Worthwhile Security Training Courses? 70
Microsoft To Pay Up To $15K For Bugs In Two Visual Studio Tools 43
Researchers Warn Computer Clocks Can Be Easily Scrambled Via NTP Flaws 132
Not Just Paris: Community Activists Target Data Centers 151
Samsung Demos PCIe NVMe SSD At 5.6 GB Per Second, 1 Million IOPS 88
Oracle Fixes Java Vulnerability Used By Russian Cyberspies 126
Google Makes Full-Disk Encryption Mandatory For Some Android 6.0 Devices 150
Noise Protests Close Paris Data Center 157
UK Government Proposes 'License To Hack' As Encryption Proves Hard To Defeat 80
Apple Tells US Judge It's 'Impossible' To Break Through Locks On New iPhones 225
Self-Encrypting Western Digital Hard Drives Easy To Crack 74
Tattling Kettles Help Researchers Crack WiFi Networks In London 162
Criminals Hacked Chip-and-PIN System By Perfecting Point-of-Sale Attack 145
Why Aren't There Better Cybersecurity Regulations For Medical Devices? 99
eFast Malware Hijacks Browser With Chrome Clone 183
Bank's Severance Deal Requires IT Workers To Be Available For Two Years 602
Feds Looking Into Reports CIA Director's Email Was Hacked 100
LTE 4G Networks Put Androids At Risk of Overbilling and Phone Number Spoofing 113
Despite Promises, China Still Targeting US Firms 125
Facebook Notifies Users of Potential Nation-State Attacks 58
The Hostile Email Landscape 217
Americans Show 'Surprising Willingness' To Accept Internet Surveillance 223
Ask Slashdot: Good Subscription-Based Solution For PC Tech Support? 193
Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 158
Radio Waves Can Be Used To Hijack Androids and iPhones Via Siri and Google Now 49
Data Centers Coming To a City Near You 39
More Tech, STEM Workers Voluntarily Quitting Their Jobs 167
US Identifies ISIL Hacker Linked To Military Breaches 83
Report: Red Hat Buying DevOps Startup Ansible 78
Experts Have No Confidence That We Can Protect Cars and Streets From Hackers 97
China's Flash Consumption Grows To 30%; 8TB SSDs Are Coming 67
Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks 242
How Is the NSA Breaking So Much Crypto? 217
Intel's Core i5 6500 Shines As a $199 Skylake Processor, Works With Linux 119
Why Paywalls Need To Be So Fragile 98
USB Killer 2.0: a Harmless-Looking USB Stick That Destroys Computers 229
New Flash Vulnerability Being Exploited In the Wild 101
Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open 470
DevOps: Threat or Menace? (Video) 65
Japan Leads Push For AI-Based Anti-Cyberattack Solutions 34
British Police Stop 24/7 Monitoring of Julian Assange At Ecuadorian Embassy 336
Can a New Type of School Churn Out Developers Faster? 241
Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against CISA 211
Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion 116
Hundreds of Southwest Flights Delayed By Online Booking Problems 36
Kaspersky Fixes Bug That Allowed Attackers To Block Windows Update & Others 34
Wordpress Brute Force Attacks Using Multiple Passwords Per Login Via XML-RPC 80
Another Drone Crashes Near White House 58
Cyberattacks: Do Motives and Attribution Matter? 44
China Arrests Hackers At Behest of US Government 74
Pushing the Limits of Network Traffic With Open Source 55
Ask Slashdot: Knowledge Management Systems? 134
Linux Foundation: Security Problems Threaten 'Golden Age' of Open Source 77
Disclosed Netgear Flaws Under Attack 17
NetBSD 7.0 Released 58
US Government Will Not Force Companies To Decode Encrypted Data... For Now 110
LogMeIn To Acquire LastPass For $125 Million 100
First Successful Collision Attack On the SHA-1 Hashing Algorithm 87
Apple Approves, Then Removes In-App Ad Blocker 85
Iran-Based Hacking Crew Uses Fake LinkedIn Profiles In Espionage Attacks 41
Barnes & Noble Has Been Quietly Refreshing Its Nook Hardware 31
Man Behind Week-Long Bitcoin Attacks Reveals Himself 71
IP Address May Associate Lyft CTO With Uber Data Breach 103
Dell, EMC Said To Be In Merger Talks 97
NSF Awards $74.5 Million To Support Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Research 9
Google's Effort To Speed Up the Mobile Web 95
Microsoft Claims 110M Devices Now Run Windows 10 171
Jimmy Wales and Former NSA Chief Ridicule Government Plans To Ban Encryption 176
eSports Now a Part of College Athletics 110
Danish Bank Leaves Server In Debug Mode, Exposes Sensitive Data In JS Comments 41
Boarding Pass Barcodes Can Reveal Personal Data, Future Flights 64
Windows Phone Store Increasingly Targeted With Fake Mobile Apps 90
Why Is RAM Suddenly So Cheap? It Might Be Windows 209
Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0 163
Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi 173
Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel 688
From Microsoft, HoloLens VR Dev Kit, New Phones, Continuum 88
Software Defined Smart Battery Arrays Extend Laptop Life 42
Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps 281
Advertising Malware Affects Non-Jailbroken iOS Devices 69
OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10: Keeping an Open-Source Solaris Going 149
Stolen Patreon User Data Dumped On Internet 161
F-35 Ejection Seat Fears Ground Lightweight Pilots 179
Some Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Smartphones Mysteriously Powering Down 59
Samsung Decides Not To Patch Kernel Vulnerabilities In Some S4 Smartphones 144
Ask Slashdot: Is the Gap Between Data Access Speeds Widening Or Narrowing? 92
Office 2016 Proving Unstable With Apple's El Capitan 138
Motorola Marketed the Moto E 2015 On Promise of Updates, Stops After 219 Days 123
Vigilante Malware Protects Routers Against Other Security Threats 79
$50 Fire Tablet With High-capacity SDXC Slot Doesn't See E-books On the SD Card 145
DARPA Is Looking For Analog Approaches To Cyber Monitoring 41
American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination 350
Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Is Shipping 94
Experian Breached, 15 Million T-Mobile Customer's Data Exposed 161
China Beats US In Early Cuban Internet Infrastructure Investment 109
Patreon Hacked, Personal Data Accessed 79
30 Years a Sysadmin 162
Stagefright 2.0 Vulnerabilities Affect 1 Billion Android Devices 123
South Korean Citizen IDs Vulnerable, Based On US Model 57
Researchers: Thousands of Medical Devices Are Vulnerable To Hacking 29
Virginia State Police Cars Hacked 40
Will 'Chip and Pin' Credit Card Technology Really Increase Security? (Video) 317
Nerves Rattled By Highly Suspicious Windows Update Delivered Worldwide 217
500 Million Users At Risk of Compromise Via Unpatched WinRAR Bug 129
The Global Struggle To Prevent Cyberwar 57
New Attack Bypasses Mac OS X Gatekeeper 66
Citadel Botnet Operator Gets 4.5 Years In Prison 42
Carly Fiorina: I Supplied HP Servers For NSA Snooping 488
Newly Found TrueCrypt Flaw Allows Full System Compromise 106
Advertisers Already Using New iPhone Text Message Exploit 111
Raytheon Wins US Civilian Cyber Contract Worth $1 Billion 62
How the FBI Hacks Around Encryption 91
Are Enterprise Architects the "Miltons" of Their Organizations? 131
Study: $1.8 Billion In Reshipping Fraud With Stolen Cards Each Year 139
Doctors On Edge As Healthcare Gears Up For 70,000 Ways To Classify Ailments 232
Google AdSense Click Fraud Made Possible By Uncloaking Advertisers' Sites 50
Ask Slashdot: Building a Software QA Framework? 58
The Case Against Non-technical Managers 152
Analysis: China-US Hacking Accord Is Tall On Rhetoric, Short On Substance 38
Ask Slashdot: Make Windows Update Install Only Security Updates Automatically? 288
Switch To Build Largest Data Center In the World In Reno 62
Edward SnowdenTalks Alien Communications With Neil deGrasse Tyson 142
How To Clean the Cruft Left By a Windows 10 Upgrade 205
Intelligent System Hunts Out Malware Hidden In Shortened URLs 16
Chrome For Android's Incognito Mode Saves Some of the Sites You Visit 69
Saudi Arabia Almost Bought Hacking Team 26
The US and China Agree Not To Conduct Economic Espionage In Cyberspace 108
Curbing the For-Profit Cybercrime Food Chain 19
'RipSec' Goes To Hollywood: How the iCloud Celeb Hack Happened 28
Why All Boards Need a Technology Expert 67
Apple Admits iCloud Problem Has Killed iOS 9 'App Slicing' 143
The #NoEstimates Debate: An Unbiased Look At Origins, Arguments, and Leaders 299
Obama Administration Explored Ways To Bypass Smartphone Encryption 142
Modern Browsers Are Undefended Against Cookie-based MITM Attacks Over HTTPS 66
Mozilla Fixed a 14-Year-Old Bug In Firefox, Now Adblock Plus Uses Less Memory 410
How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? 618
Bjarne Stroustrup Announces the C++ Core Guidelines 262
Does IoT Data Need Special Regulation? 99
Imgur Exploited To Channel Botnet Attacks At 4chan 73
Security is an Important Coding Consideration Even When You Use Containers (Video) 57
OPM Says 5.6 million Fingerprints Stolen In Cyberattack 93
What's New In GNOME 3.18 170
Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead 303
CIA Details Agency's New Digital and Cyber Espionage Focus 35
IT Departments Try To Avoid Getting "Ubered" 233
Apple XcodeGhost Malware More Malicious Than Originally Reported 79
Chinese Researchers Propose Tor-Inspired Overhaul of Bitcoin 46
Under Public Pressure, India Withdraws Draft Encryption Policy 35
Legislation Requiring Tech Industry To Report Terrorist Activity Dropped 30
Number of XcodeGhost-Infected iOS Apps Rises 169
Facebook Dislike Hype Exploited In Phishing Campaign 54
What Hurricane Sandy Taught IT About Disaster Preparedness 68
George W Bush Made Retroactive NSA 'Fix' After Hospital Room Showdown 258
Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems? 158
Apple's iOS 9 Breaks VPNs 88
India's Worrying Draft Encryption Policy 114
South Korea's "Smart Sheriff" Nanny App Puts Children At Risk 54
Apple Cleaning Up App Store After Its First Major Attack 246
Barbie Gets a Brain 235
Private Medical Data of Over 1.5 Million People Exposed Through Amazon 106
Symantec Subsidiary Thawte Issues Rogue Google Certificates 103
Google Releases Open Source Plans For Cardboard V2 Virtual Reality Viewer 26
Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Android Malware? 191
Crash Chrome With 16 Characters 205
UK Govt's Expensive Mobile Coverage Project Builds Just 8 Masts In 4 Years 75
Technology Colonialism 81
Tracking a Bluetooth ATM Skimming Gang In Mexico 44
Heartbleed OpenSSL Flaw Still Affects 200,000 Devices 11
Inside the Pluto Public Relations Machine 58
Twitter's Tech Lead On Making Software Engineers More Efficient 146
D-Link Accidentally Publishes Private Code Signing Keys 67
What's In Your Hand? This Malware Knows 68
Android Lollipop Can Be Hacked With Very Long Password 170
Chinese Compiling "Facebook" of US Government Employees 113
XPRIZE's Jono Bacon On the Next Great Challenge 20
Are Non-Technical Certifications Worth Earning? 118
When Does Software Start Becoming Malware? 165
Bug In iOS, OS X Allows AirDrop To Write Files Anywhere On File System 94
HP To Jettison Up To 30,000 Jobs As Part of Spinoff 273
Italian Military To Switch To LibreOffice and ODF 106
Microsoft Signs Renewed Cybersecurity Agreement With NATO 37

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