Security Stories for 2011

Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? 339
Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise 234
Attack Tool Released For WPS Setup Flaw 164
TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas 338
Researchers Demo New GSM Attacks at Chaos Communications Congress 17
Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update 156
Progressive Era Hacker Griefed Marconi Demonstration 147
New York Times Hacked? 103
Data Exposed In Stratfor Compromise Analyzed 141
New WiFi Setup Flaw Allows Easy Router PIN Guessing 86
Will Hackers Try To Disrupt the Iowa Caucuses? 162
GnuPG Short ID Collision Has Occurred. 110
Israeli Spyware Sold To Iran 164
Researchers Build TCP-Based Spam Detection 81
New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End 126
Android Approved By Pentagon 160
Anonymous Hacks US Think Tank Stratfor 356
Cyber Insurance Industry Expected To Boom 58
U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare 206
Trion Worlds' Rift Account Database Compromised 88
Vanity Fair On the TSA and Security Theater 256
EFF Reverse Engineers Carrier IQ 103
The Problem With Windows 8's Picture Password 206
Chinese Developer Forum Leaks 6 Million User Credentials 102
Twitter To Open Source Android Security Tech 164
EU Shipping Sector Cyber Security Awareness "Non-Existent" 55
Researcher Claims Siemens Lied About Security Bugs 46
Book Review: Defense Against the Black Arts 58
New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 284
US Chamber of Commerce Infiltrated By Chinese Hackers 173
Gaining a Remote Shell On Android 124
October, November the Worst Months For Writing Buggy Code 136
Tech Forensics Take Center Stage in Manning Pre-Trial 172
MIT Software Allows Queries On Encrypted Databases 68
Moxie Marlinspike Answers Your Questions 76
How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest? 238
Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children 284
New Standard For Issuance of SSL/TLS Certificates 62
Challenges of Setting Up a Security Conference 29
Google Wallet Stores Card Data In Plain Text 213
Meet the Strange Bedfellows Who Could Stop SOPA 231
Hotel ISP iBahn Denies Breach By Chinese Hackers 30
Feds Arrest GeneSimmons.Com Attacker 180
The Undeclared "Cyber Cold War" With China 260
Carrier IQ Responds To FBI Drama, EFF Wants More Information 140
Was Russia Behind Stuxnet? 281
Computer Virus Forces Hospital To Divert Ambulances 213
Google-Funded Study Knocks Firefox Security 225
TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts 493
Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? 332
OpenDNS Releases DNS Encryption Tool 94
Another Dutch CA Hacked 152
Two-Thirds of Lost USB Drives Carry Malware 196
Study Shows Many Sites Still Failing Basic Security Measures 103
Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability 236
Lawmaker Proposes Cyberthreat Sharing Group 41
PlayBook Jailbreak Tool Released 60
Scammers Work Around Two-Factor Authentication With Social Engineering 186
Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant 561
IT Pros Can't Resist Peeking At Privileged Info 388
Browser History Sniffing Is Back 161
Domain Theft-for-Ransom Hits css-tricks.com and Others 147
San Francisco Team Wins DARPA's De-Shredding Contest 94
How Tech Vendors Help Governments Spy On Their Citizens 102
Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? 517
Patriot Act Clouds Picture For Tech 203
Researchers Find Big Leaks In Pre-installed Android Apps 136
UK Recruiting Codebreakers Via Social Networks 85
Bank Accounts Vulnerable For Victims of ZeuS Trojan Variant 'Gameover' 80
RIM PlayBook Tablet Jailbroken 63
WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study 96
Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks 529
China Wants Cyber Crisis Hotline 58
News Corp. Hacking Scandal Spreads To Government 105
Attackers Leak UN Usernames and Passwords 48
Duqu Attackers Managed to Wipe C&C Servers 227
Behind the Government's Rules of Cyber War 117
Google Researchers Propose Plan To Fix CA System 91
Printers Could Be the Next Attack Vector 175
Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? 253
Internet Monitoring: Who Watches the Watchers? 75
Apache Flaw Allows Internal Network Access 99
AT&T Customer Phone Hacking Tied To Terrorists 39
Hacker Tries To Land IT Job At Marriott Via Extortion 218
Airport Security: Thermal Lie-Detectors, Cloned Sniffer Dogs 101
Senator Wants 'Terrorist' Label On Blogs 370
iTunes Flaw Allowed Spying On Dissidents 82
FBI Scolds NASDAQ Over Out of Date Patches 66
Dutch Government Officially Trusts OpenVPN-NL 53
Carrier IQ Relents, Apologizes 78
Police Encrypt Radios To Tune Out Public 242
Ask Hacker and Security Gadfly Moxie Marlinspike 70
Water Pump Destruction Not Due To SCADA Hack 90
US Government Probes Huawei and ZTE 122
CarrierIQ Tries To Silence Security Researcher 216
Tool Kills Hidden Linux Bugs, Vulnerabilities 47
New Batch of Leaked Climate Emails 585
Users' Data Target Of 'Targeted Attack' on AT&T 28
OpenPGP Implemented In JavaScript 167
Separating Fact From Hype On Mobile Malware 46
Fox-IT Completes the Picture On the Factored RSA-512 Keys 38
MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly? 748
SCADA Hacker: Water District Used 3-Character Password 213
Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack 575
Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? 296
Feds Investigating Water Utility Pump Failure As Possible Cyberattack 136
Why Do Companies Backup So Infrequently? 403
Windows 8 Secure Boot Defeated 205
Potential 0-Day Vulnerability For BIND 9 187
Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge 358
Hiding Messages In VoIP Packets 83
TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners 233
Experts 'Convinced' Duqu Work of Stuxnet Authors 85
Romanian Accused of Breaking Into NASA 169
New Malware Signed With Stolen Government Certificate 34
GAO Criticizes IRS Over Serious IT Deficiencies 57
EU Approves Unified Full Body Scanner Regulations 225
French Power Company Fined For Hacking Greenpeace 196
Inside the Duqu Worm's Source Code 157
Mac OS X Sandbox Security Hole Uncovered 155
Judge Makes Divorcing Couple Swap Facebook Passwords 332
So You Want To Be a Zero Day Exploit Millionaire? 36
DARPA Wants To Get Rid of Password Protection 205
Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion 434
How Cell Phone Money Laundering Works 39
FBI Takes Out $14M DNS Malware Operation 57
Image Analysis and Verification To Track Pictures 31
DARPA Seeks Input On Securing Networks Against Attackers 119
Anonymous Hacks Finland 129
Vulnerabilities Discovered In Prison SCADA Systems 128
Brazilian ISPs Hit With Massive DNS Attack 85
Charlie Miller Circumvents Code Signing For iOS Apps 172
Help Rename the Department of Homeland Security 382
RIAA Lawyer Complains DMCA May Need Revamp 303
Hacked MIT Server Used To Stage Attacks 75
Apple Security Chief Steps Down After iPhone Gaffe 93
Open Source Tool Scans For Duqu Drivers 64
SSL Certificate Authorities vs. Convergence, Perspectives 127
MS Traces Duqu Zero-Day To Font Parsing In Win32k 221
Book Review: Securing the Clicks 19
Microsoft, Mozilla and Google Ban Malaysian Intermediate CA 80
Apple To Require Sandboxing For Mac App Store Apps 584
Duqu Installer Exploits Windows Kernel Zero Day 164
How X-Ray Scanners Became Mandatory In US Airports 264
China's Cyber-Warfare Capabilities Overstated 140
Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack 397
Ask Slashdot: How To Securely Share Passwords? 402
OpenBSD 5.0 Unleashed On the World 185
Spear Phishing Campaign Hits Dozens of Chemical, Defense Firms 46
New Mac OS Trojan Produces BitCoins 247
Microsoft Proposes Fix For E-Voting Attack 111
First Android Device Certified For DoD Personnel 79
Authorities Seize Duqu's C&C Servers In Mumbai 53
Microsoft Drops Suit Against Firm In Botnet Case 49
Ohio Emergency Responders Stage Mock Zombie Invasion 219
RIM Helps Indian Authorities Access BlackBerry Messages 74
Four CAs Have Been Compromised Since June 87
TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers 658
FAA Goes To the Web To Fight Laser-Pointing 379
Hackers Briefly Controlled US Government Satellites 261
How To Rob a Bank: One Social Engineer's Story 111
Expert: Duqu Is a Custom Attack Framework 51
New Attack Tool Exploits SSL Renegotiation Bug 47
Mitsubishi Hack Stole Nuclear, Defense Data 78
The Register Email Address Blunder 70
Bug Opens Chrome to Easy Remote Code Execution 61
UK Government Pushing For 'Trusted Computing' 291
XML Encryption Broken, Need To Fix W3C Standard 80
New JBOSS Worm Infecting Unpatched Servers 47
Nasdaq Intrusion Spreads To Listed Companies 50
Most Sophisticated Rootkit Getting an Overhaul 104
Researchers ID Skype, BitTorrent Users 180
How To Stop the Next WikiLeaks 191
TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway 578
British Police Accused of Stealing Software 76
German Surveillance Trojan Spies On Fifteen Apps 69
iPhone Keylogger Can Snoop On Desktop Typing 103
Precursor To the Next Stuxnet? 49
Making Sensitive Data Location Aware 69
Analysis of 250,000 Hacker Conversations 111
NoScript For Android Devices Released 107
How To Catch a Laptop Thief? 485
Security Researcher Threatened With Vulnerability Repair Bill 231
SEC Says Public Firms May Need To Disclose Cyberattacks 21
US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network 156
Air Force Comments On Drone Malware 74
More Details On the German Government's Use of Malware 58
NATO Exercise Banned From Jamming GPS 260
SEO Via DNS "Piggybacking" 74
Sony Targeted Yet Again; Thwarts Attackers This Time 68
RSA Blames Nation State For Cyber Attack 145
Air Force Network Admins Found Out About Drone Virus Through News Story 161
Wine HQ Password Database Compromised 124
Microsoft Says IE9 Blocks More Malware Than Chrome 226
Father of SSL Talks Serious Security Turkey 74
Blue Coat Denies Its Devices Helping Syrian Gov't 73
German State Confesses To, Downplays Government Spyware 104
German Researchers Crack Mifare RFID Encryption 44
2-Year ID Theft Investigation Yields 86 Arrests; 25 More Sought 154
Incomplete PDF Redaction Leaks Data From UK MoD 171
Predator Drone 'Virus' Could Be Military's Own Monitoring 99
Facebook's URL Scanner Vulnerable To Cloaking Attack 34
German Government's Malware Analyzed 162
FBI Plans Nationwide Face-Recognition Trials In 2012 102
US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus 370
Hackers Buying IPv4 Blocks To Evade Detection 89
DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project 438
The State of Hacked Accounts 69
Android Malware Using Blog As C&C Server 89
After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked 315
Welcome Back Kernel.org 94
How Windows Gets Infected With Malware 373
Firefox Advises Users To Disable McAfee Plugin 213
SAIC Loses Data of 4.9 Million Patients 182
Is Off-Shoring a National Security Threat? 319
Inside ICS-CERT's War Room 30
Wikimedia Foundation Enables HTTPS For All Projects 69
HTC Android Backdoor Leaks Private User Data 82
Facebook Adds Malicious Link Protection 113
Security Vulnerabilities On HTC Android Devices 97
Russian Software Company Says Its App Can Crack BlackBerry Security 78
Prototyping Boards Make It Easier To Find Flaws in Specialized Hardware 56
Security By Obscurity — a New Theory 265
Web Hosts — One-Stop-Shops For Mass Hacking? 70
Security Flaw Bypasses AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Screen Lock 49
Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus 258
Rob Malda Casts a Jaded Eye at Amazon's Silk 143
To Stop BEAST, Mozilla Developer Proposes Blocking Java Framework 309
Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon 515
Man-In-the-Middle Remote Attack On Diebold Voting Machines 251
Microsoft Disables Kelihos Botnet 94
Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior 80
Detailed Analysis of the SK Communications Hack 21
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Information Paranoia 585
Mysql.com Hacked, Made To Serve Malware 81
SCADA Problems Too Big To Call 'Bugs,' Says DHS 92
Aussie Researcher Cracks OS X Lion Passwords 165
Why the BEAST Doesn't Threaten Tor Users 54
New Mac OS X Trojan Hides Inside PDFs 194
FBI Arrests LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers 289
Canberra Police Want Drones To Track Cars 154
Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History 230
Google Prepares Fix To Stop SSL/TLS Attacks 122
Microsoft Dumps Partner For Fake Support Call Scam 212
Adobe Pushes Emergency Flash Player Security Fix 56
Massachusetts Attorney General, Victim of iTunes Fraud 100
EFF System To Warn of Certificate Breaches 35
How Microsoft Can Lock Linux Off Windows 8 PCs 899
Gang Used 3D Printers To Make ATM Skimmers 212
Hackers Break Browser SSL/TLS Encryption 110

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