Security Stories for 2012

EFnet Paralyzed By Vulnerability 156
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
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
Google Chrome 25 Will Disable Silent Extension Installation 121
NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter 292
ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time 268
Obama Releases National Strategy For Information Sharing 83
New Malware Wiping Data On Computers In Iran 95
Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years 346
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
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
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
Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks 306
Interviews: Eugene Kaspersky Answers Your Questions 82
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
Hacked Review System Leads To Fake Reviews and Retraction of Scientific Papers 67
Malicious QR Codes Posted Where There's Lots of Foot Traffic 89
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
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
How the Eurograbber Attack Stole 36M Euros 57
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
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
FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn 346
Microsoft Security Essentials Loses AV-Test Certificate 185
Real-World Cyber City Used To Train Cyber Warriors 59
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
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
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
Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous 569
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
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
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
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
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
Australian Telcos Declare SMS Unsafe For Bank Transactions 42
$50,000 Zero-Day Exploit Evades Adobe's Sandbox, Say Russian Analysts 56
Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court 380
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
Attack Steals Crypto Key From Co-Located Virtual Machines 73
Should Hacked Companies Disclose Their Losses? 68
PayPal, Symantec Hacked In Anonymous November 5 Hacking Spree 101
New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email 189
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
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
Security Firm VUPEN Claims To Have Hacked Windows 8 and IE10 118
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
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
SSL Holes Found In Critical Non-Browser Software 84
Experts Warn About Security Flaws In Airline Boarding Passes 199
Huawei Offers 'Complete and Unrestricted' Source Code Access 255
Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? 610
How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Revealed Massive Misuse of DKIM 115
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
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Protect My Android Devices From Hackers? 295
DARPA Funds a $300 Software-Defined Radio For Hackers 94
Aussie Researchers Crack Transport Crypto, Get Free Rides 88
Smartphone Mugging More Popular Than Ever 285
Zimmermann's Silent Circle Now Live 127
Trade Show Video Features Iranian Tech, Talk of Stuxnet Retaliation 131
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
NASA Exploring $1.5 Million Unmanned Aircraft Competition 38
Explosive Detecting Devices Face Off With Bomb Dogs 115
Malware Is 'Rampant' On Medical Devices In Hospitals 234
Steam Protocol Opens PCs to Remote Code Execution 128
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
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
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
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
US Congress Rules Huawei a 'Security Threat' 186
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
Hitachi Develops Boarding Gate With Built-In Explosives Detector 118
Europe Joins Forces In Massive Simulated Cyber Attack 36
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
Graphics Cards: the Future of Online Authentication? 178
White House Confirms Chinese Cyberattack 212
PlaceRaider Builds a Model of Your World With Smartphone Photos 120
Lingering Questions On the Extent of the Adobe Hack 97
Privacy Watchdogs Want Facebook, Datalogix Deal Probed 8
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
Bitcoin Exchange BitFloor Says It Will Replace Stolen Coins 117
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
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
Ask Slashdot: Actual Best-in-Show For Free Anti Virus? 515
Did Microsoft Know About the IE Zero-Day Flaw In Advance? 123
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
Mikko Hypponen's Malware Odyssey 51
Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security 232
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Rooted 62
TSA Spending $245 Million On "Second Generation" Body Scanners 335
Inside Look At Eastern European Vs. East Asian Hackers 63
Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack 252
Wireless Analysis With Monitor Mode On Android 49
Microsoft Issues Workaround For IE 0-Day 101
New IE Zero-Day Being Exploited In the Wild 134
Spoken Commands Crash Bank Phone Lines 178
Radioactive Tool Goes Missing In Texas 163
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Detained In Sweden 95
Report Hints At Privacy Problem of Drones That Can Recognize Faces 107
Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland 297
Why WikiLeaks' Spinoff OpenLeaks Failed 79
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
Malware Used in Aramco Attack Likely Work of Amateurs 18
GAO Slams DHS Over BioWatch Biological Defense System 88
Go Daddy: Network Issues, Not Hacks Or DDoS, Caused Downtime 143
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

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