Security Stories for 2013

X11/X.Org Security In Bad Shape 179
No Question: Snowden Was 2013's Most Influential Tech Figure 108
4 Tips For Your New Laptop 310
Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text 341
The Startling Array of Hacking Tools In NSA's Armory 215
Former CIA/NSA Head: NSA Is "Infinitely" Weaker As a Result of Snowden's Leaks 572
Hacker Took Over BBC Server, Tried To Sell Access On Christmas Day 41
Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze 139
Snapchat Users' Phone Numbers Exposed To Hackers 69
Encrypted PIN Data Taken In Target Breach 213
Millions of Dogecoin Stolen Over Christmas 132
Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target? 68
F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen Cancels RSA Talk In Protest 248
Researchers Connect 91% of Numbers With Names In Metadata Probe 84
Microsoft Security Essentials Misses 39% of Malware 149
DHS Turns To Unpaid Interns For Nation's Cyber Security 174
Target Has Major Credit Card Breach 191
How a MacBook Camera Can Spy Without Lighting Up 371
Massive Android Mobile Botnet Hijacking SMS Data 117
NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware 698
The Case For a Global, Compulsory Bug Bounty 81
Is Bruce Schneier Leaving His Job At BT? 96
Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security 280
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Secure Your Parents' PC? 408
IETF To Change TLS Implementation In Applications 80
Leaked Passwords On Display At a German Museum 42
Safari Stores Previous Browsing Session Data Unencrypted 135
Google Fixes Credit Card Security Hole, But Snubs Discoverer 127
Switzerland Wants To Become the World's Data Vault 131
Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters 151
NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking 174
CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption 118
Storing Your Encrypted Passwords Offline On a Dedicated Device 107
Meet Paunch: the Accused Author of the BlackHole Exploit Kit 52
Insight On FBI Hacking Ops 137
Europol, Microsoft Target 2-Million Strong ZeroAccess Click Fraud Botnet 44
FSF Responds To Microsoft's Privacy and Encryption Announcement 174
Microsoft's NSA 'Transparency' Push Remains Pretty Opaque 90
Two Million Passwords Compromised By Keylogger Virus 174
In Letter To 20 Automakers, Senator Demands Answers On Cybersecurity 80
Ask Slashdot: Application Security Non-existent, Boss Doesn't Care. What To Do? 310
Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute 562
How To Hijack a Drone For $400 In Less Than an Hour 161
D-Link Patches Critical Vulnerability In Older Routers 54
Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords 299
R2-D2: Mall Cop 139
New Fujitsu Laptop Reads Your Palm, For Security 107
A Mercenary Approach To Botnets 34
New Windows XP Zero-Day Under Attack 241
European Parliament Culls Public Wi-Fi Access After Email Hack 68
Death and the NSA: A Q&A With Bruce Schneier 149
Spamhaus Calls for Fining Operators of Insecure Servers 170
Intelligence Officials Fear Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache 381
Researchers Build Covert Acoustical Mesh Networks In Air 107
Route-Injection Attacks Detouring Internet Traffic 85
NSA Infected 50,000 Computer Networks With Malicious Software 264
IRS Left Taxpayer Data Vulnerable and Lied About It 79
Users Identified Through Typing, Mouse Movements 149
Researcher Offers New Perspective On Stuxnet-Wielding Sabotage Program 46
Microsoft Customers Hit With New Wave of Fake Tech Support Calls 201
Many UAVs Vulnerable To Directed-Energy Weapons 153
Ask Slashdot: Can You Trust Online Tax Software? 237
1.2% of Apps On Google Play Are Repackaged To Deliver Ads, Collect Info 131
Netflix Users In Danger of Unknowingly Picking Up Malware 153
Yahoo Encrypting Data In Wake of NSA Revelations 137
US Wary of Allowing Russian Electronic Monitoring Stations Inside US 232
Skydiving Accident Leaves Security Guru Cedric 'Sid' Blancher Dead At 37 332
FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous 156
NSA Wants To Reveal Its Secrets To Prevent Snowden From Revealing Them First 216
TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance 337
HTTP 2.0 May Be SSL-Only 320
The Operations of a Cyber Arms Dealer 18
Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4 and SHA-1 92
Porn-Surfing Execs Infecting Corporate Networks With Malware 151
IE Zero-Day Exploit Disappears On Reboot 103
International Space Station Infected With Malware Carried By Russian Astronauts 226
British Intelligence Responds To Slashdot About Man-in-Middle Attack 256
New Zealand's Hackable Transport Card Grants Free Bus Rides 96
Bitcoin (Probably) Isn't Broken 78
Snowden Used Social Engineering To Get Classified Documents 276
Credit Card Numbers Still Google-able 157
Researchers Dare AI Experts To Crack New GOTCHA Password Scheme 169
TrueCrypt To Go Through a Crowdfunded, Public Security Audit 104
Security Breach Forces Bitcoin Bank Inputs.io To Halt Operations 285
Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government 510
Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Attacks 165
Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks 156
Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed 230
Limo Company Hack Exposes Juicy Targets, 850k Credit Card Numbers 43
Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. 218
Snowden Publishes "A Manifesto For the Truth" 398
OpenBSD 5.4 Released 102
'Morris Worm' Turns 25: Watch How TV Covered It Then 51
Airgap-Jumping Malware May Use Ultrasonic Networking To Communicate 265
Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound 245
Pen Testers Break Into Gov't Agency With Fake Social Media ID 109
Phone Calls More Dangerous Than Malware To Companies 82
NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters 394
Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro 162
Car Hackers Mess With Speedometers, Odometers, Alarms and Locks 159
How Your Compiler Can Compromise Application Security 470
Adobe Breach Compromised Over 38 Million Users, Photoshop Source Code 145
Chrome Will End XP Support in 2015; Firefox Has No Plans To Stop 257
CAPTCHA Busted? Company Claims To Have Broken Protection System 141
Google Updates ReCAPTCHA With Easier CAPTCHAs For Humans 81
LinkedIn's New Mobile App Called 'a Dream For Attackers' 122
The Internet Archive Switches To HTTPS Connections By Default 40
87-Year-Old World War II Veteran Takes On the TSA 218
IZON IP Cameras Riddled With Security Flaws 55
How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries 250
PHP.net Compromised 189
DARPA Issues $2mil Cyber Grand Challenge 67
The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested 289
ACA Health Exchange Contractors Have History of Security Failures 144
Users Slow to Update Netgear ReadyNAS Boxes Open To Remote Exploit 53
Firefox's Blocked-By-Default Java Isn't Going Down Well 362
Ask Slashdot: Can Bruce Schneier Be Trusted? 330
Simple Bug Exposed Verizon Users' SMS Histories 60
A Live Map of Ongoing DDoS Attacks 46
Experian Sold Social Security Numbers To ID Theft Service 390
No Zombie Uprising, But Problems Persist With Emergency Alert System 54
Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack 242
Communications Protocol Leaves Power Grid Vulnerable 68
Facebook 'Stalker' Tool Uses Graph Search For Data Mining 38
New Standard For Website Authentication Proposed: SQRL (Secure QR Login) 234
Researchers Show Apple Can Read iMessages 124
Capturing the Flag, SQLi-Style 24
Swartz-Designed Whistleblower Tool "SecureDrop" Launched 79
35,000 vBulletin Sites Have Already Been Exploited By Week Old Hole 91
Security Researchers Want To Fully Audit Truecrypt 233
Ed Felten: Why Email Services Should Be Court-Order Resistant 183
Lavabit Briefly Allowing Users To Recover Their Data 52
D-Link Router Backdoor Vulnerability Allows Full Access To Settings 228
Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? 319
Would You Secure Personal Data With DRM Tools? 101
Want To Hijack a Domain? Just Get a Fax Machine 162
Stealing Silicon Valley 139
Google Offers Cash For Security Fixes To Linux and Other FOSS Projects 94
Army Researching Network System That Defends Against Social Engineering 57
The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 360
Dangerous VBulletin Exploit In the Wild 43
Microsoft Hands Out $28k In IE11 Bug Bounty Program 57
Ask Professor Kevin Fu About Medical Device Security 57
MasterCard Joining Push For Fingerprint ID Standard 138
The Hail Mary Cloud and the Lessons Learned 99
HHS-Run Website Hacked To Hawk Boots, Perfumes, and NFL Jerseys 43
Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised 256
Security After the Death of Trust 162
Former NSA Honcho Calls Corporate IT Security "Appalling" 174
Another 100 Gigabit DDoS Attack Strikes — This Time Unreflected 93
Microsoft Azure Platform Certified "Secure" By Department of Defense 90
Sinkhole Sucks Brains From Wasteful Bitcoin Mining Botnet 203
Security Researchers Rewarded With $12.50 Voucher To Buy Yahoo T-Shirt 138
John McAfee's Latest Project: Shielding Against Surveillance 100
Students Hack School-Issued iPads Within One Week 375
How Your Smartphone Can Spy On What You Type 77
Rapid7 Launches Crowdsourced Security Research Project 39
Senators Push To Preserve NSA Phone Surveillance 252
Ask Slashdot: Has Gmail's SSL Certificate Changed, How Would We Know? 233
Malware Now Hiding In Graphics Cards 125
NSA Director Wants Threat Data Sharing With Private Sector 126
LexisNexis and Other Major Data Brokers Hacked By ID Theft Service 99
CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken 481
IDF Hackers Test Readiness In Israel For Cyberattacks 61
Snowden Docs: Brits Hacked Accounts of Belgian IT Admins 126
iOS 7 Lock Screen Bug Leaves Certain Apps Vulnerable For Access 135
Crowdfunded Bounty For Hacking iPhone 5S Fingerprint Authentication 148
Java Update Implements Whitelists To Combat 0-Day Hacks 55
Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet 285
New IE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Discovered 63
WeChat IM Application Could Disclose Your Password To Attackers 49
NSA Bought Exploit Service From VUPEN 81
UK Cryptographers Call For UK and US To Out Weakened Products 105
London Tube Cleaners Don't Want Fingerprint Clock-in 351
Security Company Says NASDAQ Waited Two Weeks To Fix XSS Flaw 61
German Data Protection Expert Warns Against Using iPhone5S Fingerprint Function 303
$20 'Toy' Deactivates Cheap Home Alarms, Opens Doors 153
Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans 166
Your Brain Waves Are a Password: How Your Next Car Will Check You're Not a Thief 169
Can the iPhone Popularize Fingerprint Readers? 356
The Windows Flaw That Cracks Amazon Web Services 114
Device Security: How Border Searches Are Really Used 223
Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn 566
How To Foil NSA Sabotage: Use a Dead Man's Switch 259
Book Review: The Practice of Network Security Monitoring 15
Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? 472
Would You Tell People How To Crack Your Software? 129
Survey: Most IT Staff Don't Communicate Security Risks 227
Government To Release Hundreds of Documents On NSA Spying 123
Windows 8's Picture Passwords Weaker Than Users Might Hope 51
Stuxnet Expert Dismisses NIST Cyber Security Framework, Proposes Alternative 32
Amazon Hiring More Than a 100 Who Can Get Top Secret Clearances 213
Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk 478
353,436 Exposed ZTE Devices Found In Net Census 29
New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA 250
US Mounted 231 Offensive Cyber-operations In 2011, Runs Worldwide Botnet 367
Indian Government To Ban Use of US Email Services For Official Communications 219
Kelihos Relying On CBL Blacklists To Evaluate New Bots 23
A Closer Look At the Syrian Electronic Army 47
CoreText Font Rendering Bug Leads To iOS, OS X Exploit 178
Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August 186
Researchers Reverse-Engineer Dropbox, Cracking Heavily Obfuscated Python App 242
New York Times and Twitter Attacked By Syrian Electronic Army 169
Tesla Model S REST API Authentication Flaws 161
Lord Blair Calls for Laws To Stop 'Principled' Leaking of State Secrets 395
Feature Phone Hack Can Block Calls, Texts On Some Networks 39
China's .cn Domain Servers Suffer DDoS Attack 80
NSA Cracked Into Encrypted UN Video Conferences 427
Security Community Raises $12k For Researcher Snubbed By Facebook 95
Online Games a 'Playground' For Organized Crime 73
Motorola Uses NFC To Enable Touch-to-Unlock For Smartphones 87
German Government Warns Windows 8 Is an Unacceptable Security Risk 373
US Gov't To Issue Secure Online IDs 205
Three Banks Lose Millions After Wire Transfer Switches Hacked 179
"Jekyll" Test Attack Sneaks Through Apple App Store, Wreaks Havoc 206
McAfee Regrets "Flawed" Trillion Dollar Cyber Crime Claims 39
Instagram "Likes" Worth More Than Stolen Credit Cards 106
Security Researcher Makes His Point By Hacking Into Zuckerberg's Facebook Page 266
Researchers Release Tool That Can Scan the Entire Internet In Under an Hour 97
Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act 426
Google To Encrypt Cloud Storage Data By Default 217
Google Admits Bitcoin Thieves Exploited Android Crypto PRNG Flaw 183
Washington Post Hacked, a Day After New York Times 98
Twitter Eyes Signatures To Kill Fake Followers 52
DARPA Fears Big Data Could Become Big Threat 87
Google Multiplies Low-Tier Bug Bounties By Factor of Five 29
Hacking Lightbulbs To Cause a Sustained Blackout 115
New Attack Uses Attackers' Own Ad Network To Deliver Android Malware 59
All Bitcoin Wallets On Android Vulnerable To Theft 137
Ask Slashdot: Best/Newest Hardware Without "Trusted Computing"? 290
Chaos Computer Club, Others Scoff At German Email Security Move As "Marketing" 135
DEF CON Hackers Unveil a New Way of Visualizing Web Vulnerabilities 57
Finland's Upper Secondary School Exams Going All-Linux 55
NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins 634
Consumer Device Hacking Concerns Getting Lost In Translation 100
Stop Fixing All Security Vulnerabilities, Say B-Sides Security Presenters 88
MS: Windows Phone 8 Wi-Fi Vulnerable, Cannot Be Patched 146
Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy 482
Former NSA Chief Warns Hackers Will Attack US If Snowden Is Captured 413
Zimbabweans Hit By Cyber Attacks During Election 63
Backdoor Found In OpenX Ad Platform 43
Usenix and EFF Reps Talk About VW's Attempt to Suppress a Presentation (Video) 29
Def Con Hackers On Whether They'd Work For the NSA 126
TOR Wants You To Stop Using Windows, Disable JavaScript 341
Wi-Fi Pineapple Hacking Device Sells Out At DEF CON 132
Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off 558
MIT Students Release Code To 3D-Print High Security Keys 207
The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet 211
Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail 583
30 Percent of Mobile Malware Made By 10 Russian Firms 50

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