IT Stories for 2008

400,000 PCs Infected With Fake "Antivirus 2009" 353
Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide 785
The 2008 Malware Challenge 29
Tales From the Support Crypt 855
CCC Create a Rogue CA Certificate 300
CCC Hackers Break DECT Telephones' Security 116
FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge 222
The Best Keyboards For Every Occasion 523
Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware 224
Smart Spam Filtering For Forums and Blogs? 183
Using Lasers To Generate Random Numbers Faster 149
AMD Phenom II Available To Distributors This Week 114
CastleCops Anti-Malware Site Closes Down 68
Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Breaks Some MacBook Pros 313
Thai Premier Spams Nation, Prompts Consumer Outcry 81
Last Major Supplier Calls It Quits For VHS 308
How Do You Monitor Documents? 237
Linux 2.6.28 Promises Year-End Presents 305
Cisco Launching Blade Servers in 2009 87
MS Issues Critical SQL Server Flaw Warning 69
NSA's History of Communications Security — For Your Eyes, Too 52
Quicken 2007 For Mac Lacks EV Cert Support 108
How To Create More Jobs 368
Rails and Merb Ruby Web Frameworks Merge 80
Repair Crews Reach Vicinity of Damaged Cables In Mediterranean 145
Microsoft Extends XP To May 2009 For OEMs 605
Perfect MITM Attacks With No-Check SSL Certs 300
With Lawsuit Settled, Hackers Working With MBTA 90
Thieves Take the Cake 91
Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed 182
NSA Patents a Way To Spot Network Snoops 161
VirtualBox 2.1 Supports 64-Bit VM In 32-Bit Host 374
The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning 327
NIST Announces Round 1 Candidates For SHA-3 Competition 125
Is Finding Part Time Work In IT Unrealistic? 396
Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive 465
Mechanical AI Made In LittleBigPlanet 65
Hacked Business Owner Stuck With $52k Phone Bill 300
Study Finds Hundreds of Stolen Data Dumps 58
Researchers Create Graphite Memory 10 Atoms Thick 135
Toshiba To Launch First 512GB Solid State Drive 256
Personalized Spam Rising Sharply, Study Finds 142
Microsoft Rushes Internet Explorer Patch 376
IRS Doesn't Check Cyberaudit Logs 78
If Programming Languages Were Religions 844
Data Breach Notices Show Tip of the Iceberg 50
CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? 301
Canadian Nuke Bunker To Be Converted Into Data Fortress 197
Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability 455
The Year of 2008 In Cybercrime 47
Is MySQL's Community Eating the Company? 223
Safari and Chrome: Tied For the Worst Password Manager 218
BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? 291
Larry Wall Talks Perl, Culture, and Community 123
Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug 175
Huge iPhone Cut-and-Paste Tool Security Flaw 85
McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry PDAs 165
Intel Developers Demo USB 3.0 Throughput On Linux 231
BD+ Successfully Resealed 443
Mars Phoenix Lander's Ovens Were Destined To Fail 77
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Now Final 57
Ask Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin About US Cybersecurity Plans 92
Five PC Power Myths Debunked 551
Left 4 Dead Bug Patched Quickly, EVE Exploit Takes 4 Years 157
Ericsson and Intel Offer Remote Notebook Lockdown 105
Google Chrome Is Out of Beta 444
Broadband Access Without the Pork? 412
Oracle Adds Data-integrity Code To Linux Kernel 53
UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs 545
Oops! Missed One Fix — Windows Attacks Under Way 292
Botnets As "eWMDs" 172
Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers 538
DNSSEC Advances in gTLDs; Bernstein Intros DNSCurve 179
USPS Server Meltdown 238
Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs 516
Comparison of Nine Ruby Implementations 75
Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security 459
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Adds Private Browsing 216
Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming 326
21 Million German Bank Accounts For Sale 302
Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant 155
Nmap Network Scanning 125
Is There a Cyberwar, and Is the US Losing It? 320
Firefox 2.0 Update To Remove Phishing Detection 351
Cell Phone SIM Cards Lead To Terrorists' Trail 118
What Programming Language For Linux Development? 997
Why Auto-Scaling In the Cloud Is a Bad Idea 124
FBI Vaguely Warns of Asterisk Vishing Vulnerability 57
What Happens To Code From Failed Projects? 225
Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? 620
Automated Scripts Overrun eBay Holiday Contest 182
IPv6 Adoption Up 300 Percent Over 2 Years 425
Grey Lines Mar MacBook Air Displays 288
IEEE Says Multicore is Bad News For Supercomputers 251
Players Furious Over Buggy GTA IV PC Release 384
Online Billpay Provider Loses Control of Domains 232
Against Unknown Viruses, Avira AntiVir the Winner For Now 170
Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent 208
'Greasemonkey' Malware Targets Firefox 370
Python 3.0 Released 357
A Look At Modern Game AI 87
Who Protects the Internet? 177
Apple Says Macs Are Safe, No Antivirus Needed 449
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Expected Tomorrow 149
DMCA Exemptions Desired To Hack iPhones, Remix DVDs 188
The Backstory of the Kaminsky Bug 122
Distributed, Low-Intensity Botnets 167
Apple Quietly Recommends Antivirus Software For Macs 484
New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole 223
Avoiding Mistakes Can Be a Huge Mistake 268
MySQL in a Nutshell 86
MySQL 5.1 Released, Not Quite Up To Par 175
Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown 872
IT Job Without a Degree? 1123
Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python 311
A 1941 Paper-and-Pencil Cipher 75
Would You Add Easter Eggs To Software Produced At Work? 747
Significant Russian Attack On US Military Networks 270
Estonian ISP Shuts Srizbi Back Down, For Now 237
IT Cutbacks For 2012 London Olympics 190
Talking Web, Memory Aids, and Solar Phones In 5 Years 109
Suggestions For Cheap Metrics Eye Candy Software? 201
Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On 205
jQuery in Action 154
Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki 160
Searching DNA For Relatives Raises Concerns 199
Experts Tell Feds To Sign the DNS Root ASAP 147
Researchers Latch Onto BitTorrent To Spot Connection Problems 87
Symantec Reports Spate of Attacks Via Recent Windows Flaw 56
Lenovo Service Disables Laptops With a Text Message 257
Facebook Wins $873 Million Lawsuit Against Spammer 128
Google Sorts 1 Petabyte In 6 Hours 166
Zimbra Desktop Vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack 49
Taking a Look at Nexenta's Blend of Solaris and Ubuntu 248
Police Cars To Transmit Real-Time Video 149
Interest Still High In the Netflix Algorithm Competition 77
Chinese Hacking of American Military Networks On the Rise 205
Microsoft Blames Add-Ons For Browser Woes 307
Setting Up a Home Dev/Testing Environment? 136
Worm Attack Prompts DoD To Ban Use of External Media 295
Kaminsky Bug Options Include "Do Nothing," Says IETF 134
Towards a World Wide Grid? 105
Interviewing Experienced IT People? 835
London's Oystercard Gets New Contract, But Same Suppliers 143
Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA's "Behavior Detection" 412
When Agile Projects Go Bad 139
Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? 794
Microsoft To Offer Free Anti-Virus Software 448
McColo Briefly Returns, Hands Off Botnet Control 242
The Neurological Basis of Con Games 218
Secure OS Gets Highest NSA Rating, Goes Commercial 352
Physicist Admits Sending Space-Related Military Secrets To China 278
LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million 163
McColo Takedown, Vigilantes Or Neighborhood Watch? 194
NASA Draws On Open Source For Shuttle Bug-Tracking 83
"Heat Wheel" Could Lower Data Center Power Bills 97
$1M Reward Offered To Nab Data Breach Extortionist 134
Jaguar, World's Most Powerful Supercomputer 154
New Datacenter In Underground Lair 109
New Report On NSA Released Today 81
Distributed Compilation, a Programmer's Delight 60
Google Text Ads For Known Malware Sites 110
Microsoft Exploit Predictions Right 40% of Time 182
US Has More IPv6 Eyeballs Than Asia, Because of Apple 162
AMD Banks On Flood of Stream Apps 124
The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker 637
O'Reilly Now Competing With Sun Java Certificates 44
The Shady Business Practices of Classmates.com 275
Vein Patterns Could Replace Fingerprints 152
Microsoft's "Dead Cow" Patch Was 7 Years In the Making 203
Java Trial Support Coming In Linux Standard Base 126
Relentless Web Attack Hard To Kill 218
Googling Security 142
Washington Post Blog Shuts Down 75% of Online Spam 335
40-Gbps DDoS Attacks Worry Even Tier-1 ISPs 146
Good Freeware System Snapshot Tool For Windows? 219
AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File 440
U-Turn On UK ID Cards 143
DNS Inventor Tackles Flaw 101
(Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? 516
Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby 255
How to Search Today's Usenet For Programming Information? 230
OpenSolaris 2008.11 – Year of the Laptop? 223
Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs? 175
Bug In Android Passes Keystrokes To Root Shell 205
Telco Appeals Minnesota City's Fiber-Optic Win 162
Researchers Hijack Storm Worm To Track Profits 128
A Look At the CoreFlood Botnet 120
How Do You Justify the Existence of IT? 411
Old Malware Tricks Still Defeat Most AV Scanners 122
How Do I Get Open Source Programs Written For Me? 285
(Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? 412
The Real Story On WPA's Flaw 67
Raising Doubts About Australia's Broadband Upgrade Plan 98
Microsoft's Internal Advice About Patents 100
Researchers Crack WPA Wi-Fi Encryption 311
Cash Lifeline For Bletchley Park 63
Obama, McCain Campaigns Both Hacked, Files Compromised 255
Critical Vulnerability In Adobe Reader 160
Applied Security Visualization 45
Reuse Code Or Code It Yourself? 429
Scripting In Commodore BASIC For Windows & Linux 213
Low-Bandwidth, Truly Remote Management? 215
Researchers Calculate Capacity of a Steganographic Channel 114
Intel Core I7 Launched, Nehalem and X58 Tested 194
In UK, 12M Taxpayers Lost With USB Stick 258
D.I.Y. Home Security 377
How China Will Use Cyber Warfare To Leapfrog Foes 235
MBR Trojan Approaching the 3-Year Mark 165
Doom9 Researchers Break BD+ 345
Stealing Data With Obfuscated Code 101
HP Opens Up TouchSmart To Third-Party Developers 32
Morris Worm Turning 20 84
Now From Bruce Schneier, the Skein Hash Function 139
Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet 413
Paper Ballots Will Return In MD and VA 420
When Does Powering Down Servers Make Sense? 301
Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance 287
Looking At Changes In the Newest GCC 54
Resisting the PGP Whole Disk Encryption Craze 480
Google Adopts, Forks OpenID 1.0 316
ICANN Proposes New Way To Buy Top-Level Domains 198
The IDA Pro Book 85
Microsoft Joins the OpenID Foundation 142
Attack Code Found For Recent Windows Bug 184
The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web 87
Microsoft Pushes Windows To Battle Linux In Africa 248
Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Reporting it 547
Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS 419
Alarm Raised On Teenage Hackers 213
Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? 680
OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows 451
US Army Sees Twitter As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool" 320
PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist 523
Reliable, Free Anti-Virus Software? 586
Security Flaw In Android Web Browser 59
Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative 164
Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth? 450
Which Phone To Develop For? 344
Exchanging Pictures To Generate Passwords 123
Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch For File-Sharing Hole 348
Russia Mandates Free Software For Public Schools 271
Open-Source DRM Ready To Take On Big Guns 520
Can You Trust Anti-Virus Rankings? 258
A Look At Successful Game Mods 287
US's First Internet Votes To Be Cast This Friday 143
For 3 Years, Scammers Ran Truckless Trucking Company 244
Keeping Up With IT Developments In Education? 32
Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library 85
A Look At Google's Newest Data Center 75

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