IT Stories for 2010

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Hack Demonstrated 89
Cheap GSM Eavesdropping a Reality 75
Google Patenting 'Exponential' Friend Spamming 64
One Tip Enough To Put Name On Terrorist Watch List 446
Android Trojan Found, Spreading From Chinese App Stores 277
The Significant Decline of Spam 263
Tales From the Tech Trenches 99
Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good 534
4chan Has Been DDOSed 710
Mozilla Posts File Containing Registered User Data 154
Auditors Question TSA's Tech Spending, Security Solutions 239
AMD Radeon HD 6950 Can Be Unlocked To HD 6970 191
Did Stuxnet Take Out 1,000 Centrifuges At Natanz? 189
Spammers Finally Under the Legal Gun? 204
What's the Oldest File You Can Restore? 498
UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication 162
Problems With Truncation On the Common Application 135
New IE Zero Day 305
Study Finds DDoS Attacks Threaten Human Rights 118
The Year In Downtime 32
Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters 441
Will 2011 Be the Year of Mobile Malware? 111
Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security 277
De Raadt Doubts Alleged Backdoors Made It Into OpenBSD 136
NX Compression Technology To Go Closed Source 286
Data Breach Could Test Massachusetts Law 73
Recording the Police 515
The Smartphone That Spies, and Other Surprises 132
Memo Details Gawker Security Strategy 76
D0z.me — the Evil URL Shortener 116
The DNSSEC Chicken & Egg Challenge 77
Database of Private SSL Keys Published 200
US Army Considers a Smartphone For Every Soldier 279
Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Released 175
Opera Goes To 11, With Extensions and Tab Stacks 296
Intel's Sandy Bridge Processor Has a Kill Switch 399
Spamhaus Under DDoS Over Wikileaks.info 295
The Clock Is Ticking On Encryption 228
Raising a Botnet In Captivity 60
Carrier Trick To Save IPv4 Could Help Spammers 124
Over 40% of New Mechanical Turk Jobs Involve Spam 56
Openwall Linux 3.0 — No SUIDs, Anti-Log-Spoofing 122
NSA Considers Its Networks Compromised 239
A Finnish-Chinese Connection For Stuxnet? 113
Chrome Throws Flash Into the Sandbox 109
The Case For Lousy Passwords 343
NSS Labs Browser Report Says IE Is the Best, Google Disagrees 205
Learning From Gawker's Failure 236
BSD Coder Denies Adding FBI Backdoor 239
FBI Alleged To Have Backdoored OpenBSD's IPSEC Stack 536
Hidden Backdoor Discovered On HP MSA2000 Arrays 197
Why Anonymous Can't Take Down Amazon.com 392
The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords 209
Sheriff's Online Database Leaks Info On Informants 185
Anonymous Now Attacking Corporate Fax Machines 410
Stunts, Idiocy, and Hero Hacks 208
Operation Payback and Hactivism 101 423
Amazon Says Hardware, Not Hackers, Caused Outage 128
Two Major Ad Networks Found Serving Malware 330
Has Progress Been Made In Fighting DDoS Attacks? 206
Gawker Source Code and Databases Compromised 207
When Computers Go Wrong 250
Feds To Adopt 'Cloud First' IT Policy 142
Backscatter X-Ray Machines Easily Fooled 342
Apple, Google Diss the DoD Over Mobile Security 150
'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Proponents Not So Anonymous 390
SHA-3 Finalist Candidates Known 194
Apple Quietly Drops iOS Jailbreak Detection API 164
IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail 347
Tobacco Virus Could Boost Li Batteries 161
Remote Exim Exploit In the Wild 90
DNSSEC Comes To .Net Zone Today 62
Iron-Eating Bug Is Gobbling Up the Titanic 221
RIP, SunSolve 100
Stuxnet Still Out of Control At Iran Nuclear Sites 361
WikiLeaks Defenders Threaten Amazon 703
MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks 715
Hi-Tech Nativity Security 110
Researchers Tracking Emerging 'Darkness' Botnet 85
A Nude Awakening — the TSA and Privacy 728
Digging Into the WikiLeaks Cables 810
Single Software Licence Shared 774,651 Times 446
With Better Sharing of Intel Comes Danger 287
PS3 With 3.50 Firmware Jailbroken Without Downgrade 195
Doorways Sneak To Non-Default Ports of Hacked Servers 63
Cybergang Compromises Every ATM In Russian City 74
Microsoft Builds JavaScript Malware Detection Tool 88
Researchers Bypass IE Protected Mode 91
Canon's Image Verification System Cracked 118
Schneier Recommends Nuclear-Style Cyberwar Hotlines, Treaties 123
Web Bugs the New Norm For Businesses? 108
Antivirus Firms Short-Changing Customers 205
A Third of World's Spam From One Russian Man 233
Ransomware Making a Comeback 202
AVG 2011 Update Causes Widespread Problems For 64-Bit Windows 318
The Golden Hour of Phishing Attacks 59
ProFTPD.org Compromised, Backdoor Distributed 152
Attack of the Trojan Printers 144
Aussie Government Gives PDF the Thumbs Down 179
GNU Savannah Site Compromised 99
Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You 273
DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing 919
Aussie Gov't Decides ISPs Aren't Responsible For Infected Computers 129
Iran Admits Stuxnet Affected Their Nuclear Program 211
Scammers Can Hide Fake URLs On the iPhone 68
Causing Terror On the Cheap 448
Chinese DNS Tampering a Real Threat To Outsiders 181
China's Politburo Behind Google Cyber-Attack? 142
Security Expert Warns of Android Browser Flaw 98
KDE 4.6 Beta 1 – a First Look 224
Australian Telstra Monopoly Dead 100
Computer Glitch Leaves Some Australians Without Cash 195
FedEx Misplaces Radioactive Rods 165
The Sensible Body Scan Alternative 354
Hacker Sends Out Fake Tsunami Warning On Twitter 100
Anxiety and IT? 347
A Peek At the National Opt-Out Day Numbers 297
New Windows Kernel Vulnerability Bypasses UAC 303
Homeland Security Drops Color-Coded Terror Alerts 183
Botnet Spammer Gets Just 18 Months For Being Odd 83
Computer Crashed New Orleans Real Estate Market 234
Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems 890
HTTPS Everywhere Gets Firesheep Protection 77
Opera 11 Beta Released, With Extensions Support 142
When Your Company Remote-Wipes Your Personal Phone 446
Rootkit In a Network Card Demonstrated 112
Crooks Hack Music Players For ATM Skimmers 82
SSL Certificates For Intranet Sites? 286
Former Employee Stole Ford Secrets Worth $50 Million 236
Malaysian Indicted After Hacking Federal Reserve 132
Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable 681
How the 'Tech Worker Visa' Is Remaking IT In America 436
Best IT-infrastructure For a Small Company? 600
The US-Soviet Cyber Cold War 117
Estonian Economist Suggests Abandoning Cash 454
Sculptor Gives a Hint For CIA's Kryptos 151
Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized 484
ARM Readies Cores For 64-Bit Computing 222
Lawsuit Shows Dell Hid Extent of Computer Flaws 272
Claims About China's April Internet Hijack Are Overblown 78
Adobe Launches Sandboxed Reader X 201
New Bill Would Put DHS In Charge of 'Critical' Private Networks 193
Stuxnet Virus Now Biggest Threat To Industry 254
50 ISPs Harbor Half of All Infected Machines 140
Want an IT Job? Add 'Cloud' To Your Buzzword List 187
TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old 1135
For 18 Minutes, 15% of the Internet Routed Through China 247
New Rootkit Bypasses Windows Code-Signing Security 160
Cracking Passwords With Amazon EC2 GPU Instances 217
Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment 334
Free-Form Linguistic Input In Mathematica 8 84
State-Sponsored CyberAttacks Expected To Rise 33
Security Strategy: From Requirements To Reality 64
Web-Users Fall For Fake Anti-Virus Scams 272
Windows Cluster Hits a Petaflop, But Linux Retains Top-5 Spot 229
Ears Might Be Better Than Fingerprints For ID 135
NSA Adds Kahn Collection To Cryptologic Museum 34
Vint Cerf Calls For IPv6 Incentives In UK 164
Android Holes Allow Secret Installation of Apps 132
Researchers Take Down Koobface Servers 35
Fedora Project Drops SQLNinja 'Hacker' Tool 159
The Great Cyberheist 57
Google Says No More Cash For Trash Web Bugs 88
Hackers Blamed For MessageLabs Spam Blunder 44
Firefox 4 Regains Speed Mojo With No. 2 Placing 98
Can Windows, OS X and Fedora All Work Together? 375
FCC Investigating Google Street View Wi-Fi Data Collection 122
How Often Should You Change Your Password? 233
Security App For the New German Personal ID Hacked 93
UK Terror Chief Blocked From Boarding Aircraft 237
Research Inches Toward Processor-Specific Malware 155
Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 228
NSA Says Its Secure Dev Methods Are Publicly Known 114
Targeted Attacks Focus On Economic Cyberterrorism 73
Search Engine Optimization Poisoning Way Up In '10 175
Nevercookie Eats Evercookies 91
Sophos Researcher Suggests Password 'Free' to Spur Wi-Fi Encryption 332
Sophos Free A-V For Mac May Kill Time Machine Backups 133
Man Loses Millions In Bizarre Virus-Protection Scam 366
Toy Robots Can Guard Your Home 151
Rackspace vs. Amazon — the Cloud Wars 114
Bethesda Criticized Over Buggy Releases 397
Malicious Websites Can Initiate Skype Calls On iOS 177
IE Flaw Exploit In Hacker Kit 'Raises the Stakes' 96
Royal Navy Website Hacked, Passwords Revealed 114
Firesheep Countermeasure Tool BlackSheep 122
US Wants Upper Hand In Battling High-Tech Bad Guys 81
Obama Says Offshoring Fears Are Unwarranted 763
Former Student Gets 30 Months For Political DDoS Attacks 486
Evaluating Or Testing Utility SCADA Security? 227
Europe Simulates Total Cyber War 80
Major Security Holes Found In Mobile Bank Apps 107
MS Adds Security Suite To Update Service, Antivirus Rival Objects 324
EPIC Files Lawsuit To Suspend Airport Body Scanner Use 559
Researcher To Release Web-Based Android Attack 136
Swedes Show Intel Sandy Bridge Running BIOS-Successor UEFI 216
FTC Taps Ed Felten As First Chief Technologist 76
Massive DDoS Cuts Myanmar Off From Net 149
Zeus Attackers Turned the Tables On Researchers 119
5 Years of Linux Kernel Releases Benchmarked 52
Nuclear Bunker Houses World's Toughest Server Farm 152
Net Neutrality Supporters Hammered In Elections 402
Adobe To Push Emergency Fix For Flash Bug 78
A Decade of Agile Programming — Has It Delivered? 395
Serious Security Bugs Found In Android Kernel 230
Firesheep Author Reflects On Wild Week 229
OpenBSD 4.8 Released 176
Google Broadens Bug Bounties To Include Web App Security 50
UK Police To Get Facebook Lessons 63
TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use 642
New VP8 Codec SDK Release Improves Performance 168
How Not To Design a Protocol 186
Early Kinect Games Kill Buyers' Access To Xbox Live 111
Herding Firesheep In NYC — Do Users Care? 200
Hiding Backdoors In Hardware 206
Separating Cyber-Warfare Fact From Fantasy 111
Inside Google's Anti-Malware Operation 105
Adobe Warns of Critical Flash Bug, Already Being Exploited 244
For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 238
Aussie Kids Foil Finger Scanner With Gummi Bears 303
British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests 335
Google Now Second-Largest ISP 71
Most Americans Support an Internet Kill Switch 398
How To Protect Against Firesheep Attacks 208
Bredolab Botnet Taken Down 187
Riskiest Web Domains To Visit 106
Rise of the Small Botnet 61
Iranian Cyber Army Moves Into Botnet Renting 63
New Programming Language Weaves Security Into Code 216
Inside a Full-Body-Scanning X-Ray Van 313
Firefox Extension Makes Social-Network ID Spoofing Trivial 185
LSE Breaks World Record In Trade Speed With Linux 452
Amazon To Allow Book Lending On the Kindle 280
iPhone Jailbreak Modified Into CC Sniffing Malware 120
Asterisk 1.8 Released With Support For Google Voice 83
10 Oddly Useful Specialty Web Browsers 72
Facebook Ads Could 'Out' Gay Users 196
Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls 107
Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office? 222
RDS Protocol Bug Creates a Linux Kernel Hole, Now Fixed 89
Bicycle Thief Barred From Using Encryption 449
Early Review of 11" Macbook Air 348
Linux 2.6.36 Released 238
Red Hat CEO Says Software Vendor Model Is Broken 223
Google Rolls Out Chrome 7 292
Un-killable 'Evercookie' Killed ... Sometimes 186
Microsoft Announces Web-Based Office365 210
Spammers 'Gearing Up' Botnets For Holiday Rush 30
Hacker Business Models 96
Gene Simmons Threatens Anonymous Again and Gets DDoS'd 403

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