IT Stories for 2013

The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech 96
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 Biggest Tech Mishap of 2013? 162
US Requirement For Software Dev Certification Raises Questions 228
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
Is a Super-Sized iPad the Future of Education? 234
Not All Bugs Are Random 165
Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze 139
Snapchat Users' Phone Numbers Exposed To Hackers 69
Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison 233
How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes 60
Website Checkout Glitches: Two Very Different Corporate Responses 303
GNU Octave Gets a GUI 166
Australian Dept. Store Chain's Website Crashes and Can't Get Back Up 156
Encrypted PIN Data Taken In Target Breach 213
Millions of Dogecoin Stolen Over Christmas 132
Tesla Updates Model S Software As a Precaution Against Unsafe Charging 148
Whatever Happened To Sanford "Spamford" Wallace? 45
Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target? 68
How Healthcare.gov Changed the Software Testing Conversation 118
A Flood of Fawning Reviews For Apple's Latest 501
F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen Cancels RSA Talk In Protest 248
Researchers Connect 91% of Numbers With Names In Metadata Probe 84
Percentage of Self-Employed IT Workers Increasing 138
RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money 291
Privacy Advocate Jacob Appelbaum Reports Break-In Of Berlin Apartment 194
Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP 829
Obamacare and Middle-Wheel-Wheelbarrows 199
Ask Slashdot: Can Commercial Hardware Routers Be Trusted? 213
Big Buck Bunny In 4K, 60 Fps and 3D-stereo 102
Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA 464
Microsoft Security Essentials Misses 39% of Malware 149
Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? 308
DHS Turns To Unpaid Interns For Nation's Cyber Security 174
Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use? 159
Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire 691
Target Has Major Credit Card Breach 191
How a MacBook Camera Can Spy Without Lighting Up 371
Scientists Extract RSA Key From GnuPG Using Sound of CPU 264
Apple Pushes Developers To iOS 7 336
Academics Should Not Remain Silent On Government Hacking 135
Massive Android Mobile Botnet Hijacking SMS Data 117
Healthcare IT's Achilles' Heel: Sensors 84
Fedora 20 Released 147
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
NSA Able To Crack A5/1 Cellphone Crypto 122
Safari Stores Previous Browsing Session Data Unencrypted 135
Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd 191
Google Fixes Credit Card Security Hole, But Snubs Discoverer 127
Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' 275
Coolant Glitch Forces Partial Space Station Shutdown 49
Switzerland Wants To Become the World's Data Vault 131
FreeBSD Developers Will Not Trust Chip-Based Encryption 178
OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein 140
Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters 151
NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking 174
Ask Slashdot: Practical Bitrot Detection For Backups? 321
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
How a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Works 174
DARPA Makes Finding Software Flaws Fun 46
About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors 157
Europol, Microsoft Target 2-Million Strong ZeroAccess Click Fraud Botnet 44
FSF Responds To Microsoft's Privacy and Encryption Announcement 174
Australia's $44B Broadband Network May Settle For Fiber Near the Home 229
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
Ask Slashdot: How Do I Convince Management To Hire More IT Staff? 383
How To Hijack a Drone For $400 In Less Than an Hour 161
How Much Is Oracle To Blame For Healthcare IT Woes? 275
Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? 250
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
Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? 629
Ask Slashdot: What Review Sites Do You Consult For IT Equipment? 129
Intelligence Officials Fear Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache 381
Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards 196
Jury Finds Newegg Infringed Patent, Owes $2.3 Million 324
23% of IT Workers Spend Thanksgiving With Coworkers 111
A Co-processor No More, Intel's Xeon Phi Will Be Its Own CPU As Well 53
Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night 424
Researchers Build Covert Acoustical Mesh Networks In Air 107
San Quentin Inmates Learn Technology From Silicon Valley Pros 109
Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto 172
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? 497
Tapping Data From Radio-Controlled Bus Stop Displays 75
Twitter Implements Forward Secrecy For Connections 38
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
Intel's 128MB L4 Cache May Be Coming To Broadwell and Other Future CPUs 110
Cloud Storage Comparison: Benchmarking From Afar 49
Failed Software Upgrade Halts Transit Service 125
Tor Now Comes In a Box 150
Building an IT Infrastructure Today vs. 10 Years Ago 93
Users Identified Through Typing, Mouse Movements 149
Microsoft Certifications For High School Credits In Australia 126
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
Google Extends Its Patch Reward Program To Include Android 33
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
GCC 4.9 Coming With Big New Features 181
Ars Checks Out CyanogenMod's New Installer 143
Skydiving Accident Leaves Security Guru Cedric 'Sid' Blancher Dead At 37 332
Blue Light of Death Plagues PlayStation 4 309
How Big Companies Can Hamper the Surveillance Infrastructure 153
FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous 156
Google Patenting Less Noble Use of Project Loon Tech 87
Linux 3.13 Kernel To Bring Major Feature Improvements 190
NSA Wants To Reveal Its Secrets To Prevent Snowden From Revealing Them First 216
TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance 337
Sears To Convert Old Auto Centers Into National Chain of Data Centers 167
P2P Data Not Private, But It Could Be 59
Google Halts Sales of HP's USB-Charging Chromebook 11 Over Overheating 57
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
AMD Confirms Kaveri APU Is a 512-GPU Core Integrated Processor 130
The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement 208
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
Apple Developing Curve Screen iPhones and Improved Sensors 243
New Zealand's Hackable Transport Card Grants Free Bus Rides 96
Bitcoin (Probably) Isn't Broken 78
Wikimedia Launches Beta Program To Test Upcoming Features 25
Oracle Kills Commercial Support For GlassFish: Was It Inevitable? 125
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
Ask Slashdot: Tools For Managing Multiple Serial Console Servers? 104
Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire 104
Security Breach Forces Bitcoin Bank Inputs.io To Halt Operations 285
Microsoft and Facebook Launch Internet Bug Bounty Program 57
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
Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? 599
How Elon Musk Approaches IT At Tesla 231
New Framework For Programming Unreliable Chips 128
Snowden Publishes "A Manifesto For the Truth" 398
Linux 3.12 Released, Linus Proposes Bug Fix-Only 4.0 274
Microsoft Admits Windows 8.1 Update May Bork Your Mouse, Promises a Fix 326
Intel Open-Sources Broadwell GPU Driver & Indicates Major Silicon Changes 103
Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor? 285
RAF Pilots Blinded At 1000 Mph By Helmet Technical Glitch 154
Shutdown Illustrates How Fast US Gov't Can Update Its Websites 77
Ask Slashdot: Which Encrypted Cloud Storage Provider? 200
HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? 400
GCHQ, European Spy Agencies Cooperate On Surveillance 145
CyanogenMod 10.2 M1 Released 65
Ask Slashdot: Easy, Open Source Desktop-Sharing Software? 116
OpenBSD 5.4 Released 102
'Morris Worm' Turns 25: Watch How TV Covered It Then 51
Dark Wallet Will Make Bitcoin Accessible For All — Except the Feds 206
Airgap-Jumping Malware May Use Ultrasonic Networking To Communicate 265
Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov 404
The Mile Markers of Moore's Law Are Meaningless 156
GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell 291
Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound 245
Android KitKat Released 358
Google Chrome Is Getting Automatic Blocking of Malicious Downloads 138
Pen Testers Break Into Gov't Agency With Fake Social Media ID 109
Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support 328
Silent Circle, Lavabit Unite For 'Dark Mail' Encrypted Email Project 195
Phone Calls More Dangerous Than Malware To Companies 82
Google Nexus 5 Posts Best Gaming Benchmark Among Android Smartphones 78
The Case Against Gmail 435
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
Infosys Fined $35M For Illegally Bringing Programmers Into US On Visitor Visas 201
Adobe Breach Compromised Over 38 Million Users, Photoshop Source Code 145
Firefox 25 Arrives With Web Audio API Support, Guest Browsing On Android 144
A Year After Sandy, Do You Approach Disaster Differently? 230
Apple Blocks Lawrence Lessig's Comment On iOS 7 Wi-Fi Glitch 326
Chrome Will End XP Support in 2015; Firefox Has No Plans To Stop 257
CAPTCHA Busted? Company Claims To Have Broken Protection System 141
Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website? 786
GCC 4.9 To See Significant Upgrades In 2014 191
Mac OS 10.9's Mail App — Infinity Times Your Spam 158
ACLU: Lavabit Was 'Fatally Undermined' By Demands For Encryption Keys 230
Ten Steps You Can Take Against Internet Surveillance 234
Do Is Done 51
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
Jeffrey Zients Appointed To Fix Healthcare.gov 250
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
Torvalds: Free OS X Is No Threat To Linux 314
First New Top-Level Domains Added To the Root Zone 106
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
How To Lose $172,222 a Second For 45 Minutes 327
OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review 222
To Beat Spam Filters, Look Like A Spammer? 143
Ask Slashdot: Can Bruce Schneier Be Trusted? 330
Simple Bug Exposed Verizon Users' SMS Histories 60
CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA 361
A Live Map of Ongoing DDoS Attacks 46
Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees 655
Experian Sold Social Security Numbers To ID Theft Service 390
IE 11 Breaks Rendering For Google Products, and Outlook Too 231
Forrester Research Shows Steep Decline in Free Office Suite Stats 337
Building an Opt-In Society 182
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
Wireshark Switches To Qt 79
Facebook 'Stalker' Tool Uses Graph Search For Data Mining 38

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