Security Stories for 2006

HD DVD's AACS Protection Bypassed 161
Review of 12 Vulnerability Scanners 55
2007 in Security 50
The Numbers Stations Analyzed, Discussed 224
U.S. Gov't To Use Full Disk Encryption On All Computers 371
HD-DVD and Blu-Ray AACS DRM Cracked 432
Department of Defense Now Blocking HTML Email 262
Cyber Crime Hits Big Time This Year 97
Top Viruses, Worms and Malware in 2006 74
Vista Exploit Surfaces on Russian Hacker Site 103
Apple Closes iSight Security Hole 213
Small Businesses Worry About MS Anti-Phishing 291
Month of Apple Bugs Debuts in January 171
ISECOM's Top 10 Real Computer Crimes 155
Detecting Rootkits In GNU/Linux 142
The Dangers of Improper Cookie Use 191
100 Million Victims of Data Theft 115
E-Passport Cloned In Five Minutes 259
I, Nanobot — Bionanotechnology is Coming 107
Vista Zero-Day Exploit For Sale 233
How Do You Handle New MS Word Vulnerabilities? 157
One in 25 Search Results Risky 69
How Skype Punches Holes in Firewalls 215
ALSR in Vista Gets OEM Push 170
Third Microsoft Word Code Execution Exploit Posted 174
Homeland Security Director Defends Real ID 376
MySpace Users Have Stronger Passwords Than Corporate Employees 263
PHP Security Expert Resigns 386
Patch Tuesday — IE7 Clean 75
DIY Service Pack For Windows 2000/XP/2003 197
'Leak' Test of 21 Personal Firewalls 104
UCLA Hacked, 800,000 Identities Exposed 148
Market Research Company Secretly Installs Spyware 206
Activating Vista Enterprise Using a Spoofed Server 291
No Fix for Word Next 'Patch Tuesday' 80
Zero Day Exploit Found in Windows Media Player 177
DHS Passenger Scoring Almost Certainly Illegal 181
TSA Now Investigating Boarding Pass Hacker 270
Federal Panel [not NIST] Rejects Paper Trail For E-Voting 191
Would You Trust RFID-Enabled ATM Cards? 214
Microsoft Issues Zero-Day Attack Alert For Word 483
The Case for OpenID 229
Detecting Tailgaters With Lasers 1136
TiVo File Encryption Cracked 250
Another NASA Hacker Indicted 164
Vista Designed to Make Malware Easy 311
EveryDNS Under Botnet DDoS Attack 154
MySpace Phishing Attack Leads Users to Zango Adware 95
NIST Condemns Paperless Electronic Voting 201
Experts Say Ajax Not Inherently Insecure 82
U.S. Warns of Possible Cyber Biz Attack 179
Fighting Claims That Open Source Is Insecure? 84
Feds To Recommend Paper Trail for Electronic Votes 205
Vista Hackers Get Busy 215
Cracking the BlackBerry with a $100 Key 94
Possible Serious Security Flaw In ATMs 167
First-Person Account of a Social Engineering Attack 347
Apple Releases 31 Security Fixes 319
Charges Dropped In Fake Boarding Pass Case 135
Sydney Airport To Instate RFID Baggage Tags 82
Oracle Zero-Day Flaw Project Cancelled 61
Hackers Not Afraid of Being Caught 169
Community Comments To Security Absurdity Article 190
Defeating Virtual Keyboards and Phishing Banks 135
Spammers Learn To Outsource Their Captcha Needs 221
Wired Reports On Korea's First Hacker Con 40
British "Secure" Passports Cracked 305
Help Black Box Voting Examine ES&S Software 197
Code Execution Bug In Broadcom Wi-Fi Driver 157
"Month of Kernel Bugs" Project Head Interviewed 42
Detecting Video & Audio Tampering 39
First Responder Networks 5 Years After 9/11 189
Oracle Patch Day Becoming Irrelevant 76
OpenBSD 3.9 Released 130
Apache Now the Leader in SSL Servers? 160
Military Investigates Sale of Sensitive Data 136
A Searchable Virus Database? 44
Maryland Governor Wants Voting Paper Trail 111
UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows 598
Cellphone Could Crack RFID Tags 138
Privacy Concerns On Google's 30 Day Data Policy 154
Phishing Site Using Valid SSL Certificates 368
Government Cyber Storm Ends 124
Saying 'No' to an Executable Internet 306
Botnet Attack Shuts Down Hospital Network 360
Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus 496
New Secure IM Client from NTT Due this Year 61
Advertisers May Face Ridicule For Adware 166
Scaremongering over Spyware? 196
Danish, Western Websites Under Attack 1467
Microsoft Officially Announces Anti-Virus Product 399
Floating in the Two-Factor Authenticator Tsunami? 45
Another Look At Mozilla's BugFix Rate 174
Study Notes Decline in Internet Spyware 94
UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth? 520
Spyware Tunnels in on Winamp Flaw 176
Holograms Help Protect Super Bowl 287
NIST Standards for New Biometric ID Card Published 129
Operation 'Cyber Storm' Starts Tomorrow 157
Computer Virus Fells Russian Stock Exchange 133
Blackworm Dud Highlights Virus Naming Mess 108
Kama Sutra Worm Hits Softly 175
Symantec's Genesis to Usher in a New Age of Trust? 275
WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000 166
Kama Sutra Worm Could Make For A Bad Friday 317
Microsoft Won't Offer Patch Before Worm Strikes? 274
Nmap 4.00 Released 43
Boing Boing Threatened By Software Creator 351
LiveJournal XSS Security Challenge 66
Cross Site Cooking 125
No Anti-Virus in Vista 444
Another Setback for Biometric Passports 70
Mitnick on OSS 286
Clock Ticking for Nyxem Virus 72
Startup Prepares Cracker Attack Emulator 106
Installing Windows with Recent Updates? 223
Buy Vista or Else 539
Rootkits Head for Your BIOS 287
Stubborn Spyware Removal Advice? 223
Medical Data on 365,000 Patients Stolen 226
Google's Anti-Spyware Project 185
Ancient Flaws May Leave Mac OS X Vulnerable 388
Security Researcher Says Oracle Slow to Fix Flaw 91
New Software To Balance Privacy and Security? 82
Botnet Brain Pleads Guilty 137
Iris Scanning For New Jersey Grade School 149
When Data Goes Missing Will You Even Know? 327
Information Security Fundamentally Wrong? 35
OpenSSL Receives FIPS 140-2 Validation 46
Is Obsolescence Good Computer Security? 490
KDE Heap Overflow Vulnerability Found 233
Details of the LiveJournal Account Hacks 246
Getting Fingerprint Readers to Read Your Prints? 88
FBI Says Computer Crime Costs Billions Every Year 142
WMF Flaw not a Backdoor 226
20 Years of Computer Viruses 278
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Not Due Until 2007 334
The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy 382
Has Corporate Info Security Gotten Out of Hand? 466
Slashback: GPLv3, Firefly, iTunes 275
Safe Options for Surfing While on the Road? 54
BBC Writer Responds To Mac Security Critiques 306
Sony RootKit Still A Problem? 268
Secure Java Apps on Linux using MD5 Crypt 25
Mac users 'too smug' Over Security? 707
First Windows Vista Security Update Released 317
E-Passport System Test This Week 89
Windows Wireless Networking Flaw Identified 225
GSA Bidding Site Compromised By Flaw 43
Symantec Competing Unfairly Against Spybot? 243
Anti-Spyware Guidelines Get Final Version 104
MS Patches Go For Quality Over Quantity? 225
The Choice Between DRM and Security 292
Does Your Company Use a PKI Solution? 171
Rootkit-like Feature Found in Norton Systemworks 221
Microsoft Taking Longer to Fix Flaws 192
Instant-Messaging Attacks On the Rise 151
Future Trends of Malware 179
US Homeland Security to Support Open Source 186
Novell Open Sources AppArmor 14
Microsoft vs. Computer Security 439
Two New WMF Bugs Found 127
Cryptology Research for High School Student? 43
Oracle 'Worm' Exploit Modified 87
Are Hotlinked Images Now a Liability? 57
WINE Still Vulnerable to WMF Exploit 240
Insider Threat 156
Interview with Ilfak Guilfanov (WMF Patch Hero) 167
The Annual US-CERT FUD Festival 152
Microsoft to Patch WMF Exploit Early 306
Security Vendor McAfee to Pay $50 Million Fine 229
Linux/Unix Tops Charts for Vulnerabilities in 2005 438
Businesses Urged To Use Unofficial Windows Patch 374
Security Holes Found In RIM BlackBerry Service 89
Linux Netwosix Creator Discusses 2.0 Vision 72
New IM Worm Exploiting WMF Vulnerability 360