Security Stories for 2007

The Rising Barcode Security Threat 125
Data Theft Soars to Unprecedented Levels 116
American Security Firms Collaborate on Chinese Olympics 68
TSA Limits Lithium Batteries on Airplanes 595
eBay vs. Romania's Online Scammers 162
Australia Scraps National ID Plan 149
Anti-Virus Bug Briefly Identified Windows Explorer as Malware 131
Thousands of Adult Website Accounts Compromised 167
Inside a Modern Malware Distribution System 135
Mastering POSIX File Capabilities 80
Flash Vulnerabilities Affect Thousands of Sites 214
IRS Data Security Still a Concern 54
Vulnerability Numerology - Defective by Design? 103
Diebold Election Results Released By AZ Judge 134
'Extreme Security' Web Browsing 267
Anti-Virus Effectiveness Down from Last Year 201
Exploit Found to Brick Most HP and Compaq Laptops 294
Turn in a Software Pirate to Collect $500 293
3.2 Billion Dollars Lost to Phishing in 2007 112
Penetration Testing TV Series Coming 209
SquirrelMail Repository Poisoned 182
More Mac Vulnerabilities Than Windows In 2007? 329
New Vista Random Numbers to Include NSA Backdoor? 269
A Legal Analysis of the Sony BMG Rootkit Debacle 227
A Little .Mac Security Flaw 328
Encryption Passphrase Protected by the 5th Amendment 537
Ohio Study Confirms Voting Systems Vulnerabilities 91
The 'Malware Economy' Evolves 100
FTC Says Payment Processor Took Millions 120
Ohio Plans To Encrypt After Data Breach 237
Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns 132
US Military 'Hacked' by Emails 141
IT Pro Admits Stealing 8.4M Consumer Records 108
Ron Paul Spam Traced to Reactor Botnet 506
Blast-Proof Fabric Resists Multiple Explosions 250
Most In US Have False Sense of Online Security 161
California Testers Find Flaws In Voting Machines 167
Privacy Breach In Canadian Passport Application Site 197
Freakonomics Q&A With Bruce Schneier 147
Wireless Keyboard "Encryption" Cracked 232
Security in Ten Years 154
Governments Prepare for Cyber Cold War 105
Firefox Security Head Says Microsoft Obscures OS Holes 214
MD5 Proven Ineffective for App Signatures 117
Google Wants You to Report Malware 135
Google's Gdrive Raises Instant Privacy Concerns 197
Government-Sponsored Cyberattacks on the Rise 96
NZ Teen Arrested as 'Spybot Mastermind' 113
FBI's Bot Roast II Sees Great Success 129
Google Purges Thousands of Malware Sites 133
PlayStation 3 'Hacker's Paradise', Sales Up 101
Firefox Susceptible To QuickTime Security Flaw 231
Anonymity of Netflix Prize Dataset Broken 164
Protecting IM From Big Brother 185
MPAA College Toolkit Raises Privacy, Security Concerns 188
Expert Unveils 'Scary' VoIP Hack 103
Skype Encryption Stumps German Police 289
Microsoft Admits XP Has Same Bug As Win2K 161
UK Music Retailers Beg, Drop the DRM 219
Spying On Tor 198
DNS Server Survey Reveals Mixed Security Picture 109
Dan Geer On Trusting PCs In Botnets 301
The Evolving Face of Credit Card Scams 232
Using Google To Crack MD5 Passwords 232
UK Government Loses 15 Million Private Records 339
Multiple FLAC Vulnerabilities Affect Every OS 360
The Fine Line Between Security and Usability 195
Boing Boing Founder Warns of "Internet AIDS" 154
Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC 268
Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged 199
Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack 236
Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government 303
Shake a Secure Bluetooth Connection 107
WWII Colossus Codecracker Outdone by a German 182
Apple Fixes 'Misleading' Leopard Firewall Settings 264
New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor 322
World of Warcraft's Brand New Rootkit 576
Police swoop on 'Hacker of the Year' 223
Colossus Cracks Again 88
First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys 645
Public Invited to Try Their Luck Against Old Cipher Tech 95
Meshnet Digital Armor To Protect Tanks 164
Russian Hacker Gang Vanishes Again 64
Loophole in Windows Random Number Generator 305
Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan 344
Hidden Music Claimed In Da Vinci Painting 220
US Bot Herder Admits Infecting 250K Machines 206
Russian Phishers Moving to China? 67
NIST Opens Competition for a New Hash Algorithm 187
AntiPiracy Macrovision Bug is Actually Six Years Old 177
The World's Biggest Botnets 243
Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK 432
Highly Targeted Phishing From Salesforce.com Leak 72
Qmail At 10 Years — Reflections On Security 304
Graffiti as Password - Secure and Memorable 76
Datacenter Robbed for the Fourth Time in Two Years 437
Cross-Selling Online Scams and Security Issues 101
Picture Passwords More Secure than Text 261
Fake Codec is Mac OS X Trojan 473
Transform Cellphones Into a CCTV Swarm 106
Schneier On the War On the Unexpected 405
Germany Seeks Expansion of Computer Spying 177
One-Third of Employees Violate Company IT Policies 320
Claim of a Blu-ray BD+ Crack 307
OS X Leopard Firewall Flawed 300
AT&T Invents Surveillance Programming Language 119
The Khaki Bandit Strikes At IT - 130 Stolen Laptops 249
AntiVirus Products Fail to Find Simple IE Malware 190
Running the Numbers on a US Pandemic 257
Virtualization Decreases Security 340
Humans Not Evolved for IT Security 302
Storm Worm Strikes Back at Security Pros 371
Identity Thieves Not Big On Technology 94
A Closer Look At Apple Leopard Security 267
FTC To Take a Second Look at P2P 132
New Password Recovery Technique Uses CPU and GPU Together 264
EVE Online Endures Downtime Due to Breached Security 69
'I Was a Hacker for the MPAA' 385
Famous Criminal Opines that Technology Breeds Crime 243
Storm Worm Being Reduced to a Squall 183
Evidence of Steganography in Real Criminal Cases 231
Tracking Online Cheaters in Poker 150
RealPlayer Zero-Day Flaw Under Attack 150
The Future of Trusted Linux Computing 158
Unofficial Patch For Windows URI Hole 85
Apple Adds Memory Randomization To Leopard 311
Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid 754
TSA to Contractors - Encrypt Your Laptops 132
Spam Hits 95% of All Email 270
Attacking Criminal Networks On the Internet 109
Xerox's 'Intelligent Redaction' Scanners 154
Profile of the Russian Business Network 180
Florida Literally Scraps Touch-Screen Voting 177
EA Denies DRM Problems With Sims 2 188
Quantum Crypto in the Real World 91
Microsoft Flip-Flops On URI Protocol Handing Flaw 126
Ohio Official Docked Vacation Time For Stolen Tape 218
Businesses Spend 20% of IT Budgets on Security 141
Adobe Confirms Unpatched PDF Backdoor 170
Ticketmaster Claims Hacking Over Ticket Resale Site 317
Most Users Think They Have AntiVirus Protection, While Only Half Do 294
Retailers Fighting To No Longer Store Credit Data 136
DHS Injects Itself With DDoS 136
Undocumented Bypass in PGP Whole Disk Encryption 316
Xen Security Issue Patched 41
Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov 195
Chinese Security Site Under New Kind of Attack 73
Online Videos May Conduct Viruses 195
UK Government Can Demand You Hand Over Encryption Keys 426
Carnegie Mellon CAPTCHA Digitization Project Now Underway 119
VM-Based Rootkits Proved Easily Detectable 128
Torvalds On Pluggable Security Models 216
Microsoft's Larry Osterman On Threat Modeling 113
Dutch Commission Deals Blow To Electronic Voting 210
Cyber Crime A Distant #3 Priority for FBI 154
When Not to Use chroot 407
Despite AOL's Claim, AIM Worm Hole Still Wide Open 75
Gmail Vulnerability May Expose User Information 94
Chicago Developing 'Suspicious Behavior' Monitoring System 294
Staged Hack Causes Generator to Self-Destruct 258
Convicted VoIP Hacker Robert Moore Speaks 183
Ebay Hacked, User Info Posted 242
Chinese Worm Creator Gets High-Paying Job Offer In Prison 148
Unisys Investigated For Covering Up Cyber-Attacks 114
GoogHOle Exploits GMail, Picasa and 200K Other Sites 167
FBI Boosts Servers For Faster Criminal Searches 90
Zero-day Exploit in PDF With Adobe Reader 188
MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport 1547
10,000 Cameras Ineffective At Deterring Crime 414
Australia Cracked US Combat Aircraft Codes 280
TransUnion to Offer Credit Freezes Nationwide 174
Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun 818
Hacker Publishes Notorious Apple Wi-Fi Attack 114
Internet Security Moving Toward 'White List' 316
Cybercrime Now Worth $105 Billion, Bypasses Drug Trade 177
Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? 572
CastleCops.com Hit With Reputation-Based Attacks 79
MIT Launching Kerberos Consortium 62
Workers Cause More Problems Than Viruses 191
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All 405
German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server 428
Attacking Multicore CPUs 167
Wii Uses Elliptic Curve Cryptography For Saves 183
Stealthy Windows Update Raises Serious Concerns 362
Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked 427
Owning a Wireless Camera, Its User and Its Network 59
Boot Sector Virus Shipped on German Laptops 79
Cisco Confirms Regex Flaw in IOS 61
Ameritrade Security Audit Finds Privacy-Busting Back Door 111
Time Running Out for Public Key Encryption 300
EFF Lands a Blow On DirecTV 100
When Ethics and IT Collide 414
Skype Worm Infects Windows PCs 127
Tor Used To Collect Embassy Email Passwords 99
Ophcrack Says Your Password Is Insecure 249
Ultra-low-cost True Randomness 201
Storm Worm Evolves To Use Tor 182
Forensic Computer Targets Digital Crime 212
Anti-Scammers Become Storm Botnet Victims 207
Ohio Court Admits Lie Detector Tests As Evidence 198
Protecting Final Fantasy XI From the Gil-Sellers 116
Storm Worm More Powerful Than Top Supercomputers 390
Indictment Highlights File-Sharing Risks 86
Comcast Forging Packets To Filter Torrents 413
Chinese Military Hacked Into Pentagon 405
WGA Meltdown Blamed On Human Error 250
Virtual Earth Exposes Nuclear Sub's Secret 355
Nmap From an Ethical Hacker's Point of View 115
FBI Targets Online Auction Sites' Criminal Element 57
Hacked Bank of India Site Labeled Trustworthy 54
Monster.com Malware Tags Another Site 50
Kaspersky Wins Important Ruling for the Anti-Malware Industry 96
Entering Passwords Through Eye Movement 73
How Do I Secure An IP, While Leaving Options Open? 281
Swede Hacks Embassy Account Information From Around the World 92
Bugging Catches Up To SIP Phones 70
Another Sony Rootkit? 317
Storm Botnet Is Behind Two New Attacks 226
BioShock Installs a Rootkit 529
Forensics On a Cracked Linux Server 219
Interview with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell 112
SCADA Systems a Target for Hackers? 189
Breaking a Car's Cipher 253
Monster.com Attacked, User Data Stolen 196
158 Million Records Exposed (And Counting) 106
Did Russian Hackers Crash Skype? 108
Forbes 400 Targeted by ID Thieves 51
TSA's "Behavior Detection Officers" 281
Colleges Wrestle With Thumb Drives 127
Fox Hacks Fark 188
US School Curriculum to Include Online Safety? 137
TJX Security Breach Described 104
Contractor Folds After Causing Breaches 274
New URI Browser Flaws Worse Than First Thought 149
BBC's iPlayer's Prospects Looking Bleak 369
Full-Disclosure Wins Again 122
Ubuntu Servers Hacked 330
Verizon vs. the Needham Fire Department 195
Server with Top-Secret Data Stolen 142
Security Threat In the New Wiretapping Law 167
Strict German Computer Crime Law Now in Effect 226
United Nations vs SQL Injections 144
Hardening Linux 204
DHS Plans Changes in Air Passenger Screening 154
Buffer Overflow Found in RFID Passport Readers 96
ATI Driver Flaw Exposes Vista Kernel to Attackers 248
Music DRM in Critical Condition? 377
Many Antivirus Tools Fail in LinuxWorld Test 234
Cambridge Researcher Breaks OpenBSD Systrace 194
Storm Worm Rising 218

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