Security Stories for 2008

400,000 PCs Infected With Fake "Antivirus 2009" 353
The 2008 Malware Challenge 29
CCC Create a Rogue CA Certificate 300
CCC Hackers Break DECT Telephones' Security 116
FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge 222
Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware 224
Using Lasers To Generate Random Numbers Faster 149
CastleCops Anti-Malware Site Closes Down 68
How Do You Monitor Documents? 237
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
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
The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning 327
NIST Announces Round 1 Candidates For SHA-3 Competition 125
Hacked Business Owner Stuck With $52k Phone Bill 300
Study Finds Hundreds of Stolen Data Dumps 58
Microsoft Rushes Internet Explorer Patch 376
IRS Doesn't Check Cyberaudit Logs 78
Data Breach Notices Show Tip of the Iceberg 50
Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability 455
The Year of 2008 In Cybercrime 47
Safari and Chrome: Tied For the Worst Password Manager 218
Huge iPhone Cut-and-Paste Tool Security Flaw 85
McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry PDAs 165
BD+ Successfully Resealed 443
Ask Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin About US Cybersecurity Plans 92
Ericsson and Intel Offer Remote Notebook Lockdown 105
UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs 545
Oops! Missed One Fix — Windows Attacks Under Way 292
Botnets As "eWMDs" 172
DNSSEC Advances in gTLDs; Bernstein Intros DNSCurve 179
Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security 459
21 Million German Bank Accounts For Sale 302
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
FBI Vaguely Warns of Asterisk Vishing Vulnerability 57
Automated Scripts Overrun eBay Holiday Contest 182
Online Billpay Provider Loses Control of Domains 232
Against Unknown Viruses, Avira AntiVir the Winner For Now 170
'Greasemonkey' Malware Targets Firefox 370
Who Protects the Internet? 177
Apple Says Macs Are Safe, No Antivirus Needed 449
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
A 1941 Paper-and-Pencil Cipher 75
Significant Russian Attack On US Military Networks 270
Estonian ISP Shuts Srizbi Back Down, For Now 237
Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On 205
Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki 160
Experts Tell Feds To Sign the DNS Root ASAP 147
Symantec Reports Spate of Attacks Via Recent Windows Flaw 56
Lenovo Service Disables Laptops With a Text Message 257
Zimbra Desktop Vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack 49
Police Cars To Transmit Real-Time Video 149
Chinese Hacking of American Military Networks On the Rise 205
Microsoft Blames Add-Ons For Browser Woes 307
Worm Attack Prompts DoD To Ban Use of External Media 295
Kaminsky Bug Options Include "Do Nothing," Says IETF 134
London's Oystercard Gets New Contract, But Same Suppliers 143
Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA's "Behavior Detection" 412
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
McColo Takedown, Vigilantes Or Neighborhood Watch? 194
$1M Reward Offered To Nab Data Breach Extortionist 134
New Datacenter In Underground Lair 109
New Report On NSA Released Today 81
Google Text Ads For Known Malware Sites 110
Microsoft Exploit Predictions Right 40% of Time 182
The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker 637
Vein Patterns Could Replace Fingerprints 152
Microsoft's "Dead Cow" Patch Was 7 Years In the Making 203
Relentless Web Attack Hard To Kill 218
Googling Security 142
40-Gbps DDoS Attacks Worry Even Tier-1 ISPs 146
U-Turn On UK ID Cards 143
DNS Inventor Tackles Flaw 101
Researchers Hijack Storm Worm To Track Profits 128
A Look At the CoreFlood Botnet 120
Old Malware Tricks Still Defeat Most AV Scanners 122
The Real Story On WPA's Flaw 67
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
Researchers Calculate Capacity of a Steganographic Channel 114
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
Stealing Data With Obfuscated Code 101
Morris Worm Turning 20 84
Now From Bruce Schneier, the Skein Hash Function 139
Paper Ballots Will Return In MD and VA 420
Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance 287
Resisting the PGP Whole Disk Encryption Craze 480
The IDA Pro Book 85
Attack Code Found For Recent Windows Bug 184
Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Reporting it 547
Alarm Raised On Teenage Hackers 213
US Army Sees Twitter As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool" 320
Reliable, Free Anti-Virus Software? 586
Security Flaw In Android Web Browser 59
Exchanging Pictures To Generate Passwords 123
Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch For File-Sharing Hole 348
Open-Source DRM Ready To Take On Big Guns 520
Can You Trust Anti-Virus Rankings? 258
US's First Internet Votes To Be Cast This Friday 143
For 3 Years, Scammers Ran Truckless Trucking Company 244
Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting Machine Security 200
Soaring, Cryptography, and Nuclear Weapons 303
Schneier on Security 204
Compromising Wired Keyboards 277
F-Secure Calls For "Internetpol" To Fight Crimeware 114
TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property 655
Al-Qaeda Web Sites Go Offline 284
Schneier, Journalist Poke Holes In TSA Policies 296
IRS Rolls Out Risky Tax Processing Systems 66
New State Laws Could Make Encryption Widespread 155
FBI Says Dark Market Sting Netted 56 Arrests 130
Schneier Calls Quantum Cryptography Impressive But Pointless 233
FBI Warns of Sweeping Global Threat To US Cybersecurity 134
UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense 708
Now Even Photo CAPTCHAs Have Been Cracked 340
Yahoo Hacker 'Mafiaboy' Eight Years On 183
Elcomsoft Claims WPA/WPA2 Cracking Breakthrough 349
Huge Credit Fraud Ring Sends Europeans' Data To Pakistan 166
British MoD Stunned By Massive Data Loss 166
Asus Ships Eee PCs With Malware 124
Verizon Exposes the Wrong 1,200 Email Addresses 94
World Bank Under Cybersiege In "Unprecedented Crisis" 377
Government Begins Securing Root Zone File 198
First Secure Quantum Crypto Network Up and Running 102
US Financial Quagmire Bringing Out the Scammers 272
Fixes Released (and More Promised) For "Clickjacking" Exploits 70
Tapping the IPhone, Courtesy of Yahoo! 27
Recovering Blurred Text Using Photoshop and JavaScript 157
DMCA Exemption Time 151
Google's Obfuscated TCP 392
Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well 163
Two Europeans Indicted In US For 2003 DDOS Attacks 93
Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced 151
Google's Obfuscated TCP 12
Encrypted Images Vulnerable To New Attack 155
Report Says China Will Demand Source Code 305
Skype Messages Monitored In China 223
Now Google's CAPTCHA Is Broken 408
Schneier On Scareware Vendor Lawsuits 148
Hackers Clone Elvis' Passport 164
Credit Card Security Standard Issued 98
Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA 303
Vint Cerf Says It's Every Machine For Itself 82
New Denial-of-Service Attack Is a Killer 341
"Back Door" Cheating Scandal Rocks Online Poker 427
Russian Police Know Who Wrote Gpcode Virus 201
MI6 Terror Photos, Data Accidentally Sold On Ebay 317
New Jersey's Cablevision Hijacks DNS Error Pages 200
CSRF Flaws Found On Major Websites, Including a Bank 143
Council Sells Security Hole On Ebay 147
New Approach To Malware Modifies Linux Kernel 170
Security Flaw In Yahoo Mail Exposes Plaintext Authentication Info 66
California Sec. of State Wants Open Source E-Voting Systems 112
Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit 308
Google Chrome Spinoff 'Iron' For Privacy Fanatics 165
US Responsible For the Majority of Cyber Attacks 205
Scam-Linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out 102
PDF Exploits On the Rise 183
Nevada Businesses Must Start Encrypting E-Mail By Oct. 1st 178
Feds Tighten DNS Security On .Gov 140
Google Goofs On Firefox's Anti-Phishing List 168
Neopwn, the World's First Pentesting Mobile Phone 103
Palin Email Hacker Found 767
To Purge Or Not To Purge Your Data 190
Open Wi-Fi May Become Illegal In India 179
Asus Ships Cracking Software On Recovery DVD 263
SQL Injection Turns BusinessWeek Into Viral Replicator 116
Most Companies Admit Their Data Is At Risk 60
University Brings Charges Against White Hat Hacker 540
Greek Hackers Target CERN's LHC 445
San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network 821
Researcher Publishes Industrial Complex Hack 190
The Fedora-Red Hat Crisis 263
HTTPS Cookie Hijacking Not Just For Gmail 128
Video Shows Easy Hacking of E-Voting Machines 254
McAfee Artemis Claims Protection Online, On-the-Fly 107
PGP Leads Corporate Efforts To Save Bletchley Park 83
The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted 496
Researchers Build Malicious Facebook App 116
US Web Firm Described As "Phantom Registrar" Haven 161
Adam Savage Revises Claim of Lawyer-Bullying On RFID Show 301
Zombie Network Explosion 262
Scammers Riding the Gustav Wave 140
Too Easy For Bank Accounts To Spring a Leak 208
Anarchy Online and Age of Conan Vulnerabilities Fixed 24
Tracking the Terrorists Online 135
A Device to Grab Data From Cell Phones 161
Inside India's CAPTCHA Solving Economy 167
MIT Working On Network Vulnerability Analysis 25
Kaminsky DNS Bug Claimed Fixed By 1-Character Patch 120
BBC Profiles Extradited Cracker Gary McKinnon 315
Hashing Email Addresses For Web Considered Harmful 155
Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows 762
Zero Day Threat 264
Locked iPhones Can Be Unlocked Without Password 102
Compromised SSH Keys Lead To Linux Rootkit Attack 79
Computer Virus Aboard the ISS 290
The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Revealed 330
Computer With UK Bank Customer Data Sold On eBay 184
Web Fraud 2.0 — Point-and-Click Cracking Tools 92
California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable 354
Should Companies Share Criminal Blame In ID Theft? 328
Browser Extension Defeats Internet Eavesdropping 194
Are IT Security Professionals Less Happy? 363
Siemens Develops Multi-Purpose Surveillance System 65
Best Western Loses Details On 8 Million Customers 180
As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations 574
Wealthy Mexicans Getting Chipped in Case of Abduction 306
Diebold Admits Ohio Machines May Lose Votes 502
New Attack Against Multiple Encryption Functions 130
Red Hat, Fedora Servers Compromised 278
Firefox SSL-Certificate Debate Rages On 733
DNS Poisoning Hits One of China's Biggest ISPs 86
Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat 809
FEMA Phones Hacked, Calls Made To Mideast and Asia 241
How Do I Prevent Lan Party Theft? 758
States Throw Out Electronic Voting Machines 238
Adobe Flash Ads Launching Clipboard Hijack Attacks 353
Judge Rules Man Cannot Be Forced To Decrypt HD 775
MIT Students' Gag Order Lifted 160
A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail 530
Why One-time Passwords Suck For MITM Attacks 138
McCain Releases Technology Platform 479
How Important Is Protecting Streaming Media? 182
Gag Order Fuels Responsible Disclosure Debate 113
"War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK 598
US Failing To Prosecute Online Criminals 154
Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password 420

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