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Slashdot Items Tagged "security"

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Saturday May 18, 2013 @10:08PM Ask Slashdot: Why Do Firms Leak Personal Details In Plain Text?
Friday May 17, 2013 @08:34PM Password Strength Testers Work For Important Accounts
Thursday May 16, 2013 @08:58AM Honeynet Project Researchers Build Publicly Available ICS Honeynet
Tuesday May 14, 2013 @12:21PM Massive Amount of Malware Targets Older Java Flaws
Monday May 13, 2013 @10:24PM Saudi Arabian Telecom Pitches to Moxie Marlinspike
Monday May 13, 2013 @09:05PM Kinectasploit: Hack Tools Meet Kinect
Monday May 13, 2013 @10:36AM Vulnerability Found In Skyrim, Fallout, Other Bethesda Games
Monday May 13, 2013 @07:52AM Kaspersky Inks a Deal With Qualcomm To Improve Android Security
Sunday May 12, 2013 @09:43AM How an Aussie University Creates the World's Best Hackers
Saturday May 11, 2013 @10:57AM How Aussie Uni Creates World's Best Hackers
Friday May 10, 2013 @10:31PM Snapchats Don't Disappear
Thursday May 09, 2013 @04:51PM How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion
Thursday May 09, 2013 @10:34AM The NSA's Own Guide To Google Hacking and Other Internet Research
Thursday May 09, 2013 @08:47AM Tool Reveals iPad and iPhone User Locations
Wednesday May 08, 2013 @08:03PM Backdoor Targeting Apache Servers Spreads To Nginx, Lighttpd
Wednesday May 08, 2013 @06:38PM Name.com Resets All Passwords Following Security Breach
Wednesday May 08, 2013 @11:33AM Former Demonoid Members Receive Email Claiming Resurrection, Get Malware Instead
Wednesday May 08, 2013 @09:29AM Cylance Hacks Google Office Building Management System
Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:54AM Internet Explorer 0-day Attacks On US Nuke Workers Hit 9 Other Sites
Monday May 06, 2013 @10:26PM Popular Android Anti-Virus Software Fooled By Trivial Techniques
Monday May 06, 2013 @06:38PM Los Alamos National Labs Has Working Hub-and-Spoke Quantum Network
Monday May 06, 2013 @08:15AM Bruce Schneier: Why Collecting More Data Doesn't Increase Safety
Saturday May 04, 2013 @11:11AM Paul's Call To Abolish the TSA, One Year Later
Saturday May 04, 2013 @08:48AM Fedora 19 To Stop Masking Passwords
Friday May 03, 2013 @08:24PM Antivirus Firms "Won't Co-operate" With PC-Hacking Dutch Police
Friday May 03, 2013 @02:59PM Pentagon Approval of iOS and Samsung KNOX Is Bad News for BlackBerry
Thursday May 02, 2013 @10:11PM Following Best Coding Practices Doesn't Always Mean Better Security
Thursday May 02, 2013 @06:25PM Chinese Hackers Infiltrate US Army Database, Compromise Safety of Dams
Thursday May 02, 2013 @09:28AM Alaskan Middle Schoolers Phish Their Teachers
Thursday May 02, 2013 @08:06AM OpenBSD 5.3 Released
Wednesday May 01, 2013 @06:27PM Most Companies Will Require You To Bring Your Own Mobile Device By 2017
Wednesday May 01, 2013 @06:06PM Australia's Mandatory Data Breach Notification Bill Revealed
Wednesday May 01, 2013 @08:25AM Finfisher Spyware Use By Governments Expanding, Masquerades as Firefox
Monday April 29, 2013 @11:52AM Sophisticated Apache Backdoor In the Wild
Sunday April 28, 2013 @05:20PM NATO Holds Annual Cyber Defense Exercise
Sunday April 28, 2013 @08:21AM Cyber Vulnerabilities Found In Navy's Newest Warship
Thursday April 25, 2013 @01:08PM Recovering Data From Broken Hard Drives and SSDs (Video)
Wednesday April 24, 2013 @05:59PM Thousands of SCADA, ICS Devices Exposed Through Serial Ports
Monday April 22, 2013 @10:18AM Machine Learning Susses Out Social-Network Fraud
Saturday April 20, 2013 @12:43PM Bruce Schneier On the Marathon Bomber Manhunt
Thursday April 18, 2013 @06:18PM Oracle Fixes 42 Security Vulnerabilities In Java
Wednesday April 17, 2013 @06:28PM Researchers Hack Over a Dozen Home Routers
Wednesday April 17, 2013 @12:16PM Average DDoS Attack Bandwidth Jumps Eight-Fold In One Quarter
Monday April 15, 2013 @02:06PM Linode Hacked, Credit Cards and Passwords Leaked
Monday April 15, 2013 @10:10AM Book Review: The Death of the Internet
Monday April 15, 2013 @07:51AM Passthoughts, Not Passwords: Authentication Via Brainwaves
Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:31PM Hackers Could Abuse Electric Car Chargers To Cripple the Grid, Researchers Say
Thursday April 11, 2013 @06:43PM "Winnti" Attacks On Online Gaming Servers Dissected
Thursday April 11, 2013 @08:16AM Hackers Swipe Unreleased Game From Ubisoft
Wednesday April 10, 2013 @01:10PM Small Company Wants to Make Encryption Key Management Into a Commodity (Video)
Wednesday April 10, 2013 @09:38AM S. Korea Says Cyber Attack From North Wiped 48,700 Machines
Wednesday April 10, 2013 @08:57AM Draft IETF Standard for SSH Key Management Released
Tuesday April 09, 2013 @03:04AM Bruce Schneier: IT for Oppression
Monday April 08, 2013 @06:13PM Method Found To Unlock Qualcomm Based Motorola Phones
Monday April 08, 2013 @10:57AM The Rise of Everyday Hackers
Monday April 08, 2013 @07:51AM Google Uses Reputation To Detect Malicious Downloads
Sunday April 07, 2013 @10:34AM Researcher Evan Booth: How To Weaponize Tax-Free Airport Goods
Saturday April 06, 2013 @08:01PM Why Do Pathogen Researchers Face Less Scrutiny Than Nuclear Scientists?
Saturday April 06, 2013 @01:46PM Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes?
Saturday April 06, 2013 @10:48AM New Skype Malware Uses Victims' Machines To Mine Bitcoins
Friday April 05, 2013 @07:10AM Scribd Reveals It Was Hacked, Asks Users To Change Their Passwords
Thursday April 04, 2013 @06:14PM North Korea's Twitter and Flickr Accounts Hacked By Anonymous
Thursday April 04, 2013 @03:13PM Ask Slashdot: Protecting Home Computers From Guests?
Thursday April 04, 2013 @11:18AM Bitcoin Exchange Mt.Gox Suffers Serious Attack, Instawallet Offline
Thursday April 04, 2013 @06:13AM Non-Volatile DIMMs To Ship This Year
Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:01PM The Activists Who Bring Security To the Oppressed
Wednesday April 03, 2013 @08:57PM Russian Cyber Criminal Unmasked As Creator of "Most Successful" Apple Malware
Wednesday April 03, 2013 @06:24PM MIT To End Open-Network Policy In Response To Recent Attacks
Wednesday April 03, 2013 @06:15PM Should the US Really Limit Chinese-Government Influenced IT Systems?
Wednesday April 03, 2013 @08:59AM The War Z Taken Offline Following Hack
Tuesday April 02, 2013 @08:51AM Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail
Monday April 01, 2013 @10:45PM The Underhanded C Contest Is Back
Friday March 29, 2013 @04:45PM US and Russia Lead List of Malware Hosts
Friday March 29, 2013 @11:19AM Security Fix Leads To PostgreSQL Lock Down
Friday March 29, 2013 @07:49AM Did the Spamhaus DDoS Really Slow Down Global Internet Access?
Friday March 29, 2013 @03:37AM Did the Spamhaus DDos really slow down global Internet access?
Thursday March 28, 2013 @03:38PM Misconfigured Open DNS Resolvers Key To Massive DDoS Attacks
Thursday March 28, 2013 @02:37PM Open DNS Resolvers Center Stage in Massive DDoS Attacks
Thursday March 28, 2013 @01:27PM Spamhaus Attack: Did Biggest Cyber-Attack in History Really Break the Internet?
Thursday March 28, 2013 @12:46PM When Your Data Absolutely, Positively has to be Destroyed (Video)
Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:28AM The FreeBSD Foundation is soliciting project proposals
Wednesday March 27, 2013 @06:22PM One In Six Amazon S3 Storage Buckets Are Ripe For Data-Plundering
Wednesday March 27, 2013 @05:31PM One in six Amazon S3 storage buckets are ripe for data-plundering
Wednesday March 27, 2013 @03:31PM Air Force exploring systems that safeguard spacecraft network security
Wednesday March 27, 2013 @01:30PM Open DNS Resolvers Need To Be Shut Down
Wednesday March 27, 2013 @11:27AM New Breed of Malware Hits POS Systems and ATMs
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @09:52PM Mobile Phone Use Patterns Identify Individuals Better Than Fingerprints
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @05:21PM Ask Slashdot: Encrypted digital camera/recording devices?
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @12:06PM Ask Slashdot: Do-It-Yourself Security Auditing Tools?
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @10:31AM Android Trojan Used in APT Attacks
Monday March 25, 2013 @08:29PM Wi-Fi Enabled Digital Cameras Easily Exploitable
Monday March 25, 2013 @04:47PM Tallinn Manual Interprets International Law in Cyberwar Context
Saturday March 23, 2013 @12:28PM Ask Slashdot: Simplifying Encryption and Backup?
Friday March 22, 2013 @10:02PM Ask Slashdot: Less Volatile Encryption?
Friday March 22, 2013 @09:41PM US Gov't To Scan More Civilian Infrastructure Traffic
Friday March 22, 2013 @09:26PM A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP
Friday March 22, 2013 @02:35PM Twitter, Hotmail, LinkedIn, Yahoo Open To Hijacking
Friday March 22, 2013 @01:23PM 'HOMELAND' TO SCAN EMAILS, MONITOR WEB TRAFFIC
Friday March 22, 2013 @12:07PM Apple Makes Two Factor Authentication Available for Apple IDs
Friday March 22, 2013 @01:50AM Twitter, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Yahoo open to hijacking
Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:36PM New OS X Trojan Adware Injects Ads Into Chrome, Firefox, Safari
Thursday March 21, 2013 @11:26AM BBC Twitter Accounts Hacked By Pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army
Thursday March 21, 2013 @11:01AM BBC Twitter Accounts Hacked by Pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army
Thursday March 21, 2013 @10:59AM Botnet Uses Default Passwords To Conduct "Internet Census 2012"
Thursday March 21, 2013 @09:26AM Poking Holes In Samsung's Android Security
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:13PM Decade-Old Espionage Malware Found Targeting Government Computers
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:04PM Laser pointers produce too much energy, pose risks for the careless
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @12:24PM T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling Was Vulnerable to Trivial MITM Attack
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:44AM Possible Cyber Attack Against South Korean Banks and TV Stations
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:32AM Krebs Hacker Unmasked, Hit Ars and Wired's Honan
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @05:23AM Schneier: Security Awareness Training 'a Waste of Time'
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @03:32AM Possible Cyber Attack Against South Korean Banks and TV Stations
Tuesday March 19, 2013 @05:29PM Apple Releases Patch For Evasi0n Jailbreak (After It's Used 18 Million Times)
Tuesday March 19, 2013 @01:39PM Google Implements DNSSEC Validation for Public DNS
Tuesday March 19, 2013 @12:11PM Journalist Identifies 20-year-old Hacker Who Sent SWAT Team to his House
Tuesday March 19, 2013 @10:21AM T-Mobile Security Flaw Allowed Eavesdropping of Wi-Fi Calls, Texts
Tuesday March 19, 2013 @09:28AM Revealed: Chrome Really Was Exploited At Pwnium 2013
Tuesday March 19, 2013 @03:28AM Revealed: Google Chrome WAS Exploited at Pwnium 2013
Monday March 18, 2013 @04:19PM Bug on EA's Origin game platform allows attackers to hijack player PCs
Monday March 18, 2013 @01:26PM Security Vulnerability Found On US Federal Government Contractors Site
Monday March 18, 2013 @01:09PM Researcher: Hackers Can Jam Traffic By Manipulating Real-Time Traffic Data
Monday March 18, 2013 @12:59PM Java Code, Details Released for Potential Sandbox Bypass Issue
Monday March 18, 2013 @08:35AM Why you should wipe the drive after a compromise
Saturday March 16, 2013 @12:20PM Ask Slashdot:How to protect a text document
Saturday March 16, 2013 @10:37AM Massive security breech at US Federal Government contractors site
Saturday March 16, 2013 @07:17AM If You're a Foreigner Using GPS In China, You Could Be a Spy
Friday March 15, 2013 @09:43PM Apple Nabs Java Exploit That Bypassed Disabled Plugin
Friday March 15, 2013 @08:35PM Raspberry Pi As Hardware Backdoor
Friday March 15, 2013 @06:50PM Brian Krebs Gets SWATted
Friday March 15, 2013 @05:28PM Brian Krebs gets "SWATted"
Friday March 15, 2013 @02:43PM Hacker Targets Clinton Confidant In New Attack
Friday March 15, 2013 @11:40AM Doctors Bypass Biometric Scanners With Fake Fingers
Friday March 15, 2013 @07:30AM The Internet's Bad Neighborhoods
Friday March 15, 2013 @07:28AM US Cyber Command Discloses Offensive Cyberwarfare Capabilities
Thursday March 14, 2013 @02:39PM Cryptographers Break Commonly Used RC4 Cipher
Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:44AM US Vulnerability Database Yanked Over Malware Infestation
Thursday March 14, 2013 @04:06AM Bromium Proposes Virtualising Every Task To Secure Laptops
Thursday March 14, 2013 @12:40AM Cryptographers Break Commonly Used RC4 Cipher For Web Encryption
Thursday March 14, 2013 @12:05AM NASA IG Paints Bleak Picture For Agency Projects
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @06:25PM Blog Reveals a Chinese Military Hacker's Life Is One of Boredom and Bitterness
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @03:09PM NASA IG paints bleak picture for agency projects, IT security
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @12:53PM Bruce Schneier: A Cyber Cold War Could Destabilize the Internet
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @11:16AM Google Launches Initiative To Help Hacked Sites
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @10:53AM Bruce Schneier: A Cyber Cold War" Could Destabilize the Internet
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @09:58AM Kali Linux, Successor of the BackTrack Penetration Testing Distro, Launched
Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:54AM BackTrack successor Kali Linux launched
Monday March 11, 2013 @06:40PM Nuclear Arms Cuts, Supported By 56% of Americans, Would Make the World Safer
Monday March 11, 2013 @06:27PM Nuclear cuts, supported by 56% of Americans, make the world safer
Monday March 11, 2013 @11:57AM iOS App Store Didn't Use HTTPS Until Two Months Ago
Monday March 11, 2013 @07:36AM Many Watering Holes, Targets In Hacks That Netted Facebook, Twitter and Apple
Sunday March 10, 2013 @11:33PM NZ card payment terminals display HERP-DERP EFTPOS
Saturday March 09, 2013 @07:09PM Facebook Rolled Its Own 0Day For Red Team Exercise
Saturday March 09, 2013 @04:17PM Apple Finally Fixes Unencrypted App Store Login
Saturday March 09, 2013 @03:57AM How the First Bitcoin Hedge Fund Approaches Security
Saturday March 09, 2013 @12:35AM Apple finally fixes unencrypted App Store login
Friday March 08, 2013 @10:34PM DNS Hijack Leads To Bitcoin Heist
Friday March 08, 2013 @07:50PM Chrome OS Remains Undefeated At Pwnium 3
Friday March 08, 2013 @07:29PM Security Engineering textbook posted on author's website
Friday March 08, 2013 @08:17AM Facebook Rolled Its Own 0Day for Red Team Exercise?
Thursday March 07, 2013 @10:37PM FTC Goes After Scammers Who Blasted Millions of Text Messages
Thursday March 07, 2013 @02:58PM Chrome, Firefox, IE 10, Java, Win 8 All Hacked At Pwn2Own
Thursday March 07, 2013 @01:37PM FTC dumps on scammers who blasted millions of text messages
Thursday March 07, 2013 @01:25PM Twitter OAuth API Keys Leaked
Thursday March 07, 2013 @09:06AM Hockey Sticks Among Carry-On Items TSA Has Cleared For Planes
Thursday March 07, 2013 @03:16AM Chrome; Firefox; IE 10; Java; Win 8 hacked at Pwn2Own
Wednesday March 06, 2013 @02:04PM RSA: Phish Me If You Can (Video)
Wednesday March 06, 2013 @11:47AM The Facebook privacy conundrum: When less is more
Tuesday March 05, 2013 @10:41PM Hockey sticks, pocket knives and billiard cues among carry-on items TSA will soo
Tuesday March 05, 2013 @02:55PM RSA: Learn About the International Association of Privacy Professionals (Video)
Tuesday March 05, 2013 @10:57AM Anonymous publishes personal information of Wall Street CEO's
Tuesday March 05, 2013 @08:25AM Oracle Rushes Emergency Java Update To Patch McRAT Vulnerabilities
Monday March 04, 2013 @06:46PM Oracle Rushes Emergency Java Update to Patch McRAT Vulnerabilities
Monday March 04, 2013 @02:09PM Ohio Man Charged With Shooting Robot
Monday March 04, 2013 @01:30PM RSA: From Apple Keys to Biometric Security Devices (Video)
Monday March 04, 2013 @12:35PM Where Apps Meet Work, Secret Data Is at Risk
Monday March 04, 2013 @12:26PM Prompted by Oracle Rejection, Researcher Finds Five New Java Sandbox Vulnerabili
Monday March 04, 2013 @03:53AM 5 Lessons from The FBI Insider Threat Program
Friday March 01, 2013 @03:16PM RSA: An Unusual Approach to User Authentication: Behavorial Biometrics (Video)
Friday March 01, 2013 @10:21AM Chinese Hackers Target US Gas Pipelines in Die Hard-Style Attack
Thursday February 28, 2013 @05:54PM Anonymous Leaks Bank Of America 'Secrets'
Thursday February 28, 2013 @04:24PM RSA: The Pwn Pad is an Android Tablet-Based Penetration Tester (Video)
Thursday February 28, 2013 @04:23PM Carnegie Mellon gets $6M for secure software to protect vehicles from hackers
Thursday February 28, 2013 @02:40PM Tech Guru Warns Of Internet "Disaster"
Thursday February 28, 2013 @05:05AM Australian Tax Office stores passwords in clear text
Wednesday February 27, 2013 @03:04PM RSA: Self-Encrypting USB Hard Drives for all Operating Systems (Video)
Wednesday February 27, 2013 @02:16PM Hackers attack European governments using 'MiniDuke' malware
Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:15PM Stuxnet's Earliest Known Version Discovered and Analyzed
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @10:06PM Latest Kelihos Botnet Shut Down Live at RSA Conference 2013
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @02:06PM Ask Slashdot: Identity Theft Attempt In Progress; How To Respond?
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @10:55AM Bypassing Google's Two-Factor Authentication
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @09:22AM Bit9 Says 32 Malicious Programs Whitelisted In Recent Hack
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @05:46AM Bi9 Says 32 Malicious Program Whitelisted In Recent Hack
Monday February 25, 2013 @05:31PM U.K. and India Sign Cybersecurity Pact
Monday February 25, 2013 @03:43PM Dirty IT Security Consultant Tricks
Monday February 25, 2013 @02:43PM Helena Airport Manager Blocks TSA From Taking Full-Body Scanner
Monday February 25, 2013 @02:08PM Microsoft Admits To Being Hacked Too
Monday February 25, 2013 @02:07PM Airport Manager Won't Let TSA Replace Body Scanner With Magnetometer
Monday February 25, 2013 @12:42PM Fingerprint Purchasing Technology Ensures Buyer Has a Pulse
Monday February 25, 2013 @11:28AM Microsoft admits to being hacked too
Sunday February 24, 2013 @08:04PM Curiosity killed the QRcode app, study finds curious men are most likely victims

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