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FBI on trial for warrantless Stingray mobile spying
Cellphone spying made easy – and sloppy – by electronic signal slurper
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/29/fbi_stingray_mobile_tracking/

Wisconsin man cuffed over Koch-blocking DDoS attack
Lawmen respond to Anonymous attack on right-wing moneymen
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/28/koch_blocking_cuffing/

MI5 undercover spies: People are falsely claiming to be us
We, of course, are not us either. We 'work at the Home Office'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/28/mi5_financial_scam_warning/

Oz states count cars using Bluetooth
Traffic studies bring out tinfoil hats
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/28/riotact_goes_berserk_over_bluetooth/

BIGGEST DDoS ATTACK IN HISTORY hammers Spamhaus
Plucky mail scrubbers battle internet carpet bombers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/27/spamhaus_ddos_megaflood/

Cyberwar playbook says Stuxnet may have been 'armed attack'
Would you rather be shot, blown up, stabbed - or hacked?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/27/stuxnet_cyberwar_rules/

GCHQ attempts to downplay amazing plaintext password blunder
IDs of all our future spooks get pwned? No big deal
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/27/gchq_plain_text_password_reminder/

Tibetan and Uyghur activists targeted with Android malware
Hmm ... who'd want to do that?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/27/android_malware_targeting_tibetan/

Are you in charge of a lot of biz computers? Got Java on them?
Your ass is 94% hanging in the breeze, my friend
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/26/java_insecurity/

Experts doubt Anonymous Mossad spy outing claims are kosher
Tinker, tailor, soldier, cobblers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/26/anonymous_mossad_leak_claims/

Fortinet nabs wily Coyote and its slice of security appliance cake
Or perhaps we mean pie. Made of meaty customers, anyway
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/26/fortinet_coyote_point/

Whoops! Tiny bug in NetBSD 6.0 code ruins SSH crypto keys
'Random numbers are too important to be left to chance'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/26/netbsd_crypto_bug/

No Skype traffic released to cops or spooks, insists Microsoft
The numbers on Redmond's plod-spy squealing dealings
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/26/ms_transparency_report/

Security damn well IS a dirty word, actually
Wash your mouth out with TLS 1.2
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/26/our_crypto_kind_of_sucks/

Mobile location data identifies individuals
You are where you go
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/26/mobile_movement_identifies_individuals/

South Korea data-wipe malware spread by patching system
Long dark teatime in Seoul saga continues to unfold
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/25/sk_data_wiping_malware_latest/

Maybe don't install that groovy pirated Android keyboard
It could be loggin' your login, warn experts
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/25/android_security_omnishambles/


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