The Reg Security: Four ways the Guardian could have protected Snowden – by THE NSA [Mon Aug 26 2013]

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PayPal fixes critical account switcheroo bug after researcher tipoff
All your account are belong to us
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/23/paypal_fixes_critical_account_switcheroo_bug_after_researcher_tipoff/

Russian spyboss brands Tor a crook's paradise, demands a total ban
Anti-child-abuse campaign sparks push to outlaw anonymising network
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/23/russia_pushes_tor_ban/

Report: Secret British spy base in Middle East taps region's internet
'Security services hook tentacles into underseas fibre optic cables'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/23/underseas_fibre_optic_cables_tapped_by_uk_spooks_from_secret_middle_east_base/

Germany warns: You just CAN'T TRUST some Windows 8 PCs
Microsoft: You can still buy an 'insecure' Win 8 machine sans TPM chip
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Boffins use HOT maths MODELS to predict spam of the future
Experts build spam filters using game theory
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/23/game_theory_spam_buster/

CipherCloud lands in Oz
Cunning key caper laughs in the face of spooks, sovereignty
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/22/ciphercloud_lands_in_oz/

Four ways the Guardian could have protected Snowden – by THE NSA
Spooks' own advice lays out exactly how this crypto wypto hypto thing
works
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/22/guardian_snowden_advice/

Hacktivists boast of English Defence League KO after website downed
Anonymous-affiliated bods claim fresh scalp of far-right group
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/22/edl_website_hack_zhc/

ASIO seeks new hires for telecoms interception teams
Job ads at suggest Australia's main spook house will do lots more
hanging on the telephone
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/22/asio_beefing_up_telecoms_interception_teams/

Cisco goes public with major vulns
Unified comms, hosted collaboration need fixes
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/cisco_goes_public_with_major_vulns/

Bank man: System's down, let's have coffee. Oh SNAP, where's all the
CASH?
Hackers use DDoSes to distract staffers... while nicking MILLIONS
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/cyberheist_ddos_smokescreen/

Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison
Wikileaking private could be freed in ten years
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/manning_35_years_jail_wikileaks_assange/

'Hacked' estate agency Foxtons breaks glass, pulls password reset cord
10,000 account logins feared leaked all over the web
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/foxtons_password_reset/

Forget hackers - storms and snafus are bigger threat, say infosec bods
More downtime caused by snow than black hats, EU study finds
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/enisa_comms_outage_breakdown_report/

Brazilians tear strip off NSA in wake of Snowden, mull anti-US-spook
law
South Americans demand web privacy as PRISM journalist's Brazilian
boyfriend held
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/brazil_data_protection/

Intel bakes super-snooper to stop industrial espionage
Hadoop-based tool sniffs 4bn network events a day, may end up as McAfee
product
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/intel_bakes_supersnooper_to_stop_industrial_espionage/

Hardware failures cause more comms outages than hackers: EU
Cybergeddon postponed as incompetence trumps conspiracy again
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/hardware_failures_caused_more_comms_outages_than_hackers_eu/

Palestinian Facebook flaw-finder getting $10,000 payday in online
appeal
Security industry rallies round when Zuck & Co. refuse to pay up
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/palestinian_facebook_flawfinder_getting_10000_payday_in_online_appeal/

Second time's a charm! Microsoft tries again with Active Directory
patch
'The fix actually turned into a bigger problem than the one it was
attempting to solve'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/ad_security_fix_reissued/

Bloke leaks '1000s' of Twitter login tokens, says he can hack ANY twit
Known vulnerability sat on by Twitter, inevitable happens
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/twitter_oauth_token_hack/

Guardian lets UK spooks trash 'Snowden files' PCs to make them feel
better
Editor tells of 'peculiarly pointless piece of symbolism' after hard
drive destruction
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/snowden_drives_destruction_gchq_tempora/

Legal bible Groklaw pulls plug in wake of Lavabit shutdown, NSA
firestorm
Blogger who tracked epic Linux patent, copyright wars can't rely on
email
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/groklaw_to_shut_down/

Password-keeper LastPass plugs up IE cache leak vuln
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/lastpass_security_update/

Snowden journalist's partner gave Brit spooks passwords to seized files
Miranda threatened with jail after being seized on apparent courier
mission
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/british_gave_us_heads_up_over_interrogation_of_snowden_hacks_partner/

British spooks seize tech from Snowden journo's boyfriend at airport
Outrage as special police grab mobe, laptop, even game console
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/19/greenwald_partner_detention_outrage/


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