The Reg Security: 'World's BIGGEST online fraud': Suspect's phone had ' location' switched on [Mon Aug 5 2013]

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Upgraded 3D printed rifle shoots 14 times before breaking
Version 2.0 'Grizzly' looks closer to lethal
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/05/upgraded_3d_printed_rifle_shoots_14_times_before_breaking/

Tor servers vanish as FBI swoops on kiddie-smut suspect
Reports say user IP addresses revealed, mail down, malware spreading
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/05/tor_servers_vanish_as_fbi_swoops_on_kiddiesmut_suspect/

Step into the BREACH: New attack developed to read encrypted web data
Experts reveal exploit to decrypt your HTTPS connections
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/02/breach_crypto_attack/

FBI spooks use MALWARE to spy on suspects' Android mobes - report
Spear-phishing: It's not just for the bad guys
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/02/fbi_staff_admit_hacking_android/

Snowden picks up 'Epic 0wnage' gong in Vegas... well, not literally
And Barnaby Jack wins posthumous lifetime achievement Pwnie
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/02/pwnie_awards/

Latvian foreign minister speaks out against giving up alleged Gozi
writer to US
Look at Gary McKinnon!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/02/latvian_foreign_minister_tells_america_he_will_not_extradite_alleged_virus_designer/

Terror cops swoop on couple who Googled 'backpacks' and 'pressure
cooker'
PRISM, SCHMISM: Employer called cops over departed worker's Google
history
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/02/michele_catalano_home_visit_after_googling_backpacks_and_pressure_cookers/

Hackers induce 'CATASTROPHIC FAILURE' in mock oil well
'Trivially easy' SCADA exploit could mean liquid CYBERGEDDON is nigh
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/01/scada_plc_vulnerability/

Security breach at Opscode as attackers download databases
Attack blocked in five minutes flat
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/01/security_breach_at_opscode_means_all_change_for_customer_passwords/

Facebook: 'Don't worry, your posts are SECURE with us'
Never mind PRISM, you've got HTTPS by default
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/01/facebook_https_by_default/

'Mm, we do love tweeters' private info, we'll take 40% more,' say
world's g-men
And that's not even counting the secret snoop requests
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/01/twitter_transparency_government_demands/

Edward Snowden skips into Russia as Putin grants him asylum
NSA whistleblower gains 12-month approval to stay
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/01/snowden_russian_asylum/

Gmail, Outlook.com and e-voting 'pwned' on stage in crypto-dodge hack
Once you enter, you can never leave logout
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/01/gmail_hotmail_hijacking/

Syrian Electronic Army no longer just Twitter feed jackers... and
that's bad news
Hackers now target VoIP apps, directories, spewing Trojans as they go -
infosec bods
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/01/sea_analysis/

Boffins: We have FOOLED APPLE with malware app
Also raise iOS malware-over-power-jack claims
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/01/boffins_say_theyve_fooled_apple_with_malware_app/

D-Link patches vid storage units
Remote access and attack vulns
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/01/dlink_patches_vid_storage_units/

Snowden's XKeyscore revelations challenged
Job ads for latest NSA horror ran in 2010
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/01/xkeyscore_leak_challenged/

Hackers crack femtocells to pwn then clone phones
"You should be ditching femtocells altogether"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/01/femtocell_exploit/

Malicious JavaScript flips ad network into rentable botnet
Enslaved machines helplessly press Apache's buttons
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/31/whitehat_security_ad_networks_botnet/

NSA headman: 'Don't worry, our watchful analysts TAKE EXAMS'
Puzzle palace prince wishes more countries would hop on the intercept
train
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/31/nsa_data_interception_black_hat/

New NSA tool exposed: XKeyscore sees 'nearly EVERYTHING you do online'
Makes PRISM look tame
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/31/prism_put_in_the_shade_by_leak_about_even_more_powerful_snoop_tool/

Oz defence department: We don't have a ban on Lenovo kit
Nobody said you did, sunshine
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/31/department_defence_no_lenovo_ban/

Cyber jihad as Indonesia and Bangladesh BLOW EACH OTHER off the web
Hackers bring down hundreds of websites
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/cyber_war_erupts_between_indonesia_and_bangladesh/

UK the 'number 1 target' of online gangsters in 25 countries - e-crime
report
Cyber crime: It's like 'NUCLEAR WAR'...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/ecrime_report_home_affairs_cmte/

Wikileaker Bradley Manning's court martial verdict expected today
Army private faces life in prison for 'aiding the enemy'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/manning_verdict_expected/

Syrian Electronic Army hijack Reuters' Twitter feed
Pro-Assad hacktivists fail to crack White House website
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/reuters_twitter_pwned/

Russia's post-Snowden spooks have not reverted to type
Typewriter tender reveals FSO wants ribbons for old machines, not just
new kit
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/russian_spooks_never_stopped_using_typewriters/

Microsoft invites more companies into its secret threat circle
Presses on with vuln sharing despite spectre of leaks
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/29/microsoft_mapp_security_program_expansion/

Texas students hijack superyacht with GPS-spoofing luggage
Don't panic, yet
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/29/texas_students_hijack_superyacht_with_gpsspoofing_luggage/

Symantec slams Web Gateway back door on would-be corporate spies
Critical remote code execution vuln fixed - only five months later
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/29/symantec_web_gateway_vulns_fixed/

'World's BIGGEST online fraud': Suspect's phone had 'location' switched
on
Secret Service agents: 'Hey, isn't this a little below our pay grade?'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/29/how_russian_megahack_suspects_got_tracked/

Been hacked? Don't dial 999: The plods are too dense, sniffs sec bigwig
'The problem is too big for the authorities to handle'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/29/hacked_assaulted_by_a_ddoser_dont_call_the_cops/

Apple Developer portal partially resurrected
Large community of Sunday night developers overjoyed
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/29/apple_developer_portal_partially_resurrected/


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