The Reg Security: Microsoft covers Brit who penetrated Windows 8. 1 with GOLD [Mon Oct 14 2013]

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Back door found in D-Link routers
D-secret is D-logon string allowing access to everything
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/13/dlink_routers_have_admin_backdoor/

Just the fax, ma'am: How hacktivists went on a mass web joyride spree
Web.com DNS hijack latest: Password-reset high jinx fingered
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/12/dns_hijack_hack_analysis/

Biometrics not so trustworthy: False Samsung stock-pump buy draws
Swedish cops
Particularly untruthful press release = money
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/12/cops_called_after_fake_samsung_biometrics_buy_fiddles_with_stock_prices/

Easily picked CD-ROM drive locks let Mexican banditos nick ATM cash
Who needs an inside man when you've got a boot disc?
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Trend Micro buys Taiwanese deep packet sniffing firm
Globo security giant to add slurpee's tech to its corporate products
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/11/trend_buys_dpi_firm_broadweb/

NSA tactics no better than a CYBERCRIME GANG, says infosec'er
Detailed analysis reveals they're on par with banking scammers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/11/nsa_exploit_methodology/

Spies launch hack attacks on Mongolia... to see who its friends are –
report
Like checking up on your kid's Faceboo... well, not really
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/11/chinese_apt_mongolia/

Electronic Frontier Foundation bails from Global Network Initiative
PRISM claims a casualty as EFF can't bear to be associated with NSA
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/11/electronic_frontiers_foundation_bails_from_global_network_initiative/

Moscow cops cuff suspect in Blackhole crimeware bust
$50-a-day malware kit set miscreants back more than priciest software
licence
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/10/blackhole_exploit_kit_arrests/

Google to award bounties for fixing non-Google open source code
Patch pillars of the internet, earn valuable crumbs
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/10/google_open_source_bug_bounties/

vBulletin vuln opens backdoor to rogue accounts
The workaround is easy, though
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/10/vbulletin_vuln_opens_backdoor_to_rogue_accounts/

MI5 boss: Snowden leaks of GCHQ methods HELPED TERRORISTS
And denies it snoops on world+dog. That's alright then
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/mi5_boss_net_surveillence_speech/

Microsoft covers Brit who penetrated Windows 8.1 with GOLD
A thin sheet of gold, anyway, worth $100k
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/windows_bypass_bug_bounty/

Happy 10th b-day, Patch Tuesday: TWO critical IE 0-day bugs, did you
say?
A decade on, Microsoft pushes out 8 bulletins – half of 'em critical
bug squishes
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/patch_tuesday_double_ie_trouble/

Japan needs 80,000 EXTRA info-security bods to stay safe
Chronic shortage of 'outstanding manpower' in the Far East
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/japan_infosecurity_skills_shortage/

Nothing to sniff at: Cisco finishes $2.8bn gobble of Snort'ing guy's
Sourcefire
Biggest security purchase since Intel wolfed down McAfee
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/cisco_completes_sourcefire_buy_to_beef_up_network_security_skills/

Microsoft hands out $28K to bug-hunters
Help us actually squish 'em and reap even bigger rewards – Redmond
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/08/ms_bug_bounty/

AVG, Avira and WhatsApp pwned by hacktivists' DNS hijack
Chatty, security-conscious surfers sent to pro-Palestine website
instead
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/08/dns_hijack_attack_spree/

Android adware that MUST NOT BE NAMED threatens MILLIONS
Software's 'aggressive' slurps, vulnerabilities are so BAD, researchers
won't ID it
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/08/android_ad_peril/

Digital 'activists' scramble to build Silk Road 2.0, but drug kingpins
are spooked
We can hardly find a dealer, moan Blighty drug users
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/08/silk_road_2_point_0/

UK bankers prep for cyberwar: Will simulate ATTACK on system
One-day op will test stock market, payment bods' resistance to hackers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/08/uk_banks_cyber_stress_test/



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