The Reg Security: Would you hire a hacker to run your security? 'Yes' say Brit IT bosses [Mon Oct 7 2013]

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NSA justifies hacking world's digital communications
It's not spying, it's an attempt to 'understand online communication
tools'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/04/nsa_spying_statement/

NSA using Firefox flaw to snoop on Tor users
Good news/bad news in latest Snowden leak
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/04/nsa_using_firefox_flaw_to_snoop_on_tor_users/

Thirteen alleged Anons named and charged by FBI in antipiracy web war
Operation Payback's a bitch - indeed
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/04/op_payback_anon_indictment/

GitHub wipes hand across bloodied face, stumbles from brutal DDoS
beating
Wouldn't have happened if you'd just used SVN, eh!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/04/github_ddos/

Hang in there, Internet Explorer peeps: Gaping zero-day fix coming Tues
What a way to celebrate a DECADE of Patch Tuesday rollouts
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/04/oct_patch_tuesday_ie_0day_fix_due/

'ALL information leaks', Samsung exec told us – Nokia splutters in
filing
Plus: Reg hack just 'wants to sell out the species to the Satanists'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/04/quotw_first_week_october_2013/

Snowden's email provider gave crypto keys to FBI – on paper printouts
Lavabit founder says snoops demanded total access
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/03/lavabit_snowden_investigation_details/

A-D'OH!-BE: Adobe hit by 'sophisticated' MEGA HACK RANSACK
2.9 MEEELLION accounts slurped, source code compromised
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/03/adobe_major_hack/

Feds: Silk Road pirate king tried to SNUFF customer AND employee
Two contract hits? That's just DREADful
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/03/silk_road_witness_murder_allegations/

Iranian cyberwar chief shot dead. Revolutionary Guard: Assassination?
Don't 'speculate'
Cyber War HQ loses boss in old-fashioned kinetic hit
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/03/iranian_cyber_security_chief_assassinated/

NSA: Yes we 'experimented' with US mobile tracking. But we didn't
inhale
Huh - Euro snoop systems are on constantly
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/03/nsa_admits_tracking_us_cellphones/

Filipino phablet squawks 'I'M STOLEN'
Calling out 'Magnanakaws' before they scarper
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/03/im_being_stolen_squawks_filipino_smartmobe/

Yahoo! Finds! Cash! Behind! Sofa! For! Proper! Bug! Bounties!
Sorry 'bout that $12.50 prize, does $15k sound better?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/03/yahoo_finds_cash_behind_sofa_for_proper_bug_bounties/

Feds smash internet drug bazaar Silk Road, say they'll KEELHAUL 'Dread
Pirate Roberts'
G-men snaffle $3.6m of Bitcoin crypto-doubloons, too
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/02/silk_road_shutdown/

So sad about the NSA web-spying bombshells - but think of the MONEY!
Slap 'Not made in the USA' stickers on your gear, says analyst chief
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2013/10/02/nsa_scandal_business_opportunity/

State-backed hackers: You think you're so mysterious, but you're really
not – report
It's those 'regional traits' that give you away, say infosec sleuths
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/02/nation_state_cyberattack/

Cloud is a key-management pain: NIST
Too many services, too little oversight
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/02/cloud_is_a_keymanagement_pain_nist/

Hackers just POURING through unpatched Internet Explorer zero-day hole
Oh, sysadmins. It's so much worse than we feared – report
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/01/ie_0day_widely_exploited/

'Quarter' of TWO-MILLION-strong zombie PC army lured to their deaths
Pied piper Symantec says it led infected computers into sinkhole
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/01/zeroaccess_botnet_sunk_sorta/

McAfee the man launches 'NSA-thwarting' $100 privacy gizmo
Pretending to be Guatemalan trinket peddler not disguise ENOUGH*
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/01/mcafee_antinsa_gizmo/

Facebook allows full personal data ransack with Graph Search
Posts, updates, the lot. Our ad sales will boom. Mwu-ha-haaaa ... bitch
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/01/facebook_graph_search_targets_all_data/

GCHQ's CESG CCP 4 UK GOV IT BFFs? LOL RTFA INFOSEC VIPs ASAP
Yet another security certificate fiddled with by Brit spooks
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/01/cesg_ccp_certs/

Yahoo! Pays! Paltry! $12.50! Bug! Bounty! For! Nasty! Email! Vuln!
And even that had to be spent on Yahoo! tat
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/01/yahoo_pays_paltry_1250_bug_bounty_for_nasty_email_vuln/

BitTorrent trialling P2P secure messaging
Going where Lavabit and Silent Circle fear to tread
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/01/bittorrent_trialling_p2p_secure_messaging/

Sweet murmuring Siri opens stalker vulnerability hole in iOS 7
'Siri, hand over my contacts and history now…'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/30/sweettalking_siri_opens_stalking_security_hole_in_ios_7/

Would you hire a hacker to run your security? 'Yes' say Brit IT bosses
We don't have enough securo bods in the industry either, reckon gloomy
BOFHs
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/30/it_pros_would_hire_exhackers/

Hundreds of hackers sought for new £500m UK cyber-bomber strike force
Britain must rm -rf its enemies or be rm -rf'ed, declares defence
secretary
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/30/uk_cyber_reserve_force/


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