The Reg Security: Twitter fires up stronger, anti-snooping encryption for its millions of twits [Mon Nov 25 2013]

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Racing Post p0wned, accounts accessed and passwords pinched
Hacker greets the judges with security down lame and headed for the
knacker's yard
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/25/racingpost_hacked/

Most of Dread Pirate Roberts' treasure still buried, say researchers
Is there a link from Silk Road to Bitcoin daddy Satoshi Nakamoto?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/25/most_of_dprs_treasure_still_buried_say_researchers/

New NSA leak reveals invasion of the management consultants
Spookhaus documents infested with the very worst corporate-speak
imaginable
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/24/linguistic_bodysnatchers_invade_the_nsa/

Rackspace patches Windows Updater vuln
Get patching lest this remote execution problem bite you somewhere
cloudy
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/24/rackspace_patches_windows_updater_vuln/

Twitter fires up stronger, anti-snooping encryption for its millions of
twits
Crypto-boffinry to keep network traffic secret even if private keys
swiped
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/23/twitter_beefs_up_security_with_added_encryption/

'High impact' Gmail password security hole blew accounts wide open
Payday for researcher who spotted webmail programming gaffe
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/researcher_earns_payday_for_fixing_high_impact_gmail_password_flaw/

Meet the man who'll TAKE OVER if UK faces CYBER ATTACK
Chris Gibson to head up UK's national Computer Emergency Response Team
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/uk_cert_analysis/

Mystery traffic redirection attack pulls net traffic through Belarus,
Iceland
There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/net_traffic_redirection_attacks/

Berners-Lee: 'Growing tide of surveillance' is destroying the internet
Stop killing my baby, says British web daddy
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/bernerslee_spooks_risk_destroying_the_internet/

Bug bounty upstart thinks there's BIG MONEY in crowdtesting
They might be onto something by outsourcing it, though
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/crowdsource_bug_bounty_scheme/

Stolen CREDIT CARD details? Nah... crooks desire your PRIVATES
Hackers need to get PERSONAL to score the big bucks - researchers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/cybercrime_market_prices/

China opens its ears to snooping in foreign tongues
Arabic, Japanese and regional dialects now discernible by Beijing's
intelligence chaps
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/china_surveillance_xinjiang_terrorist/

LG: You can stop hiding from your scary SPY TELLY quite soon now
'Don't worry, we'll switch that off for you real soon'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/lg_tv_spying_statement/

Huge horde of droids whacks code box GitHub in password-guess attack
That's an awful lot of angry SVN users, in there
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/21/github_password_probing_reveal/

Meet Stuxnet's stealthier older sister: Super-bug turned Iran's nuke
plants into pressure cookers
New report documents Mark I cyber-weapon build
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/21/stuxnet_fearsome_predecessor/

Darknet: It's not just for DRUGS. Ninja Banking Trojan uses it too
Baddies even offer a 'help desk' with a ticketing system
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/21/ninja_banking_malware/

SCADA flaws put world leaders at risk of TERRIBLE TRAFFIC JAM
Host city for 2014's G20 meeting pen tests its traffic lights and finds
flaws galore
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/21/scada_flaws_put_world_leaders_at_risk_of_terrible_traffic_jam/

Cryptolocker infects cop PC: Massachusetts plod fork out Bitcoin ransom
Police learn about crypto-currency and AES256 crypto the hard way
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/21/police_pay_cryptolocker_crooks_to_get_their_computers_back/

Data of 42 MILLION seekers for love plundered from Aussie dating site
Indications are this was the hackers behind the Adobe raid
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/20/dating_site_mega_password_breach/

No woman, no drive: Saddo hackers lob Android nasty at Saudi women's
rights campaign
Trojan also sniffs at privates...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/20/android_malware_targets_saudi_woman_drivers/

Pakistani phone-buyers will need skin in the game with biometric buying
plan
Plan to stamp out illegal SIMS will mean fingerprinting when bagging a
new mobe
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/20/pakistan_biometric_sim_registration/

Obamacare website 'either hacked or will be soon', warns infosec expert
And it won't be from hacktivists wielding dud 'Destroy Obama Care' ray
gun
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/19/obamacare_site_insecurity_fears/

Lavabit founder: Feds ORDERED email providers to stay open
Plus: Moxie labels shuttered service's crypto no better than 'a promise
not to peek'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/19/lavabit_analysis/

Old JBoss vuln in the wild, needs patching
Remote code execution, the usual thing
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/19/old_jboss_vuln_in_the_wild_needs_patching/

Oz gov sysadmins ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
PRISM? They've heard of it but never thought to block it
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/19/oz_gov_sysadmins_asleep_at_the_wheel/

vBulletin.com's password database hack gives forum admins the jitters
Logins reset ... just in case
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/18/vbulletin_hacked/

Right, that's IT: We'll encrypt INTERNAL traffic to thwart NSA - Yahoo
NSA! gets! no! free! access!, claims! Mayer!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/18/give_us_some_time_and_well_encrypt_promises_yahoo/

FBI sends memo to US.gov sysadmins: You've been hacked... for the past
YEAR
Claims Anonymous hacktivists have been pilfering info through leaky
backdoors
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/18/anon_us_gov_hack_warning/

GCHQ tracks diplomats' hotel bookings to plant bugs, say leaked docs
And Australia spied on Indonesian prez, in more spies-do-spying guff
outrages
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/18/gchq_royal_concierge_hotel_spying/

TrueCrypt audit project founder: 'We've set our sights high'
Vuln-busting review of opern-source encrypto-tech starts a-rollin'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/18/truecrypt_audit_founder_qanda/

Infosec bods scorn card-swiping Coin over security fears
Deprecated money-moving tech is still secure, insists biz
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/18/coin_scorned/

New York Times hackers linked to Japan Ichitaro attacks
Backdoors targeting government victims
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/18/new_york_times_hackers_linked_to_japan_ichitaro_attacks/


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