Police radios will be KILLED soon – yet no one dares say 'Huawei' [Mon Jan 12 2015]

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Google crashes supposedly secure Aviator browser
Goog: 'Your code sucks' ... WhiteHat: 'You sell-out users'
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Docker security 'immature', but not scary says Gartner
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Malware coders adopt DevOps to target smut sites
Linux VXers are aiming below the belt
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Size matters, says Microsoft, as it flops out fat cloud VMs
Azure's instances look gruntier than all cloudy rivals
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SURPRISE: Norks Linux disto has security vulns
Red Star turns into death star
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Paris terror attacks: ISPs face pressure to share MORE data with
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Ministers call for 'greater cooperation' from internet firms
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Mr Cameron goes to Washington for PESKY HACKERS chinwag with Pres Obama
Yo, Barak, how do we tackle naughty Norkers, then?
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Sony post-mortem: Obama lobbies for new legal powers to thwart hackers
Moon on stick proposals include cheaper broadband access
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It's LUNACY, you SWINE! Er, what, security? Moonpig DOT GONE
Plus: Brit MP demands end to email footer HELL
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OS X search tool Spotlight runs roughshod over Mail privacy settings
And we reveal how to fix that
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FBI fingering Norks for Sony hack: The TRUTH – by the NSA's spyboss
Feds warn of 'evil layer cake' of online villainy – yes, really
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Anonymous vows to avenge Charlie Hebdo massacre by blitzing jihadist
sites
Islamic extremists threatened by 72 virgins
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No, the Linux leap second bug WON'T crash the web
Fear the fear, not the second
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Microsoft patch batch pre-alerts now for paying customers ONLY
What's happening on Patch Tuesday? Search us...
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MI5 boss: We NEED to break securo-tech, get 'assistance' from
data-slurp firms
Only brief reference to Charlie Hebdo in pre-planned speech
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Will hottest CES gadgets be HOT TARGETS for hackers?
Latest crop of gadgets come with more security questions
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ASUS router-popping exploit on the loose
Local users become mighty admins
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Post-POODLE, OpenSSL shakes off some fleas
New fixes repair DOS, authentication flaws
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Ukraine PM: Hacktivists? C'mon! Russian spies attacked Gov.DE
Bundestag, Merkel websites blockaded for hours
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Euro Parliament: Time to rethink DRIP, other snoop laws
Report says all blanket data retention violates EU rights
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dLx

Sony boss: Nork megahack won't hurt our bottom line
O RLY, says top securo-bod with calculator
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dLq

Police radios will be KILLED soon – yet no one dares say 'Huawei'
Why 4G is no solution for emergency services
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dLd

Pastebin: The remote backdoor server for the cheap and lazy
Web clipboard should be a mainstay of enterprise blacklists
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dL7

Cryptowall's ransomware's tough layers peeled
Cisco researchers reveal cunning crypto and 64-bit emulation tricks
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dL6

Thunderstrike shocks OS X with firmware bootkit
Permanent backdoor affects all Macs packing Thunderbolt ports
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dL2

Top senator blasts US Homeland Security for leaving cyber-drawbridge
down
$700m a year in taxpayer cash blown on IT defenses
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dKQ

Australia ignores data retention in summer slack-off
Cops 'n' spooks dominate dribble of submissions to Senate inquiry
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dKP

FBI boss: Sony hack was DEFINITELY North Korea, haters gonna hate
Claims Nork IP addresses tell the tale
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dKL

Aw, don't be iDict! Apple kills brute force iCloud cracker
Nefarious activities? I did it 'cos I could – hacker
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dKF

Cyber crims put feet up for Chrimbo: 2014's seasonal retail breaches
fell
The bad news? Attacks are continuing to evolve
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dKA

Burglars' delight no more: Immobilise UK secures property list
Names, addresses, lists of valuables had been at risk
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dKs

It's 2015 and ATMs don't know when a daughterboard is breaking them
Cash machines pay out after USB module gets a call from a Galaxy S4
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dKd

Hackers pilfer $5 MEELLION in BTC from Bitstamp
Exchange promises service - and funny money - will be restored in a day
or two
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dK9

Buffer overflow reported in UEFI EDK1
Firmware patching scramble begins
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dK5

FTC chair worries about IoT privacy in CES speech
Wearables and sensors crowd get a warning about acceptable behaviour
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dK2

Brandis and PwC silent on Xmas Eve metadata quiz
No comment on 36-month metadata retention question and timing of
consultation
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dJR

Morgan Stanley fires rookie for stealing thousands of fat cats'
financial files
Bank lost data on 10 per cent of its most valuable customers
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dJP

Ex-Microsoft Bug Bounty dev forced to decrypt laptop for Paris airport
official
Airside Clouseau in search of something, anything
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dJH

Dev put AWS keys on Github. Then BAD THINGS happened
Fertile fields for Bitcoin yields - with a nasty financial sting
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dJz

Snowden leaks lack context says security studies professor
Slideware is not a good place to start asessing an intelligence program
says OMG Cyber! author Thomas Rid
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dJ7

GoGo in-flight WiFi creates man-in-the-middle diddle
Join the mile-high club by getting screwed with fake certs
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54dbecff/c0cdee0e/2dHZ

HTTPS bent into the next super-cookies by researcher
Even your security can be abused
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THREE MILLION Moonpig accounts exposed by flaw
Custom tat outfit p0wned, hard, by simple API flaw
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Finnish bank takes cricket bat to wave after wave of DDoS varmints
When they were up, they were up, and when they were down...
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Snooker WPA secrets with this Wi-Fi tool
Jammed and canned
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