Super-cookie crumbles: Verizon vows to kill off hated zombie stalkers [ Mon Feb 2 2015]

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*** Security News ***

Can't afford a BMW or Roller? Just HACK its doors open!
Patch inbound for Beemers, Minis and Royces with a clear view of the
sky
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e54

Pirate Bay data now tugged by IP-address-tracking current`
Revived plunder site now rests on Cloudflare's content delivery network
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e51

Google boffins PROVE security warnings don't ... LOOK! A funny cat!
Designing a UI people care about is harder than it looks
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e50

Google PRECOGS to pay researchers before they find software flaws
Bug bounty effort grows a speculative arm after shelling out $1.5m last
year
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e4Y

Snapchat jihadist-fearing peers return with LAST GASP Snoopers' Charter
demand
Counter-Terror and Security Bill hits report stage on Monday
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e4D

Does your mate send smut vids on Facebook? 1. That's a bit weird. 2. It
may be malware
PwC bod warns of fake Flash upgrades doing the rounds
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e4t

Super-cookie crumbles: Verizon vows to kill off hated zombie stalkers
This time opt-out actually means opt-out, we're told
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e4n

Teen whiz exposes WhatsApp profile pic privacy blunder bug
That teddy bear icon was for friends' eyes only
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e4g

UK official LOSES Mark Duggan shooting discs IN THE POST
Nobody's found a politically charged package have they?
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e49

UK watchdog grills big biz: So HOW do you use their 'consumer data'?
Slurp it, trade it, sell it, swap it?
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e3Y

Privacy alert: Outlook for iOS does security STUPIDLY, says dev
Logins stored in cloud, delete button busted
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e3Q

A docket, tweet and selfie can reveal your identity, boffins find
Spanners thrown at metadata privacy wagon
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e3K

We take bots down, but they get up again – you're never going to keep
them down
Dell analysis shows ZeroAccess botnet still slinging out
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e3F

iTunes Connect does developer shuffle
Oh look! I'm running another account!
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e3E

What do China, FBI and UK have in common? All three want backdoors in
Western technology
'I need your clothes, bootloaders and CPU cycles'
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e3s

Snowden reveals LEVITATION technique of Canada's spies
If you MUST build naughty spy tool... it's, er, pretty sweet
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e3h

IBM punts cryptotastic cloudy ID verification services
Foil identity thieves – put your data on a giant floating target
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e3b

Top smut site Flashes visitors, leaves behind nasty virus
Malvertising hits xHamster thanks to recent Adobe 0-day
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e2Z

Mozilla dusts off old servers, lights up Tor relays
Worst outcome means 50 percent capacity hit
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e2Q

Researcher says Aussie spooks help code Five Eyes mega malware
QWERTY keylogger code alleged to name Defence Signals Directorate
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e2K

Scouts take down database due to 'security vulnerabilities'
Full security audit for Compass database
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e2h

I ain't afraid of no GHOST – securo-bods
Serious – but it's no Heartbleed
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e2e

Regin super-malware has Five Eyes fingerprints all over it says
Kaspersky
Keylogger plugin built on source code known to come from spookhauses
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e1W

Oz spooks hack, try to fry Middle East servers – report
Homebrew malware dropped on foreign state systems
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e1M

'Boozed up' US drone spook CRASHED UFO into US White House
Geospatial intelligence man said to have fallen asleep at the wireless
wheel
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e1F

'Super-secure' BlackPhone pwned by super-silly txt msg bug
People always talk about your reputation ... Just be good to free()
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e1C

FUMBLE! NFL app drops privacy ball just before Super Bowl Sunday
Leaks personal data faster than a lineman's brain
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e1A

BOO! Grave remote-code exec flaw in GNU C Library TERRIFIES Linux
When there's something strange in your gethostbyname, who y'gonna call?
Ghostbusters
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e1z

FTC to Internet of Stuff: Security, motherf****r, do you speak it?
No new laws yet – emphasis on the word yet
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e1y

Another day, yet another emergency Adobe Flash patch. Because that's
how we live now
Update your plugin now before someone pwns your PC
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e1x

Anonymous: Snap on that Guy Fawkes mask, we're marching against child
sex abuse
'Member when we took on Scientology with #Chanology?
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e1p

Meat puppet security sucks... let machines find your flaws
Darktrace: No, no, customers, you've got security all wrong
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e1j

Keylogger: Somebody STOP ME! Oh hang on, I just did
We use 'dark arts' knowledge for good - says company man
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e1c

Facebook: Oi, Lizard Squad – we can take down our own site, ta
#OMG #Allourownfault #doh! #facebookdown
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e1a

Apple patch shields Macs from Thunderstrike
But attack vector may stay open for next evil maid
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e12

Jellybean upgrade too hard for Choc Factory, but not for YOU
Patching WebKit would be unsafe, Google tells 960 million users
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e0Z

Photons link arms on chip to hasten march of quantum crypto
Cheap, fast, entangled photons for fun and profit
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e0U

P0wning for the fjords: Malware turns drones into DEAD PARROT
Parrot AR drones susceptible to flying firmware footling
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e0T

Some Androids can be HOSED by WiFi Direct vuln
Google intransigence or publicity vuln?
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e0Q

Secret Service on alert after drone CRASHES into White House
Red-faced government employee owns up
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e0M

Brits need chutzpah to copy Israeli cyberspies' tech creche – ex-spooks
GCHQ needs culture change first
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e0w

Symantec sources claim exec teams in place by April Fools' Day
Have you heard the one about the Veritas brand being dug up?
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e0n

Lizard Squad threatens Malaysia Airlines with data dump: We DID TOO
hack your site
Carrier: PLEASE. It was just a defacement, skiddies...
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e0e

Hoaxer posing as GCHQ boss prank-calls PM Cameron
Hey guys! Who is this chap? LOL
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/54f79c7f/1573b69a/2e07


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