Zimmermann slams Cameron’s ‘absurd’ plans for crypto ban [Mon Feb 9 2015]

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Samsung listens in to EVERYTHING you say to your smart tellie
Third parties access your utterances in the name of better speech
recognition
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2ea6

Fraudsters make bank as exec wires $17 MEELLION to China
Three massive payments follow phishing scam
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2ea5

Shy, retiring British spies come out as MEGA HACKERS
UK gov seeks YOUR views on oxymoronic 'equipment interference code'
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e9W

Phishers, scammers pile into worried Anthem customers in FRAUD FRENZY
Also: here come the lawsuits
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e9v

Intuit halts TurboTax filings after states spot mass tax fraud scheme
Identity thieves skimming gov't cash via bogus tax returns
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e9s

Uber hits PANIC BUTTON after India threatens to BAN dial-a-car firm
New app version offers direct line to cops – IF it's running
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e9r

Four senators call for federal probes into Verizon 'supercookies'
Democrats call in the FTC and FCC and threaten new laws
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e9m

Start stockpiling tinned beans and ammo: This malware will end
civilisation
*YAWN* A tale of 3 overhyped SSL vulns
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e95

Fancybox WordPress plugin reveals zero day affecting thousands
To the patch-o-tron, admins!
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e8W

Internet lobs $$$s at dev of crucial GPG tool after he runs short of
cash
Raises $150,000 as netizens rush to back encryption and privacy
software
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e8G

Exit Interview: Sony Pics co-chair Amy Pascal flees 'Nork' hack studio
Her contract ends after server raid, Kim Jong Un-ribbing movie
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e8D

Still using Adobe Flash? Oh well, get updating: 15 hijack flaws patched
At least one is already being exploited – and more will targeted
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e8B

Japan's death threat hacker collared ... BY A CAT
8 years' porridge for moggy malware missive man
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e8h

APT devs are LOUSY coders, says Sophos
Fear crims who invest in code for dough, not those who put themselves
on show
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e81

Anthem, America's second biggest health insurer, HACKED: Millions hit
by breach
Social security numbers, employment records, the lot
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e7X

NSA lays out its reforms post-Snowden (they can fit on back of a stamp)
Meanwhile, agency private chief describes her job as 'crazy'
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e7W

'Ruskie' malware pwns iOS 7
Worse fate for jailbreaks
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e7R

Siemens sighs: SCADA bugs abound
Wimax network kit vulnerable
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e7P

NSA raided hackers' troves of stolen data: report
At last government outsources to proper experts at taxpayer-friendly
price of free
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e7N

Forget Norks, Russian hackers are in Sony Pictures' servers – claim
Infosec bod reckons he has seen internal documents not yet leaked by
studio ransackers
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e7H

Sony Pictures claims 'Nork mega-hack attack' cost it just $15 million
Chump change, studio says
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e7G

Sage Pay anti-POODLE upgrade REDUCED security - briefly
Secure payments on Win XP (snigger) bared to world+dog, argue
securo-bods
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e7h

Wanted: Brit Facebook and Twitter trolls for counter-jihad psyops
Join the Army and see... er, your own keyboard
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e7a

RSA boss packs his fishing rod and heads for the hills
No big bucks from EMC acquisition or Snowden shenanigans
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e77

O2 notifies data cops 'for courtesy' ... AFTER El Reg intervenes in
email phish dustup
Suggests customers must have lost their own data
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e75

Turing notes found warming Bletchley Park's leaky ceilings
Chilly codebreakers used TOP SECRET documents to stop draughts
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e6Z

Germany's BND muscles in on metadata mass surveillance
Vacuumed info flows into NSA-wannabe branch offices
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e6Y

Microsoft blunts hooks of nasty Internet Explorer phishing flaw
Hacker drops policy bypass disclosure
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e6X

Attackers sling recent Flash 0day through 1800 domains
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e6W

Avast there: MEELLIONS of Androiders scuttled by 'adware' game app
'Software flung naughty adverts at screens'
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e6F

Zimmermann slams Cameron's 'absurd' plans for crypto ban
GCHQ has 'never had it so good' claims privacy pioneer
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e6k

Dating site PAYS cracker for stealing creds
Cheque arrives from Russia with love after fraudster failed in attempt
to sell filched logins
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e67

Ransomware 2.0 'crypts website databases – until victims pay up
File-integrity monitoring of scripts is a key defence
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e62

DARPA: We KNOW WHO YOU ARE... by the WAY you MOVE your MOUSE
US crazytech unit backs behaviour biometrics study
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e61

Target carders turn their attention to parking lots
Third car park company popped since December
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e5U

Enough is ENOUGH: It's time to flush Flash back to where it came from –
Hell
Plugin's supporters are the antivaxxers of the internet
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e5N

New claim: D-Link router exposes unprotected config controls to web –
DNS hijackers, ahoy!
Zero-day exploit code already published
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e5H

Trouble comes in threes: Yet ANOTHER Flash 0-day vuln patch looming
Even Firefox users are at risk (plus IE folk, but that goes without
saying)
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e5E

Fake hottie hackers flung info-slurping malware at Syrian opposition –
FireEye
Love RAT heartbreak Skype chat booby trap
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e5m

Atlassian HipChat service popped
Encrypted, salted passwords a tough nut to crack
http://go.reg.cx/ml/9e7f3/5500d6ff/ea7bd9b0/2e59


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