http://it.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2012, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2012-02-12T05:52:26+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 hourly http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://it.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/TL9AGUsbXHA/tools-techniques-procedures-of-the-rsa-hackers-revealed An anonymous reader writes "Details of the tools, techniques and procedures used by the hackers behind the RSA security breach have been revealed in a research paper (PDF) published by Australian IT security company Command Five. The paper also, for the first time, explains links between the RSA hack and other major targeted attacks. This paper is a vendor-neutral must-read for any network defenders concerned by the hype surrounding 'Advanced Persistent Threats.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Tools%2C+Techniques%2C+Procedures+of+the+RSA+Hackers+Revealed%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FAwKdt4"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F12%2F0331208%2Ftools-techniques-procedures-of-the-rsa-hackers-revealed%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/12/0331208/tools-techniques-procedures-of-the-rsa-hackers-revealed?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/12/0331208/tools-techniques-procedures-of-the-rsa-hackers-revealed?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UxrRFgJnxX1AzBbQxO0I9wgEYMw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UxrRFgJnxX1AzBbQxO0I9wgEYMw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UxrRFgJnxX1AzBbQxO0I9wgEYMw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UxrRFgJnxX1AzBbQxO0I9wgEYMw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/TL9AGUsbXHA" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-12T05:51:00+00:00 botnet more-links-than-a-sausage-factory it 0,0,0,0,0,0,0 http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/12/0331208/tools-techniques-procedures-of-the-rsa-hackers-revealed?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/UJGAkuAvLaI/looking-for-love-finding-privacy-violations itwbennett writes "When you sign up for online dating, there's a certain amount of information you expect to give up, like whether or not your weight is proportional to your height. But you probably don't expect that your profile will remain online long after you stop subscribing to the service. In some cases your photo can be found even after being deleted from the index, according to the electronic frontier foundation (EFF), which identified six major security weaknesses in online dating sites."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Looking+For+Love%3B+Finding+Privacy+Violations%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwPNHK0"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F12%2F026243%2Flooking-for-love-finding-privacy-violations%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/12/026243/looking-for-love-finding-privacy-violations?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/12/026243/looking-for-love-finding-privacy-violations?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NT1uyPgFXnCtSrhwmN0Z6lkzEvw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NT1uyPgFXnCtSrhwmN0Z6lkzEvw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NT1uyPgFXnCtSrhwmN0Z6lkzEvw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NT1uyPgFXnCtSrhwmN0Z6lkzEvw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/UJGAkuAvLaI" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-12T02:54:00+00:00 eff my-profile's-all-lies-anyhow yro 40 40,36,32,25,9,6,2 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/12/026243/looking-for-love-finding-privacy-violations?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/GfV1RqwO3gM/tms9918a-retro-video-chip-reimplemented-in-fpga-with-vga-out acadiel writes "Matthew H from the AtariAge.com TI-99/4A forum has finalized a design of a TMS 9918A replacement (with VGA out) for classic computer systems such as the ColecoVision, TI-99/4A, SpectraVision, MSX1, SpectraVision 128, and Tomy Tutor Home computers. This hardware project replaces the native video controller on these classic systems and enables them to have VGA output for the first time." (It's just under $100 to order one.)<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=TMS9918A+Retro+Video+Chip+Reimplemented+In+FPGA%2C+With+VGA+Out%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fzea7eq"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F11%2F2035226%2Ftms9918a-retro-video-chip-reimplemented-in-fpga-with-vga-out%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/11/2035226/tms9918a-retro-video-chip-reimplemented-in-fpga-with-vga-out?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/11/2035226/tms9918a-retro-video-chip-reimplemented-in-fpga-with-vga-out?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7IULV1YB27giGnwFdbwVmbpctmk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7IULV1YB27giGnwFdbwVmbpctmk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7IULV1YB27giGnwFdbwVmbpctmk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7IULV1YB27giGnwFdbwVmbpctmk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/GfV1RqwO3gM" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-11T20:40:00+00:00 graphics disintergrated hardware 84 84,83,58,49,17,15,9 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/11/2035226/tms9918a-retro-video-chip-reimplemented-in-fpga-with-vga-out?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/mFzkz2UoHCc/bad-guys-use-open-source-too First time accepted submitter colinneagle writes "Open source has been so successful in giving us software like Linux, Apache, Hadoop, etc., why wouldn't the open source method work with other types of software? Probably no one expected that the criminals behind vast malware trojans would adopt open source methods to make their malware more dangerous, but they have. According to this report from Seculert Research, the makers of Citadel, a variant of the Zeus Trojan are using open source models to hone their code and make the Trojan more dangerous."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Bad+Guys+Use+Open+Source%2C+Too%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FA3XhQ7"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F11%2F1645209%2Fbad-guys-use-open-source-too%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/11/1645209/bad-guys-use-open-source-too?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/11/1645209/bad-guys-use-open-source-too?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yj103XURmi15YVA-xnQraVMye_U/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yj103XURmi15YVA-xnQraVMye_U/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yj103XURmi15YVA-xnQraVMye_U/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yj103XURmi15YVA-xnQraVMye_U/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/mFzkz2UoHCc" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-11T16:45:00+00:00 os malice-aforethought technology 79 79,77,53,46,22,17,14 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/11/1645209/bad-guys-use-open-source-too?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/T7LCn-3-1sw/fcc-maps-the-3g-wasteland-of-the-western-us alphadogg writes "The Federal Communications Commission has released a map showing which counties across the U.S. lacked coverage from either 3G or 4G networks and found that wide swaths of the western half of the country were 3G wastelands, particularly in mountainous states such as Idaho and Nevada. This isn't particularly surprising since it's much more difficult for carriers to afford building out mobile data networks in sparsely populated mountainous regions, but it does underscore how large stretches of the United States lack access to mobile data services that people in the Northeast, South and Midwest now take for granted."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=FCC+Maps+the+3G+Wasteland+Of+the+Western+US%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fx6wNg4"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F10%2F2154225%2Ffcc-maps-the-3g-wasteland-of-the-western-us%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/2154225/fcc-maps-the-3g-wasteland-of-the-western-us?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/2154225/fcc-maps-the-3g-wasteland-of-the-western-us?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y20xuBHZlSuMQRB6fulBcyjBV1U/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y20xuBHZlSuMQRB6fulBcyjBV1U/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y20xuBHZlSuMQRB6fulBcyjBV1U/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y20xuBHZlSuMQRB6fulBcyjBV1U/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/T7LCn-3-1sw" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-10T22:41:00+00:00 wireless desires-infinite-resources-scarce mobile 163 163,161,124,103,36,20,13 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/2154225/fcc-maps-the-3g-wasteland-of-the-western-us?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/tcLC2sKNBvA/tor-tests-undetectably-encrypted-connections-in-iran Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Ahead of the anniversary of Iran's revolution, the country's government has locked down its already-censored Internet, blocking access to many services and in some cases cutting off all encrypted traffic on the Web of the kind used by secure email, social networking and banking sites. In response, the information-freedom-focused Tor Project is testing a new tool it's calling 'obfsproxy,' or obfuscated proxy, which aims to make SSL or TLS traffic appear to be unencrypted traffic like HTTP or instant messaging data. While the tool currently only disguises SSL as the SOCKS protocol, in future versions it will aim to disguise encrypted traffic as any protocol the user chooses. Tor executive director Andrew Lewman says the idea is to 'make your Ferrari look like a Toyota by putting an actual Toyota shell over the Ferrari.'" Reader bonch adds: "A thread on Hacker News provides first-hand accounts as well as workarounds."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Tor+Tests+Undetectably+Encrypted+Connections+In+Iran%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FzzAZQd"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F10%2F1838207%2Ftor-tests-undetectably-encrypted-connections-in-iran%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1838207/tor-tests-undetectably-encrypted-connections-in-iran?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1838207/tor-tests-undetectably-encrypted-connections-in-iran?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tkdsEwNxHD7Mh7rcdkSXHka5aK0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tkdsEwNxHD7Mh7rcdkSXHka5aK0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tkdsEwNxHD7Mh7rcdkSXHka5aK0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tkdsEwNxHD7Mh7rcdkSXHka5aK0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/tcLC2sKNBvA" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-10T18:56:00+00:00 censorship great-song-from-flock-of-seagulls yro 147 147,143,105,84,29,18,14 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1838207/tor-tests-undetectably-encrypted-connections-in-iran?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/3AxWzXF1Kus/after-rewrites-google-wallet-still-has-holes itwbennett writes "A report from viaForensics makes clear that, despite efforts by Google to tighten up security after a poor evaluation in December, Google Wallet still stores data in too many places and could make it available too easily to be a secure way to make purchases using smartphones."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=After+Rewrites%2C+Google+Wallet+Still+Has+Holes%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FABFkOW"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F10%2F1650246%2Fafter-rewrites-google-wallet-still-has-holes%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1650246/after-rewrites-google-wallet-still-has-holes?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1650246/after-rewrites-google-wallet-still-has-holes?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hFOqnaS-RZOaX82zRfRr4T4puTA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hFOqnaS-RZOaX82zRfRr4T4puTA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hFOqnaS-RZOaX82zRfRr4T4puTA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hFOqnaS-RZOaX82zRfRr4T4puTA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/3AxWzXF1Kus" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2012-02-10T17:33:00+00:00 google leaking-like-a-sieve technology 80 80,74,52,43,13,5,3 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1650246/after-rewrites-google-wallet-still-has-holes?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/DqvLNtkfHUo/google-offering-cash-for-your-cache pigrabbitbear writes "The gradual transformation of the web into an ultra-personalized, corporate-owned social space in the cloud has raised more than a few legitimate concerns about data privacy. Google, for obvious reasons, has always been one of the top cheerleaders for this metamorphosis. Touting a fresh new privacy policy that allows data about you from all of their services to coalesce, they've recently been particularly bullish about rendering that increasingly realistic digital portrait of you that lies stuffed away in their servers. It has led us again to question: How much are we comfortable with our machines knowing about us? How much is our privacy really worth? With their new program, Google is now asking those questions quite directly, and preceding them with dollar signs. Are we all on the verge of making our own information age Faustian bargains?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Google+Offering+Cash+For+Your+Cache%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FAvNGej"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F10%2F0147212%2Fgoogle-offering-cash-for-your-cache%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/0147212/google-offering-cash-for-your-cache?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/0147212/google-offering-cash-for-your-cache?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Kzxj1Xxacgy-BFwQ19mSuIRfUN4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Kzxj1Xxacgy-BFwQ19mSuIRfUN4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Kzxj1Xxacgy-BFwQ19mSuIRfUN4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Kzxj1Xxacgy-BFwQ19mSuIRfUN4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/DqvLNtkfHUo" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2012-02-10T05:55:00+00:00 google have-a-couple-bucks technology 149 149,146,113,87,29,24,17 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/0147212/google-offering-cash-for-your-cache?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/eGPZTrAHOlQ/hacked-syrian-officials-used-12345-as-email-password Nominei writes "The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that the Syrian President, aides and staffers had their email hacked by Anonymous, who leaked hundreds of emails online. Reportedly, many of the accounts used the password '12345' (which their IT department probably warned them to change when the accounts got set up, of course)."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Hacked+Syrian+Officials+Used+'12345'+As+Email+Password%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyKj25n"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fidle.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F10%2F0018220%2Fhacked-syrian-officials-used-12345-as-email-password%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/0018220/hacked-syrian-officials-used-12345-as-email-password?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/0018220/hacked-syrian-officials-used-12345-as-email-password?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PuDnjIw_-BaRO79yh5weUokiHzk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PuDnjIw_-BaRO79yh5weUokiHzk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PuDnjIw_-BaRO79yh5weUokiHzk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PuDnjIw_-BaRO79yh5weUokiHzk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/eGPZTrAHOlQ" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2012-02-10T03:25:00+00:00 government I've-got-the-same-combination-on-my-luggage idle 231 231,222,176,137,52,38,26 http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/0018220/hacked-syrian-officials-used-12345-as-email-password?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/jcJ5mm7qNK0/the-gradual-death-of-the-brick-and-mortar-tech-store Cutting_Crew writes "As we all know brick and mortar stores have been closing left and right recently. We had CompUSA, Borders and Circuit City all close their doors within the last 4 years. According to an article on Forbes.com, it is spelled out pretty clearly why Best Buy is next in line to shut its doors for good. Some of the reasons highlighted include a 40% drop is Best Buy stock in 2011, lack of vision regarding their online services, management too concerned with store sales instead of margins and blatant disregard for quality customer service."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+Gradual+Death+of+the+Brick+and+Mortar+Tech+Store%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwdPByT"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F09%2F2320247%2Fthe-gradual-death-of-the-brick-and-mortar-tech-store%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/2320247/the-gradual-death-of-the-brick-and-mortar-tech-store?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/2320247/the-gradual-death-of-the-brick-and-mortar-tech-store?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BElHCXIZnLWuBhNb6lWze0esmrU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BElHCXIZnLWuBhNb6lWze0esmrU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BElHCXIZnLWuBhNb6lWze0esmrU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BElHCXIZnLWuBhNb6lWze0esmrU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/jcJ5mm7qNK0" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2012-02-10T00:33:00+00:00 business say-hello-to-the-dodo it 477 477,475,379,305,110,61,42 http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/2320247/the-gradual-death-of-the-brick-and-mortar-tech-store?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/0R-SRl7UqO8/sponsor-a-valve-on-colossus mikejuk writes "The UK's National Museum of Computing has come up with a novel idea to raise funds for its new gallery for its rebuilt Colossus computer &mdash; you can sponsor a valve. All you have to do is buy a small area in a picture of Colossus (at &pound;0.1 per pixel &mdash; min &pound;10), upload a picture to occupy the space, set a URL and pay using PayPal."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Sponsor+a+Valve+On+Colossus%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyVuUWn"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F09%2F1629259%2Fsponsor-a-valve-on-colossus%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/1629259/sponsor-a-valve-on-colossus?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/1629259/sponsor-a-valve-on-colossus?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HxKzX2W-p4cWyDjGcRYOG9khIJQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HxKzX2W-p4cWyDjGcRYOG9khIJQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HxKzX2W-p4cWyDjGcRYOG9khIJQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HxKzX2W-p4cWyDjGcRYOG9khIJQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/0R-SRl7UqO8" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-09T17:01:00+00:00 encryption don't-worry-they-have-tubes-too hardware 30 30,28,18,14,7,3,3 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/1629259/sponsor-a-valve-on-colossus?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/62T7gdUvv2o/pasadena-police-encrypt-deny-access-to-police-radio An anonymous reader writes "There is media (but not public?) outcry over the Pasadena, CA police switch from analog radio that can be picked up by scanners to encrypted digital radio that cannot. 'On Friday, Pasadena police Lt. Phlunte Riddle said the department was unsure whether it could accommodate the media with digital scanners. Riddle said the greatest concern remains officer safety. "People who do bank robberies use scanners, and Radio Shack sells these things cheap," Riddle said. "We just had a robbery today on Hill Avenue and Washington Boulevard," Riddle said. "The last thing I want to do is to have the helicopter or the officers set up on the street and the criminals have a scanner and know where our officers are." Just prior to the switch over, city staffers said they would look into granting access to police radio chatter, most likely by loaning media outlets a scanner capable of picking up the secure signal.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Pasadena+Police+Encrypt%2C+Deny+Access+To+Police+Radio%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxRm6Vm"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F08%2F0053237%2Fpasadena-police-encrypt-deny-access-to-police-radio%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/08/0053237/pasadena-police-encrypt-deny-access-to-police-radio?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/08/0053237/pasadena-police-encrypt-deny-access-to-police-radio?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fpm6gRLZA-4zsCLShOAOMkcFZ6s/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fpm6gRLZA-4zsCLShOAOMkcFZ6s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fpm6gRLZA-4zsCLShOAOMkcFZ6s/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fpm6gRLZA-4zsCLShOAOMkcFZ6s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/62T7gdUvv2o" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-02-08T05:15:00+00:00 encryption can't-broadcast-where-their-combat-UAVs-are news 486 486,484,380,304,93,44,27 http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/08/0053237/pasadena-police-encrypt-deny-access-to-police-radio?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/miA0Fvfa42g/proposed-law-would-give-dhs-power-over-privately-owned-it-infrastructure CelticWhisper writes "H.R. 3674, the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness Act (PRECISE Act), would allow the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to require improved security practices from those businesses managing systems whose disruption could prove detrimental to critical life-sustaining or national-security initiatives." As the article points out, this is just "one of 30 or so such bills currently percolating on the Hill."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Proposed+Law+Would+Give+DHS+Power+Over+Privately+Owned+IT+Infrastructure%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FzUuuc6"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F1637238%2Fproposed-law-would-give-dhs-power-over-privately-owned-it-infrastructure%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1637238/proposed-law-would-give-dhs-power-over-privately-owned-it-infrastructure?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1637238/proposed-law-would-give-dhs-power-over-privately-owned-it-infrastructure?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Q97zUeRTGvePhLH9W_AV_pLfdQ8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Q97zUeRTGvePhLH9W_AV_pLfdQ8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Q97zUeRTGvePhLH9W_AV_pLfdQ8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Q97zUeRTGvePhLH9W_AV_pLfdQ8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/miA0Fvfa42g" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-07T17:17:00+00:00 business for-great-justice politics 299 299,297,235,207,53,37,21 http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1637238/proposed-law-would-give-dhs-power-over-privately-owned-it-infrastructure?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/UKGNT_D_Eog/no-more-ssl-revocation-checking-for-chrome New submitter mwehle writes with this bit from Ars Technica: "Google's Chrome browser will stop relying on a decades-old method for ensuring secure sockets layer certificates are valid after one of the company's top engineers compared it to seat belts that break when they are needed most. The browser will stop querying CRL, or certificate revocation lists, and databases that rely on OCSP, or online certificate status protocol, Google researcher Adam Langley said in a blog post published on Sunday. He said the services, which browsers are supposed to query before trusting a credential for an SSL-protected address, don't make end users safer because Chrome and most other browsers establish the connection even when the services aren't able to ensure a certificate hasn't been tampered with."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=No+More+SSL+Revocation+Checking+For+Chrome%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxClarp"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F159215%2Fno-more-ssl-revocation-checking-for-chrome%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/159215/no-more-ssl-revocation-checking-for-chrome?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/159215/no-more-ssl-revocation-checking-for-chrome?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KchobNLEzVVaLxRWY4P4m59REIE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KchobNLEzVVaLxRWY4P4m59REIE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KchobNLEzVVaLxRWY4P4m59REIE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KchobNLEzVVaLxRWY4P4m59REIE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/UKGNT_D_Eog" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-07T16:35:00+00:00 chrome substitute-my-own technology 152 152,151,112,101,40,25,16 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/159215/no-more-ssl-revocation-checking-for-chrome?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/UKTkKqh6CPg/cops-set-up-extortion-sting-on-symantecs-source-code-thieves Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Hackers linked with Anonymous leaked another 1.26 gigabytes of Symantec's data Monday night, what they say is the source code company's PCAnywhere program. More interestingly, also posted a long private email conversation that seems to show a Symantec exec offering the hackers $50,000 to not leak the company's data and to publicly state they had lied about obtaining it. Symantec has responded by revealing that in fact, the $50,000 offer had been a ruse, and the 'Symantec exec' was actually a law enforcement agent trying to trace the hackers. It adds that all the information the hackers have released, including a 2006 version of Norton Internet Security, is outdated and poses no threat to the company or its customers. Symantec says the Anonymous hackers began attempting to extort money from the company in mid-January, and it responded by contacting law enforcement, though it won't comment on the results of the fake payoff sting while the investigation is still ongoing."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Cops+Set+Up+Extortion+Sting+On+Symantec's+Source+Code+Thieves%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fx9H9Cy"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F149205%2Fcops-set-up-extortion-sting-on-symantecs-source-code-thieves%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/149205/cops-set-up-extortion-sting-on-symantecs-source-code-thieves?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/149205/cops-set-up-extortion-sting-on-symantecs-source-code-thieves?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dJ5iqos8rANipkDj6WnLcuXw7AY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dJ5iqos8rANipkDj6WnLcuXw7AY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dJ5iqos8rANipkDj6WnLcuXw7AY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dJ5iqos8rANipkDj6WnLcuXw7AY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/UKTkKqh6CPg" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-07T15:11:00+00:00 crime don't-worry-now-we're-telling-the-truth it 167 167,163,123,92,47,26,17 http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/149205/cops-set-up-extortion-sting-on-symantecs-source-code-thieves?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Search Slashdot stories query http://it.slashdot.org/search.pl