September 28, 2012

• Cryptology ePrint Archive [preprints]: new articles this week.

• Data breach at IEEE.org: 100k plaintext passwords. (2012, September 25). IEEE log. [Read - " Among . . .  compromised users are Apple, Google, IBM, Oracle and Samsung employees, as well as researchers from NASA, Stanford and many other places."]

• Deloitte. (2012, September 11). 2012 DTTL global financial services industry security study. [Read]

• Dorling, P. (2012, September 27). US calls Assange ‘enemy of the state’. Sydney Morning Herald. [Read / More: Bloomberg / NBC  / CNET / USAF document via Wikileaks]

• Ducklin, P. (2012, September 26). Are Android phones facing a remote-wipe hacking pandemic? Naked Security. [Read]

• Johnson, C. (2012, September 25). National security experts go rogue for ‘drone smackdown’. NPR. [Read / Listen / More from Brookings]

• Kravets, D. (2012, September 27). Justice Department’s warrantless spying increased 600 percent in decade. Wired. [Read / More]

• Krebs, B. (2012, September 26). Chinese hackers blamed for intrusion at energy industry giant Telvent. Krebs on Security. [Read]

• Love, J. (2012, September 18). USPTO blocks web access to “political / activist groups” including KEI, ACLU, EFF, Public Citizen, Redstate, Daily KOS. Knowledge Ecology International. [Read]

• Nakashima, E. (2012, September 21). Iran blamed for cyberattacks on U.S. banks and companies. Washington Post. [Read - RE: Lieberman accusations / More / More]

• Network Security- new issue [full text]:

• Anonymous hacks FBI laptop. Or maybe not
• Middle East oil firms hit by massive attacks
• Paranoid Android: just how insecure is the most popular mobile platform? 
• The promise of managed security services
• Seek and destroy [RE: end-of-life equipment]
• Another major Java panic
• New research institute to study threats

• Rashid, F. Y. (2012, September 27). Adobe revoking code signing certificate used to sign malware. SecurityWeek. [Read]

• Rieger, F. , & Suarez, D. (2012, September 24). Swarming killing machines. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. [Read - Suarez: "I view drone warfare as the kinetic cousin of cyber warfare, in that they are both radically new, low-cost, low-risk methods of waging conflict."]

• Sanchez, J. (2012, September 24). Our dishonest debate over NSA spying. The Hill. [Read - Also this week: Tech companies warn privacy rules will kill innovation]

• Shane, S. (2012, September 26). Cyberwarfare emerges from the shadows for public discussion by U.S. officials. New York Times. [Read]

• Storm, D. (2012, September 25). Another critical Java vulnerability puts 1 billion users at risk. Computerworld. [Read - also this week: After hack, Bitcoin exchange comes back online]

• Tehan, R. (2012, September 11). Cybersecurity: Authoritative reports and resources [UPDATED - Congressional Research Service]. [Read]

• United States. Federal Trade Commission. (2012, September 25). FTC halts computer spying. [Read - RE: spyware installed by rent-to-own firms].

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