Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Dropbox left accounts open for four hours

Computerworld Security: June 21, 2011
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Online storage service Dropbox accidentally turned off password authentication
for its 25 million users for four hours Monday, although "much less than 1
percent" of those accounts were accessed during the period, the company said.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517596/0/

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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Teen from LulzSec arrested for UK police site attack
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517598/0/

2. LulzSec launches anti-gov.crusade, takes down U.K. police site
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517599/0/

3. Darlene Storm: Hackers at war: Web Ninjas, Anonymous, LulzSec
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517600/0/

4. Darlene Storm: Can geeks save bitcoin after hellish week?
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517601/0/

5. NSA wants bulletproof smartphone, tablet security
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517602/0/

6. Researchers: Amazon cloud users leave security holes
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517603/0/

7. Sharky: And how much more secure can you get than that?
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517604/0/

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http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517605/0/

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Teen from LulzSec arrested for UK police site attack

U.K. police arrested a 19-year-old on Monday for allegedly attacking a police
website earlier in the day, in what is the first arrest connected with the rogue
hacking group Lulz Security.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517598/0/

LulzSec launches anti-gov.crusade, takes down U.K. police site

A day after a pair of hacker groups promised to step up their attacks against
government Web sites, one of them claimed to have knocked the U.K.'s Serious
Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) offline.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517599/0/

Darlene Storm: Hackers at war: Web Ninjas, Anonymous, LulzSec

Hackers at war, whether your hat is white, gray or black, there has been a call
to arms. 'Team Web Ninjas' from LulzSec Exposed announced Operation Security
while LulzSec and Anonymous launch Operation Anti-Security.

http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517600/0/

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http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/515612/0/

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Darlene Storm: Can geeks save bitcoin after hellish week?

After a nearly $9 million bitcoin virtual heist and an attack on MtGox, the
biggest bitcoin exchange, the value of the virtual currency crashed. There was a
previous half million bitcoin theft and a trojan in the wild is stealing from
bitcoin digital wallets. Then the EFF stopped accepting bitcoins as donations.
After this hellish week, can geeks and hackers save the P2P bitcoin currency?
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517601/0/

NSA wants bulletproof smartphone, tablet security

The National Security Agency, America's high-tech spy agency which also plays a
key role in approving hardware and software for use by the Department of
Defense, wants to be able to outfit military personnel with commercial
smartphones and tablets -- but based on a NSA security design.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517602/0/

Researchers: Amazon cloud users leave security holes

Researchers in Germany have found abundant security problems within Amazon's
cloud-computing services due to its customers either ignoring or forgetting
published security tips.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517603/0/

Sharky: And how much more secure can you get than that?

This pilot fish is asked to code a secure login access system for a new service
at a university, and he does -- but then he points out that it won't provide
actual security.

http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/818816221/517604/0/

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