Show notes: Risky Business #250

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August 14, 2012 -- 

Felix and Greg's Huawei slidedeck can be found here:

http://phenoelit.org/stuff/Huawei_DEFCON_XX.pdf

THIS WEEK'S NEWS ITEMS:

Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system — RT
http://rt.com/usa/news/stratfor-trapwire-abraxas-wikileaks-313/

Is TrapWire surveillance really spying on Americans? - Technolog on NBCNews.com
http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/trapwire-surveil...

New Gauss Malware, Descended From Flame and Stuxnet, Found On Thousands of PCs in Middle East | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-gauss-malware-descended-flame-and-...

Amazon addresses security exploit after journalist hack | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57488759-83/amazon-addresses-security-e...

Apple responds to journalist's iCloud hack | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57487873-83/apple-responds-to-journalis...

One way to make passwords obsolete -- just keep typing | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57492355-83/one-way-to-make-passwords-o...

DOJ Won't Ask Supreme Court to Review Hacking Case | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/computer-fraud-supreme-court/

Goldman Sachs Programmer Back in Court on New Charges | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/sergey-aleynikov-new-charges/

FTC Dings Google $22.5M in Safari Cookie Flap | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/ftc-google-cookie/

Microsoft Releases Attack Surface Analyzer Tool | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/microsoft-releases-attack-surface-anal...

#684121 - libotr2: Buffer overflows in libotr - Debian Bug report logs
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684121

Anonymous targets ASIO, government websites | ZDNet
http://www.zdnet.com/au/anonymous-targets-asio-government-websites-70000...

Oracle Warns Users About Privilege Escalation Bug in Database Server | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/oracle-warns-users-about-privilege-esc...

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