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Thursday, April 05, 2012
Microsoft acquires 20 new Windows security ideas for $13,400 each $268,000 BlueHat Prize contest 'cheap way to get someone else to innovate,' says expert
Thursday, March 15, 2012
We need good code, cryptographer says BLACK HAT EUROPE Cryptography pioneer Whitfield Diffie says better code is safer. It's also too expensive
Monday, September 13, 2010
Microsoft helps Adobe block PDF zero-day exploit The malware, which uses a dynamic link library, can reportedly be mitigated by turning on Address Space Layout Randomization and Data Execution Prevention. Microsoft Corp. says its enhanced migration experience toolkit will turn on these functions
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Black Hat too commercial for you? As network security experts converge on Las Vegas to attend the Black Hat and DefCon conference, some experts are opting for a smaller event, known as Security B-Sides, which one executive with Astaro GmbH says has more of a frat house feel and whose priority is not lead generation for vendors
Friday, July 23, 2010
Kraken GSM-cracking software is released The A5/1 Security Project has finished developing software that could be used to listen in on cellular phone conversations over the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks. The project leader plans to discuss this at the Black Hat security conference
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Microsoft slates June update to block IE8 abuse At Black Hat Europe, researchers showed how the cross-site scripting filter in Internet Explorer 8 beta could be used to abuse services such as Google and Twitter. Microsoft Corp. plans to update its filter 
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Researcher shows new clickjacking methods At the Black Hat Security conference in Barcelona, security consultant Paul Stone revealed four new methods, including one that uses the drag and drop API in Web browsers to trick users into dragging items on to Web pages.
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Conficker talk sanitized at Black Hat to protect investigation The chief security officer of F-Secure refused to take questions after his presentation because the perpetrators of the worm are still at large
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Security consequences mean virtualization will cost you more, Black Hat speaker says Researchers detail rootkits for NIC cards and Cisco's IOS routers, how to hack OSX, and more at the annual security conference
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Hacker helper or IT hero? Cisco Systems Inc. would have the world believe that security researcher Michael Lynn is a bad guy. Late last month at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Lynn outlined a method of attack on Cisco routers that could allow hackers to take control of unpatched Cisco boxes.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Stepping in front of the freight train Not many of us would choose to step in front of a freight train going at full speed, but last month at the Black Hat Briefings conference in Las Vegas a gentleman by the name of Michael Lynn did more or less just that.
Tuesday, July 17, 2001
Decoy PCs trick hackers into teaching security For the best security, hack the hackers, suggest security experts who have spent several months watching malicious intruders break into disguised decoy systems on the Internet.
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