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Makes Urgent Detection of SQL Injection and XSS Vulnerabilities at Scale a Reality
Today at Black Hat DC, Microsoft is releasing a beta version of Attack Surface Analyzer, a new (and free!) tool designed to help assess the security of applications.
Qualys announced a free online SSL test, which examines a Web site’s SSL certificate and performs a configuration analysis to detect configuration weaknesses and performance issues.
Photos from Black Hat ATM Hacking Demonstration by Barnaby Jack of IOActive today at Black Hat USA
Today at Black Hat USA 2010 in Las Vegas, Qualys will unveil an open source web application fingerprinting engine

FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Black Hat

Robert Vamosi's picture
Drawing parallels with the SCADA industry, researcher Jay Radcliffe gave a personal account of his experience of having Type 1 diabetes and how various devices he uses control his diabetes could be manipulated by "evil doers" at this week's Black Hat Conference.
Mike Lennon's picture
Las Vegas is about to transform into Hackertown, USA. This week, thousands of hackers from across the country and around the world will assemble in Las Vegas for a series of hacker conferences, including the most anticipated and hottest conference of the year, Black Hat USA 2011.
Noa Bar-Yosef's picture
Online gambling sites face security challenges from a number of different sources. First, there’s the external hacker, who at his own convenience – from his home, a cafe or on the road – can launch attacks in attempt to steal sensitive data, raise havoc or commit fraud.
Robert Vamosi's picture
In the hours proceeding the annual Hack In The Box conference in Amsterdam, researcher Don Bailey visited Boston, Afghanistan, Libya, and at the White House. Or so his tracking device reported...
Matt Hines's picture
Why is Julian Assange getting all the ethical hacking harshing? Isn’t this Jeff Moss inviting similar rule-breaking, convention-smashing mayhem into our country, nay the world, by inviting hackers to come to these events and tell everyone how to break into important stuff?
Mike Lennon's picture
Enjoy this selection of top picks for 2010, listed in no particular order. Happy New Year!
Samy Kamkar demonstrates how to extract extremely accurate geo-location information from a Web browser, while not using any IP geo-location data.

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