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The company responsible for the SSH protocol announced a new product called CryptoAuditor that helps prevent data loss across encrypted secure shell, RDP, and SFTP traffic.
An analysis of 24 of the world's largest banks showed that 18 banks contained malicious infections, including Conficker, DNSChanger, and Gameover Zeus, BlackHole Exploit Kit, and Fake AV.
Microsoft today released the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 3.5 Technology Preview, which adds new Return Oriented Programming (ROP) defenses inspired by BlueHat Prize contest finalist Ivan Fratric.
General Alexander will be giving a talk at DEF CON titled "Shared Values, Shared Responsibility," which is outlined as a presentation that will focus on the shared core values between the hacker community and the government’s cyber community.
Zero-day disclosures, new tools and exploits abound in this year's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
Ray – a security researcher and law enforcement consultant – who used a 3D printer to generate copies of handcuff keys that are normally restricted to law enforcement; the Bonowi and Chubb.
Shreeraj Shah, founder of application security vendor Blueinfy Solutions, will lays out the top 10 threats to HTML5 and how developers can combat them.
Austrian security analyst Peter Kleisnner is slated to unveil the first known bootkit for Windows 8 at the upcoming MalCon security conference in Mumbai.
On Aug. 9, Microsoft accidentally released information on the five security updates it is planning to release tomorrow as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday.
Qualys made several announcements including a new QualysGuard Consultant Edition, a revamped user interface for its QualysGuard Security and Compliance SaaS Suite, and availability of the latest version of its Web Application Scanning solution.
FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Black Hat
The idea of teaching someone how to hack almost always generates a negative visceral reaction, because the assumption is that you intend to teach someone how to become a criminal. However, an understanding of hacking no more makes a criminal than an understanding of karate makes someone use the discipline maliciously.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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?
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.
(Video) Barnaby Jack Hacks ATM at Black Hat Las Vegas
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