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Cheat Sheet: SEO
Cheat Sheet If you overload a site with certain keywords and phrases then this can be construed as a method of "black hat" SEO known as keyword stuffing. Black hat? Other examples... [11 Sep 2008]
Overview of Certification Systems: X.509, PKIX, CA, PGP & SKIP
White Paper The paper was also presented by invitation at the Black Hat Conference. To be secure, Internet communications need both encryption and digital certification - for example, for e-commerce and Internet... [03 Jul 2008]
Know Your Enemy: A Forensic Analysis
White Paper The first three papers covered the tools and tactics of the black-hat community. This paper is a continuation of the Know Your Enemy series. This paper, the fourth of the series, studies step by step a... [05 Jun 2008]
Know Your Enemy: A Forensic Analysis
The first three papers covered the tools and tactics of the black-hat community. This paper is a continuation of the Know Your Enemy series. This paper, the fourth of the series, studies step by step a... [03 Jun 2008]
Hacking a Mac 'just works', says researcher
News During his presentation, 'Hacking Leopard: Tools and techniques for attacking the newest Mac OS X', at the recent Black Hat Briefings, Miller said that for some reason the Mac OS has more than 50-plus... [14 Aug 2007]
iPhone 'data-stealing' hack claimed
News They said they were unwilling to divulge any more details about the exploits until the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas in August, because Apple was only notified of their research findings on... [24 Jul 2007]
Bugs found in Apple's Safari for Windows
News In August 2006 Maynor and his colleague Jon Ellch used a Black Hat security event in Las Vegas to demonstrate a successful hack on an Apple MacBook. The first bugs have already been found in the beta... [13 Jun 2007]
Has the Supreme Court killed off patent trolls?
News Ed Black, president of the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), whose members include Google, Oracle, Red Hat and Verizon, said: "It's not written down, it's not published, it's not... [01 May 2007]
Q&A: James Gosling, 'father of Java'
Comment There's nothing that replaces somebody putting on a black hat and saying, 'OK, I'm gonna try to break you'. Why is Sun's Java going the GPL open source route? Are software development costs doomed to... [19 Mar 2007]
Hacking Windows Vista
White Paper Microsoft will no doubt change Vista's security features to prevent the kind of hack that was demonstrated during Black Hat (in which a Polish security researcher used virtualization technologies to... [22 Nov 2006]
$100 laptop prototype goes on show
News Development of the initial laptops has been funded by AMD, eBay, Google and Red Hat, among others. The dual-mode display can also be used in full-colour mode, or in a black-and-white sunlight-readable mode. [17 Nov 2006]
Wi-fi hijack risk for Macs
News Apple's security patches come a month after security researchers at SecureWorks demonstrated at the Black Hat security confab how an attacker could gain complete control over a laptop by sending... [22 Sep 2006]
Symantec probes Vista's defences
News Last week another researcher attacked the same Vista security feature at the Black Hat event in Las Vegas. In a third and final report on Windows Vista, Symantec examined the security of the operating... [10 Aug 2006]
Biometric passport cracked and cloned
News A hacker called Lukas Grunwald showed attendees at the Las Vegas Black Hat convention how to clone passports, using a German passport for his demonstration. News that attendees at a US hacking conference... [04 Aug 2006]
Microsoft and Apple 'must improve security patches'
News The remarks come after Washington Post journalist Brian Krebs wrote in his blog about an experience at the Black Hat security convention in Las Vegas, where he witnessed the exploit of a wireless driver... [03 Aug 2006]
