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The Weekly Round-Up: 07.08.09
Round-Up Sinofsky wrote: "While we appreciate the drama of 'critical bug' and then the pickup of 'showstopper' that I've seen, we might take a step back and realise that this might not have that defcon level. Eliot wrote "April... [07 Aug 2009]
Security: Why Adobe could be the new Microsoft
News At the Black Hat and Defcon security shows last week, others concurred. If you're a criminal and you want to break into a network, a common attack method is to exploit a hole in software that exists on most computers,... [07 Aug 2009]
Twitter blackout confirmed as denial-of-service attack
News But it's probably not a coincidence that they all coincide with the annual Defcon hacker convention. Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday, followed by a period of slowness and sporadic timeouts, and... [06 Aug 2009]
Microsoft denies Windows 7 bug has 'showstopper' status
News Sinofsky wrote on the site: "While we appreciate the drama of 'critical bug' and then the pickup of 'showstopper' that I've seen, we might take a step back and realise that this might not have that defcon level. [06 Aug 2009]
'Hack your own Oracle database' tool unveiled next week
News During their presentation at the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences next week in Las Vegas, security experts will release a tool that can be used to break into Oracle databases. Chris Gates and Mario Ceballos will... [24 Jul 2009]
ATM hack talk pulled from security conference
News It's almost security conference season in Las Vegas and with one month to go, a presentation has been pulled from Black Hat and Defcon. The description of the talk, which was posted on the Defcon website... [02 Jul 2009]
Dear Google: 'Better protection please in Google Apps'
News Some of the security experts endorsing the document include Bruce Schneier, chief security technology officer of BT Group; Peter Neumann, principal scientist at SRI International; encryption pioneer Ron Rivest of MIT; Steve Bellovin of... [17 Jun 2009]
Homeland Security hires ex-hacker
News Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the US Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). Moss's background as a computer hacker (known as... [08 Jun 2009]
Vista: 'Expect hackers to find holes'
News In the summer, rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska demonstrated a signed driver requirement bypass at Defcon 2006. Antivirus experts from Kaspersky Labs have predicted 90 per cent of current malware will run on... [12 Dec 2006]
Trojan sinks its teeth into BlackBerry
News At the Defcon hacker confab on Saturday, researcher Jesse D'Aguanno said he developed a program called BBProxy that, when running on a BlackBerry, gives an attacker entry to the network the wireless device connects to. [09 Aug 2006]
Q&A: Kevin Mitnick, former hacker
Comment He is a celebrity, especially at events such as the annual Defcon gathering of hackers in Las Vegas, where attendees ask him to sign their badges. To many, the name Kevin Mitnick is synonymous with "notorious hacker". [07 Nov 2005]
Cisco issues cyber attack alert
News During the Black Hat and Defcon security events in July, researcher Michael Lynn demonstrated he could gain control of a Cisco router by exploiting a known security flaw in IOS. A serious flaw in Cisco Systems software... [08 Sep 2005]
Hacker mag closure spells bad news for security
News The 63rd and final edition of Phrack will come out as a hardback collectors copy and will be available to attendees at the DefCon hackers conference in Las Vegas between 29 and 31 July as well as the What The Hack... [11 Jul 2005]
Las Vegas at 100: Why it's tech's kind of town
Comment In keeping with the criminal underbelly of Las Vegas, hacker convention DefCon has also found a home here. Like the adult entertainment industry, the world of gambling is a test bed for many cutting-edge technologies. [16 May 2005]
Who's afraid of the big, bad e-voting system?
News The polls, taken by the Poneman Institute, separately surveyed ordinary people and a much smaller group of researchers at the recent Defcon computer security conference. The public survey was large enough to be... [04 Aug 2004]
