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RSS black hat in newsHacking 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 'Suid' root programs. [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 17 July. [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 version of Safari for Windows, a port of Apple's... [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 the subject of scholarly discussion, and that... [01 May 2007]
$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 malformed network traffic to a vulnerable computer. [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 system core and found some vulnerabilities. [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 have seen a demonstration of how to clone a... [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 in one of Apple's MacBooks. [03 Aug 2006]
One-laptop-per-child by next year?
News Companies including AMD, Google, News Corp and Red Hat have donated to the project. The final design incorporates a low-power display designed by project engineer Mary Lou Jepsen that's designed to run for up to 40 minutes in black-and-white mode... [17 Nov 2005]
Cisco patches critical flaw
News The newly disclosed flaw in IOS was part of a controversial presentation at the Black Hat security confab in July, but Cisco has been able to keep it under wraps until now. At Black Hat, security researcher Michael Lynn demonstrated how he could... [03 Nov 2005]
Flaw mars Kaspersky antivirus software
News At the Black Hat Briefings security conference this summer, researchers at Internet Security Systems outlined vulnerabilities in antivirus products. A "critical" flaw in Kaspersky Labs' antivirus software could let an attacker commandeer systems... [04 Oct 2005]
$100 wind-up laptops for the developing world?
News Five companies are working with MIT to develop an initial five million to 15 million test units within the year: Advanced Micro Devices, BrightStar, Google, News Corp, and Red Hat, Negroponte said. The proposed design of the machines calls for a... [29 Sep 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 puts computer networks at... [08 Sep 2005]
Cisco.com website breached - customers warned
News Security experts, however, are unsure as hackers around the world have been racing to find a vulnerability in Cisco equipment since it was described by security researcher Michael Lynn at the Black Hat conference last week. [03 Aug 2005]
