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RSS black hatCisco calls in the lawyers over Black Hat hack
News The legal moves came on Wednesday afternoon, only hours after Lynn gave the talk at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. The networking giant and Internet Security Systems jointly filed a... [28 Jul 2005]
Red Hat hits the black
News In an important landmark in the history of open source, Red Hat has actually made a profit. While other technology companies are reeling in the fallout of the US economic downturn, Red Hat is looking in... [20 Jun 2001]
Microsoft fancies more Blue Hats
News Microsoft modelled and named Blue Hat after the widely known Black Hat security conference, which took place last week in Las Vegas. Many of the talks at the annual... [02 Aug 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... [03 Nov 2005]
Bug bounty hunters recruited by security firm
News The company plans to announce the programme today and celebrate the launch with a party in Las Vegas on Wednesday, the first day of the annual Black Hat Briefings, an event for security professionals and... [25 Jul 2005]
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]
Security: Why Adobe could be the new Microsoft
News One security researcher at the Black Hat security conference last week, who asked to remain anonymous, said: "As a result of the number of zero day attacks on PDFs this year, large banks hate Adobe. At... [07 Aug 2009]
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]
Want to keep eavesdroppers out? HP researchers think they have the answer
News Hoffman and Wood are scheduled to demonstrate the technology next week at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Black Hat is one of the top security... [27 Jul 2009]
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... [03 Aug 2005]
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]
White Paper on Information Security Auditing / Implementation Procedures
White Paper The Black Hat approach does not give the security auditor any information of the network or the architecture. In contrast, the White Hat approach provides an auditor with network... [25 Feb 2004]
Router holes 'threaten the internet'
News However, a technological chicken-and-egg problem has stymied the development of a secure replacement for BGP, said Stephen Dugan, speaking at the Black Hat Security Briefings In Seattle late last week. [03 Mar 2003]
Hackers get anonymity boost
News A program called NCovert uses spoofing techniques to hide the source of communications and the data that travels over the network - a potential boon to both privacy advocates and hackers, said Mark Lovelace, senior security researcher... [01 Aug 2003]
Symantec to acquire @stake
News Originally, such groups wanted to distance themselves from both corporations and malicious "black hat" hackers. The deal is expected to close in October but terms were not disclosed.stake was founded by... [17 Sep 2004]
