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iPhone Hacks Demoed at Black Hat

Security experts announced recently that they would demonstrate a series of vulnerabilities that Apple's iPhone came to the market with, among which an SMS flaw that would enable an attacker to take control of the device by sending a special text message to the phone. The software breach issue was demonstrated b...

31 July 2009
04:51 GMT

Upcoming ATM Hack Demo at Black Hat Gets Canceled

An intriguing and much expected presentation of a serious vulnerability affecting automated teller machines that was scheduled to take place at the upcoming Black Hat conference got canceled. The researcher was forced by its employer, Juniper Networks, to postpone making his findings public, following a request from ...

1 July 2009
09:07 GMT

Hacker Journalists Expelled from Black Hat

Three journalists, representing the French Global Security Magazine, have been expelled from the hacker Black Hat conference, as CNet.news reports. The three went a bit too far with their hacking skills, as they broke into the LAN connection of the conference and extracted login information of other journalists. The ...

8 August 2008
11:17 GMT

Email Security Threatened by DNS Flaw

Dan Kaminsky is the IOActive specialist whose speech was the most anticipated at this year's Black Hat hacker conference held in Las Vegas. This happened because, one month ago, Kaminsky announced that he had discovered a DNS flaw that employed completely new methods to steal data and affect users' connecti...

7 August 2008
08:34 GMT

Hackers Ger Ready for Windows Vista x64 Onslaught

If Windows Vista is Microsoft's much applauded, most bulletproofed platform to date, then the 64-bit edition of the operating system is an epitome of Windows security. However, hackers are getting ready for the x64 Vista onslaught, designed to demythologize the apex of security that the 64-bit edition of the ope...

29 June 2007
04:42 GMT


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