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Softpedia Exclusive Interview: Marco Balduzzi on SatanCloud

Marco Balduzzi, a senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, has been kind enough to have a chat with us at the Hack in the Box 2012 security conference in Amsterdam. We’ve talked about different things relating to cloud security, but the talk focused on the researcher’s studies on Amazon EC server images ...

6 July 2012
17:41 GMT

Softpedia Exclusive Interview: Steven Seeley on the “Ghost” in Windows Allocator

As we mentioned previously, this year we had a lot of great interviews at Hack in the Box Amsterdam. One of them was with Steven Seeley, a senior security consultant at Stratsec, who identified a few interesting vulnerabilities. Much of his research has focused on the Windows 7 and Windows 8 heap managers, their sec...

30 June 2012
08:11 GMT

Softpedia Exclusive Interview: Georgia Weidman on the Android Permission Model

At the end of May we attended the Hack in the Box security conference in Amsterdam and we had the opportunity to speak to a number of experts. One of them is Georgia Weidman, the founder and CEO of Bulb Security. She shared some interesting insight on Android’s permission model and the security holes that come...

23 June 2012
08:51 GMT

Softpedia Exclusive Interview: Roberto Suggi Liverani on Browser Vulnerabilities

During the 2012 edition of the Hack in the Box (HITB) security conference in Amsterdam, we had the pleasure of speaking to Roberto Suggi Liverani, a researcher who focused his efforts on finding vulnerabilities in some of the most popular web browsers. Security holes in web browsers are nor something new, but part o...

20 June 2012
02:05 GMT

Softpedia Exclusive Interview: Adam Gowdiak on the Flaws in Digital Satellite Devices

This year, Softpedia had the privilege to pick the brains of many security experts at Hack in the Box 2012 Amsterdam. Among them is Adam Gowdiak, CEO and founder of Security Explorations, a company whose researchers are not afraid of taking a crack at unexplored areas. Their latest achievement is the discovery of ma...

12 June 2012
02:54 GMT

Softpedia Exclusive Interview: iOS Hackers of the Chronic Dev Team

The 2012 edition of the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam featured a world premier: for the first time ever the entire Chronic Dev Team got together. As many of our readers may already know from our HITB coverage, we’ve had the honor of interviewing the hackers to whom most people are grateful for being...

9 June 2012
08:31 GMT

Jailbreak Dream Team Press Conference at HITB 2012 Amsterdam (Video)

The guys from the Chronic Dev Team and the iPhone Dev Team, also known as the Dream Team, have taken center stage here in Amsterdam at the 2012 edition of the world renowned Hack in the Box (HITB) conference. Just before the event ended, the hackers held a press conference to answer a few questions. Since they were ...

25 May 2012
17:32 GMT

Bruce Schneier on Trust, Security and Society at HITB 2012 Amsterdam

We’re at the Okura hotel in Amsterdam, attending the 2012 Hack in the Box security conference, and the second day seems to be as impressive as the first one. It started off with a keynote held by Bruce Schneier, the world renowned security guru and chief technology security officer at BT, who held a speech on &...

25 May 2012
11:49 GMT

Pod2g: “Yes, I Would Really Be Happy to Work for Apple”

Amsterdam’s 2012 edition of the Hack in the Box conference has yielded quite a few interesting tidbits about the jailbreaking scene, thanks to three famed hackers - @Pod2g (Cyril), @p0sixninja (Joshua Hill), and @pimskeks (Nikias Bassen). There’s still more to squeeze out of them, including an untethered...

25 May 2012
03:18 GMT

Hackers Ready iOS 6 Jailbreak Before Apple Even Rolls Out the Betas (Updated)

We’re down here in Amsterdam for the 2012 edition of the Hack in the Box and we’ve had the honor of interviewing a few of the members of the Apple jailbreak Dream Team. More precisely, we’ve had a talk with Joshua Hill, also known by his Twitter handle as @p0sixninja, Cyril, aka @pod2g, and Nikias B...

24 May 2012
19:21 GMT

Hackers Reveal the Price of iOS Jailbreaks at HITB 2012 Amsterdam

There have been a lot of interesting developments here at Hack in the Box in Amsterdam, and one of them is the first ever union of the jailbreak Dream Team. Today, Softpedia has had the chance to interview the members of the Chronic Dev Team and learn some things that many were probably curious about. One of the top...

24 May 2012
19:21 GMT

Hack in the Box 2012 Amsterdam Video Overview

We’re in Amsterdam attending the 2012 edition of the Hack in the Box security conference. It’s a great atmosphere down here, so we have decided to make a video overview of the event to show everyone what’s happening at the Okura hotel. The day started with Andy Ellis, Akamai’s chief security...

24 May 2012
19:09 GMT

Social Engineering and Hacking Skills Put to the Test at HITB 2012 Amsterdam

As we’ve mentioned on previous occasions, this year’s Hack in the Box (HITB) security conference in Amsterdam will feature a lot of great speakers and challenges. One of these will be the “Social Engineering and CTF Challenge” created and run by Sogeti Nederland B.V. “With #SSEC2012, So...

17 May 2012
09:02 GMT

HITB 2012 Topics: WinRT and the “Ghost” in the Windows 7 Allocator

This year’s Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam promises a lot of great challenges, but also a number of interesting topics that will be presented by the speakers. Two of the subjects detailed at HITB will be the “Ghost in the Windows 7 allocator” and the new Windows 8 RunTime feature. Sebastie...

9 May 2012
08:19 GMT

HITB 2012 Amsterdam to Host Kinect for Windows CommSec Challenge

If last year Hack in the Box participants were challenged to put their imagination to good use by utilizing LEGO pieces and robots, this year the security conference will host an event in which contesters will have to use Kinect’s tracking features to create a system that can translate movements into words. Th...

7 May 2012
09:10 GMT

HackWEEKDAY Goes Turbo at HITB 2012 in Amsterdam

With the 2012 Hack in the Box (HITB) security conference approaching fast the event’s organizers reveal that this year’s HackWEEKDAY competition goes turbo. On May 24 and 25, hackers, coders and developers from all around the world can test their skills in the Mozilla-sponsored HackWEEKDAY Turbo Edition...

26 March 2012
05:24 GMT

Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Satellite TV and DVB Systems

The Internet is already buzzing about the Hack in the Box (HITB) conference that will take place in Amsterdam between May 21 and May 25. Among the interesting subjects presented at the event, there are also the flaws discovered by a Polish security researcher in digital satellite TV set-top-boxes and Digital Video Br...

7 March 2012
09:41 GMT


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