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Home router security holes to be exposed at Def Con 22 hacker meet up

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How secure is your wireless router? The Def Con 22 hacker conference aims to find out exactly how resilient off the shelf products are next month during a six-day hackathon.

Dave Wreski
Jul 21, 2014

5 lessons from companies that get computer security right

Most organizations are very bad at computer security. They don't patch well, and they have short, simple passwords that don't expire. They have dozens to hundreds of people in elevated groups. They don't have a clue who has which permissions in their environment.

Alex
Jun 04, 2014

Chrome OS security holes found, patched

At Google's Pwnium hacking competition, two new security exploits in Chrome OS were demonstrated, while at Pwn2Own a Chrome Web browser problem was found that also impacted Chrome OS. All three problems have now been patched.

Dave Wreski
Mar 18, 2014

Researchers pocket record $400K at Pwn2Own hacking contest's first day

Researchers on Wednesday cracked Microsoft's Internet Explorer 11 (IE11), Mozilla's Firefox and Adobe's Flash and Reader at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, earning $400,000 in prizes, a one-day record for the challenge.

Alex
Mar 13, 2014

Five minutes with Enrique Pel

Kaspersky Academy continues its new project

Alex
Feb 06, 2014

List of Canceled RSA Talks Continues to Grow

A relatively small but influential list of speakers for the upcoming RSA Conference have decided to withdraw from the show in the wake of stories implicating RSA as a co-conspirator in the NSA

Dave Wreski
Jan 14, 2014

Anonymous' 'Million Mask March' goes global

Hundreds of protests around the world sparked up on Tuesday in what the hacking collective Anonymous called the "Million Mask March." Donning Guy Fawkes masks, the demonstrators' goal was to "defend humanity."

Alex
Nov 11, 2013

DNSSec day in Colombia

The Event was

Alex
Aug 29, 2013

Inside the Hacker World of Lulzsec, Anonymous and the Global Cyber Insurgency

It is perhaps a little hard to remember now, but in 2010, there seemed to be a new global superpower. A superpower that acted in unorthodox ways, which was unaccountable and yet of the people, and that was above all nameless, faceless and, as it styled itself, Anonymous.

Anthony Pell
Aug 20, 2013

Surveillance scandal rips through hacker community

It used to be that the playful Defcon contest of "Spot the Fed" gave hackers and the government agents tracking them a chance interact in a less serious manner.

Alex
Aug 06, 2013

Car hacking code released at Defcon

Car computer hacking hit the gas on the first morning of Defcon 21, as hackers revealed how they took over two of the most popular cars in America.

Dave Wreski
Aug 05, 2013

The origins of DefCon

This week we have the DefCon 20 and Black Hat computer security conferences in Las Vegas -- reasons enough for me to do 2-3 columns about computer security. These columns will be heading in a direction I don

Alex
Jul 31, 2013

How to avoid a social engineering attack at Black Hat and Def Con

Some of the world's most skilled social engineers and hackers head to Las Vegas next week for Black Hat and Def Con. Heed these nine tips and avoid becoming a victim yourself while at the events

Alex
Jul 26, 2013

For first time ever, feds asked to sit out Defcon hacker conference

Since its founding in 1992, Defcon has been a venue where anarchists, geeks, and employees of three-letter federal agencies became unlikely comrades under a live-and-let-live credo that placed the love of computer tinkering above almost everything else.

Dave Wreski
Jul 11, 2013

Secrets of a master hacker revealed at Gulf security conference

Sophisticated hackers now use "social engineering" - exploiting the psychological vulnerabilities of human users - rather than technological weaknesses in security systems, famous former hacker Kevin Mitnick told a cyber security conference in Dubai.

Anthony Pell
Jun 06, 2013

How UNSW creates the world's best hackers

The University of NSW is known for producing some of Australia's top lawyers, doctors and accountants. But the 64-year-old institution is now gaining a reputation for excelling in what is often viewed as anti-establishment

Alex
May 14, 2013

Hackers Train Security Experts in Digital Attack Methods

The HackMiami 2013 Hackers Conference, taking place on Miami Beach, will feature comprehensive training seminars that seek to facilitate the skills of SQL injection, smartphone attacks, and enterprise network breaches.

Alex
May 01, 2013

Penn College students win

In a field that included industry professionals, 10 students in Pennsylvania College of Technology

Dave Wreski
Apr 30, 2013

Largest gathering of offensive hackers converges on Miami

No nametags. No photographs. No video. Attendees remain utterly anonymous -- and that

Dave Wreski
Apr 15, 2013

How valuable are security certifications today?

When it comes to education, most people agree, more is better. No one embodies that principle at least in regard to IT certifications better than Jerry Irvine. CIO of IT consulting firm Prescient Solutions and member of the National Cyber Security Task Force, Irvine holds more than 20 IT certifications, of which at least six are specifically information security-oriented.

Dave Wreski
Apr 02, 2013

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