The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
Some of the world’s greatest minds in IT security will gather in Queensland’s Gold Coast for the annual AusCERT conference this month.
Notable of the 90 presenters include the co-inventor of public key cryptography, Whitfield Diffie, expert security researcher, Marcus Ranum, Cisco security chief, John Stewart, and The Tor Project president, Roger Dingledine. Hackers with hats [...] Read more »
Part of the CanSecWest conference is the annual Pwn2Own contest where security researchers show off their hacking expertise and compete to exploit and compromise fully-patched systems–a challenge the security researchers seem to overcome with surprising ease year after year.
Security researchers in the Pwn2Own contest demonstrate just how trivial it is for dedicated attackers to compromise [...] Read more »
The only researcher to “three-peat” at the Pwn2Own hacking contest said today that security is such a “broken record” that he won’t hand over 20 vulnerabilities he’s found in Apple’s, Adobe’s and Microsoft’s software.
Instead Charlie Miller will show the vendors how to find the bugs themselves.
Miller, who yesterday exploited Safari on a MacBook Pro notebook [...] Read more »
Security researchers have defeated vulnerability protections baked into the latest versions of Internet Explorer, demonstrating that it’s possible to poke holes in a safety net that’s widely relied on to keep end users safe from drive-by exploits.
By exploiting weaknesses in Adobe Systems’ Flash Player, researchers have devised two separate attacks that bypass mitigations Microsoft put [...] Read more »
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