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- Fake ATM, skimmers found in Las Vegas hotels
- A Google security researcher attending the Black Hat/DEFCON conferences in Las Vegas was victimized by a skimming device placed in an ATM at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. Chris Paget, an RFID security expert who now works on Google's security team, said he lost $200 to...
- Tags: Security, Las Vegas, Kiosk, Conference, Chris Paget, ATM, Network Technology, Networking, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Black Hat Europe, Day 2 (Revisited): An interview with an invisible hacker
- If you haven't seen Day 1 or Day2/Day3 of my series on Black Hat Europe, feel free to have a look. As I mentioned in my Day 2/Day 3 posting, I didn't get a chance to meet up to interview Adam Laurie until late in the day on Thursday; therefore,...
- Tags: Black Hat, Training, Satellite, Hacker, Nate, Workforce Management, Network Technology, Human Resources, Networking, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Hardware-based rootkit detection proven unreliable
- For years, weve been convinced by companies like Komoku and BBN Technologies that hardware-based RAM acquisition is the most reliable and secure way to sniff out the presence of a sophisticated rootkit on a compromised machine. Not so fast, says Joanna Rutkowska, a security researcher at COSEINC Malware Labs....
- Tags: Black Hat, Data theft, Exploit code, Hackers, Pen testing, Responsible disclosure, Rootkits, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Zero-day attacks
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Black Hat DC 2007
- Security researchers discuss vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi drivers, RFID proximity cards and weaknesses in hardware-based forensics.
- Tags: forensics, Black Hat, RFID, vulnerability, card, Wi-Fi, researcher, hardware, security
- Image galleries 2007-03-01
- News to know: Oracle goes shopping; Dell's new focus; Google and click fraud
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Oracle kicks off business intelligence consolidation.Dana Gardner: Oracle and Hyperion combo moves them closer to the ultimate business dashboard.Inside AdWords: Invalid Clicks – Google’s Overall Numbers. Larry Dignan: Google: Click fraud costs us $1 billion a year.Dells new focus: Dont look back. ArsTechnica: Why Dell and other...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Black Hat RFID talk back on, with deletions
- Chris Paget from IOActive is on stage here at Black Hat DC 2007, going ahead with his talk on RFID security issues. He has promised "not to mention a certain three-letter vendor" and made it clear that the talk had to be slightly modified to work around the legal...
- Tags: Patch Watch, Hackers, Vulnerability research, Punditocracy, Responsible disclosure, Exploit code, Black Hat, Pen testing
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- HID denies RFID demo threat, hackers worry
- Black Hat Diary: IOActive's decision to cancel its RFID hacking demo is the main topic of conversation here as white hat hackers ponder the ramifications of a vendor using patent infringement claims to thwart legitimate security research.The company at the center of the storm, HID Global, issued a statement acknowledging...
- Tags: Black Hat Federal, Digital rights management, Pen testing, Open source, Exploit code, Black Hat, Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Vulnerability research, Cisco, Hackers
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- News to Know: Adobe Apollo; Ray Ozzie; HP control freaks
- Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: Reading the Ray Ozzie tea leaves. Microsoft still trying to answer Googles wake-up call. Post Vista, Microsoft reorgs the Windows group. Microsoft shakes up Windows marketing unit.Mitch Ratcliffe: The Great Vista/Mac Showdown: ReadyBoost stands alone. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Closing thoughts on my MacBook Pro Experience.Gallery: Five years...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- RFID security: Black Hat muzzle prevents real discussion
- RFID security: Black Hat muzzle prevents real discussionWell apparently the issue is big enough for...HID to unleash the legal beagles. Which makes me wonder just how scary the threat is ????Big Enoughhttp://www.spychips.com/about_us.htmlhttp://www.spychips.com/blog.htmlRFID powderhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/14/hitachis-rfid-powder-freaks-us-the-heck-out/This is big business:http://www.rfidjournal.com/http://www.rfidgazette.org/http://www.rfid-weblog.com/http://www.rfidsb.com/
- Tags: RFID, RFID Security, Black Hat
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- Nixed: Black Hat talk on RFID access badge risks
- Nixed: Black Hat talk on RFID access badge risksSleazy lawyer intimidation tricksAnother example of what's wrong with the legal system/profession in the U.S.A. Anyone with money can hire a lawyer to intimidate a party with fewer resources, and effectively take away their freedom to do things well within their...
- Tags: patent, Black Hat, RFID
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- RFID security: Black Hat muzzle prevents real discussion
- Ryan Naraine gives details on why a talk about RFID security was canceled at Black Hat. In short, IOActive’s Chris Paget’s plan to explain why RFID technology is “insecure and untrustworthy” was nixed after secure card maker HID Corp. raised objections in a letter that claims possible patent infringement. Infoworlds...
- Tags: RFID, Security, Software Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Black Hat RFID hacking demo threatened
- Black Hat RFID hacking demo threatenedSecurity through obscurity never works...They should have learned that by now one would hope. It doesnt matter if he talks about it or not, there are lots of people who already know it's weakness and how to profit by them !!!!!Call me confusedI don't get...
- Tags: SECURITY, RFID, Carroll, hacking, Black Hat
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- Black Hat RFID hacking demo threatened
- Another Black Hat conference, another vulnerability disclosure debate.IOActive's Chris Paget's plan to explain why RFID technology is "insecure and untrustworthy" has run into a legal stumbling block after secure card maker HID Corp. raised objections in a letter that claims possible patent infringement.InfoWorld's Paul Roberts is reporting that HID sent...
- Tags: Wi-Fi security, Pen testing, Black Hat, Exploit code, Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Cisco, Vulnerability research, Oracle, Hackers, Zero-day attacks, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- News to know: Inside MySpace's IT; Oracle patches; Jobs is a $20B asset
- Notable headlines:Small drives cross performance threshold.AOL phisher faces up to 101 years in prison.Inside MySpace.coms IT: Booming traffic demands put a constant stress on the social networks computing infrastructure. Yet, MySpace developers have repeatedly redesigned the Web site software, database and storage systems in an attempt to keep pace with...
- Tags: General, information technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- The ePassport cloning myth never dies
- Here we go again with the BBC reporting the same myth that electronic passports have been “cloned” which got a lot of readers from digg and slashdot. This grossly misinformed myth has been repeated so many times by the press that the lie has basically become true. I’m...
- Tags: RFID ePassport, RFID, Lukas Grunwald
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcast
- I had the opportunity to interview Kevin Mahaffey who is the Director of Development for Flexilis Inc. Kevin and his team of researchers presented a video at Black Hat 2006 illustrating improperly shielded RFID Radio Frequency Identifier passports that can potentially be used to trigger a bomb.It turns out...
- Tags: RFID, passport
- Blog posts 2006-08-21
- Register: Fliers stripped of hi-tech, remote detonation a possibility in terror plot
- According to The Register's reporting on this morning's foiled terror plot, passengers looking to fly out of UK airports this morning were not only asked to stow all of their carry-on luggage, they were asked to put any electronics in that luggage. The crackdown on wireless technology apparently included...
- Tags: detonation, plot
- Blog posts 2006-08-10
- First cloned passports, then bombs, and now ATM fraud: Security problems should plague RFID's future
- First, it took hackers barely two weeks to clone the new RFID-based passports. Wrote Wired of the situation:Grunwald says it took him only two weeks to figure out how to clone the passport chip. Most of that time he spent reading the standards for e-passports that are posted on a...
- Tags: passport, RFID
- Blog posts 2006-08-09
- RFID passports with improper shielding triggers bomb in simulation
- At Black Hat 2006, Flexilis inc. demonstrated that improper shielding in the proposed American RFID passports might be used by terrorists to set off bombs that may target citizens of particular nations. To demonstrate this, Flexilis produced a video showing what happens to an improperly shielded...
- Tags: RFID Passport, RFID, Flexilis
- Blog posts 2006-08-09
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