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- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2Dowd and SotirovYou mention Dowd and Sotirov's talk in passing. I'm intensely curious to read your take on their presentation when you get an opportunity to review their stuff. Is it on your blogging agenda?GreatSounds like lots of fun. Nice update. Don't know how you...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-09
- 'Mainstream Media' mocks blogosphere and bloggers
- 'Mainstream Media' mocks blogosphere and bloggersTraditional Media: Aren't We Noble?Actually from a long time ago, I gave up on traditional newscasters. I found their "Holier than thou" attitude too much for me to bear. I especially liked Comedy Central's, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart's" repeated spoofs on many of...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-23
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- Microsoft to ship emergency IE, Visual Studio patches
- Less than a month after a first pass at patching a troublesome flaw affecting its dominant Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft has announced plans to release two emergency updates with a comprehensive fix for the problem. The unusual move comes on the heels of...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Apple eliminates CanSecWest Pwn2Own flaws
- Apple eliminates CanSecWest Pwn2Own flawsFault EliminationI did see the SVG fix in your article on 10.5.7's release and your relaying of Apple's attribution of discovery to "Nils." Regarding the IE8 issue, this is difficult to research because the signal to noise ratio is real low, but it looks as though...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-14
- No Device Will Save The New York Times. Only The Times Can.
- No Device Will Save The New York Times. Only The Times Can.Fancy garbage is still garbage.[B]What really sets the Times apart is its ability to dig in deeply to events and issues that really matter ? and not necessarily in New York. International reporting, national reporting, business and politics.[/B]They stopped...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- Nils2Own: 'I want to see security flaws fixed'
- VANCOUVER, BC -- Charlie Miller may have dominated the headlines but the undisputed champion of this year's CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest was a hitherto unknown hacker who asked to be identified simply as "Nils." A day after his perfect sweep of the breaking into...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Questions for Pwn2Own hacker Charlie Miller
- VANCOUVER, BC -- At the CanSecWest security conference here, I got a chance to sit down with Charlie Miller, the researcher who broke into a fully patched MacBook machine using a Safari code execution vulnerability. We discuss the state of Web browser security, the vulnerability marketplace and...
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks out
- Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks outNicely doneI appreciate that you took the time to speak with the researcher who actually discovered the flaws.There are a couple of bloggers on ZDNET who always seem slant their "blogs" with grandiose claims against one platform or technology.I think...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks out
- Earlier today I published a lengthy blog post questioning some of the sensationalist conclusions raised in press coverage of a paper presented by Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd at last week’s Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas. This afternoon, I received an e-mail from Sotirov, who says he was "horrified...
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactly
- Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactlyOh no!!Another Bott post!!!! I glad there is no more nonsense comparison between two different things.Um, Ed ...... I know you read the paper because I sent you the PDF, but it seems you failed to notice a few things.You accuse me of "alarming...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactly
- Oh dear. The Chicken Little contingent is out in full force. Break out your Kevlar helmets, everyone, because the sky is falling on Windows! At last week’s Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, researchers Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd presented a paper that outlined some new attack vectors they had...
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this long
- Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this longBest security is to take computers off the NetFor my computers at home, there is now only one that has firewalled access to the Internet. My kids' computers DO NOT. My media server DOES NOT. The PC with my finance stuff and...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-09
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2
- Again, sorry for the late updates. Vegas is the kind of place that demands a lot of a person. Too many parties make it difficult to find time to blog on the conference. Pictures of the even are a bit sparse, due to consistently forgetting to bring my camera, but...
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this long
- So, in a stroke, two security researchers Mark Dowd of IBM and Alexander Sotirov or VMware at Black Hat have set browser security back 10 years and rendered Vista's security have been rendered useless. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 1
- Well, this is well late, but here's my recap of Black Hat Day 1. Sorry for the delay, but I've been terribly busy finishing up preparations for my Day 2 talk. The first talk I went to see, "Pointers and Handles, A Story of Unchecked Assumptions...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Black Hat Sneak Preview
- Rob McMillan from IDG interviewed John Heasman and I today about the presentation we will be delivering with Rob Carter at Black Hat Vegas next week. The article has a good teaser about one of the more interesting of the many attacks we will cover, namely what we've coined...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- 2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced
- Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on. From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Don't doubt Deputy Dan
- Well, it would seem that Tom Ptacek may have figured out something to do with Dan Kaminsky's earlier DNS flaw, and this may actually be the vulnerability to fear that we had originally heard. Let's just say this, I've read Tom's postings on the Matasano blog for quite some time...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- 2008 Pwnie Awards
- Don't forget to go and vote on the Pwnie Awards, which will happen at Black Hat Vegas again this year. I don't want to campaign for votes, but I wouldn't be pissed if some of my loyal readers out there voted for me, Billy Rios, Rob Carter, and John Heasman and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Black Hat '08 preview webcast on its way
- Ladies and gents, For those who hadn't heard, I will be presenting at Black Hat Vegas '08 this year with Rob Carter, John Heasman, and Billy Rios. Our presentation is called "The Internet is Broken: Beyond document.cookie - Extreme Client Side Attacks", which may sound like a...
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
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