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Welcome (back) Ryan Naraine; Zero Day's line-up revamped

You may have noticed a familiar byline over at our Zero Day security blog--Ryan Naraine. His addition completes a revamped line-up for our security blog. Ryan is now an evangelist for Kaspersky Lab, a security vendor. He joins Nate McFeters and Dancho Danchev, two real-world security researchers...

Tags: Dancho, Dancho Danchev, Larry Dignan, Nate McFeters, Ryan, Security, Security Blog

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Microsoft Blue Hat v7

Microsoft Blue Hat v7 - Nate McFeters's pics from Microsoft Blue Hat v7 in May '08. by Nate McFeters

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Nate McFeters, tech action, Microsoft, Blue Hat, v7, nate, mcfeters

Image galleries 2008-05-06

Black Hat Europe 2008

Nate McFeters' pictures of Black Hat Europe 2008 in Amsterdam. by Nathan McFeters

Tags: Black Hat, Nate McFeters, Nathan McFeters, news, Black Hat Europe 2008, Amsterdam, tech action, hackers, Dafydd, Marcus, Rob Carter, Billy Rios, Nitesh

Image galleries 2008-03-26

Black Hat, Day 2: DTrace, (un)Smashing the Stack, Cisco IOS Forensics

Day 2 is done and Black Hat is wrapped up. The second day of talks was power-packed with some really great presentations. Despite a wicked night of celebration after my successful talk, I still managed to turn up on time for the "DTRACE: The Reverse Engineer's...

Tags: Black Hat, Cisco IOS, Researcher, Speaker, Cisco Systems Inc., DTrace, Day 2, FX, Nate McFeters

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Black Hat, Day 1: Cracking GSM and skimming ATMs

Day 1 at Black Hat brought some outstanding talks. The day started off with David Hulton (aka h1kari, also the producer of ToorCon) and Steve from THC, who presented on "Cracking GSM". It was quite interesting due to the tie-in that David has with Pico...

Tags: Black Hat, FPGA, GSM, Phishing, ATM, Cyberthreats, Network Technology, Spam, Networking, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nate McFeters

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Additional Resources

Adobe swings and misses as PDF abuse worsens

Adobe swings and misses as PDF abuse worsensHey guys, yeah, you three up above. I have a question?When are you guys going to post more Windows only exploits? You know I can bring in the clicks.RE: Adobe swings and misses as PDF abuse worsensThis Acrobat reader bloatware came pre-installed when...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, swing, Foxit Reader

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

Adobe swings and misses as PDF abuse worsens

After more than two weeks (months?) of inexplicable silence on mitigations for a known code execution vulnerability in its Reader and Acrobat product lines, Adobe has finally posted public information on the problem but the company's response falls well short of providing definitive mitigation guidance for end users. ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat, JavaScript, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-02-25

Opera bitten by 'extremely severe' browser bug

Buried in the flurry of feature-related news surrounding the release of Opera 9.6 is the fact that the update fixes an "extremely severe" vulnerability that could expose Opera users to code execution attacks. According to an Opera advisory, which is not mentioned anywhere in Opera's giddy press...

Tags: Applet, Opera Software ASA, Rohlf, Ryan Naraine, Security, Web Browser

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Where on earth are these Microsoft patches?

Lost in the shuffle of this month's Patch Tuesday barrage is the fact that a critical vulnerability in the ever-present Windows Media Player WMP was not fixed "because of a last minute quality issue." Microsoft originally listed the WMP update in the advance notice for August but,...

Tags: Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Saying Farewell

It's been a great handful of months here at ZDNet, but I'm deciding to say goodbye to the blogging scene.  I'm already really busy with my primary job, and at this point I want to slow the work load down a good deal and just enjoy life.  I'd like to...

Tags: blogging, internet, nathan mcfeters

Blog posts 2008-08-11

News to know: Microsoft's Fiji; Apple; Green IT

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finally speaks out on 'Fiji' Zack Whittaker: Windows Fiji: a world class failure Gallery: Windows Fiji - Screenshots right Gallery: Windows Fiji - Setup Garett Rogers: Google Translate for iPhone has...

Tags: apple iphone, larry dignan, green it, apple inc., microsoft corp., microsoft windows, e-mail, operating systems, software, online communications

Blog posts 2008-08-11

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...

Tags: black hat, microsoft corp., applet, image, vegas, nathan mcfeters

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...

Tags: Billy Rios, Black Hat, Cyberthreats, Nathan McFeters, Phishing, Security, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Viruses And Worms

Blog posts 2008-08-08

Do it Yourself Mojave

Do it Yourself MojaveVista security broken - Black Hathttp://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/08/vista-security-rendered-uslessI really don't understandI have a cheap white box machine with a Q6600 processor, 8600GT, 4 Gig Ram, single hard drive, Vista Busines 32 bit. The machine is an absolute dream. Everything is fast. Its the best machine I...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, GPU

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

News to know: iPhone Dev Camp; So long computer science; Intel

Notable headlines: Andrew Mager: Touring iPhone Dev Camp 2 Live: Day 2 from the iPhone Dev Camp 2 Hands full? Get the iPhone arm Video: Spectrum ZX game montage Dion Hinchliffe: Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Computer Science, Broadband, Computer, Intel Corp., Robots, Corporate Governance, Digital Cameras, Federal Government, Monitors & Displays, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-04

On GIFARs

Ever since Rob McMillan of IDG published a story giving a preview of our coming Black Hat talk, specifically a preview of the portion of our talk related to GIFARs, media coverage of the research has swirled a bit out of control and there's been some misconceptions.  My co-presenter John...

Tags: Black Hat, Vector, Applet, Image, Attack, Heasman, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-08-02

News to know: Apple patch; IBM; PC upgrades; EDS; Yahoo

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple finally ships DNS flaw fix, patches 16 other Mac OS X holes Nate McFeters: Black Hat talk on Apple encryption flaw pulled Black Hat Sneak Preview Larry Dignan: IBM plans building spree: To build $360M...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, PC, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp., FireWire, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-08-01

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...

Tags: Black Hat, Java Applet, Web Application, Web Browser, Applet, Attack, GIFAR, Java, Programming Languages, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-08-01

Black Hat talk on Apple encryption flaw pulled

Brian Krebs from the Washington Post "Security Fix" Blog reported that one of the talks slated for next week's Black Hat convention on a previously undiscovered flaw in Apple's FileVault encryption system has been canceled, the researcher citing confidentiality agreements as the reason he will not be speaking. ...

Tags: Black Hat, Researcher, Apple Inc., Flaw, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-31

News to know: 64-bit Windows; JavaFX; Net neutrality; Apple

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Suddenly, 64-bit Windows is mainstream Dear Adobe, can we please have a 64-bit Flash player? Larry Dignan: JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft launches new search...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Broadband, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Microsoft Windows, 64-Bit, Network Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking

Blog posts 2008-07-31