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- Rob Carter at the Movenpick (Black Hat Europe 2008)
- Rob Carter at the Movenpick (Black Hat Europe 2008)I would love to go to one!!This is one of the most exclusive events in IT. Hackers - black hat, white hat and red hats everywhere? Has anyone here been to one?RE: Rob Carter at the Movenpick (Black Hat Europe 2008)Of course...
- Tags: Movenpick, Black Hat Europe 2008, Rob Carter, Black Hat
- Discussion threads 2008-12-04
- 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
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- Directory: 100 technology experts on Twitter
- a few things missing from your listnice list, a little heavy on the zdnet side though (gee, color me surprised). but what the heck is that jr rafael/raphael dude doing on there? have you seen his police record?missing from your list: @eSarcasm geek humor gone wild. fyi, here's a better...
- Tags: Twitter Inc., technology expert
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- The problem for open source textbooks
- The problem for open source textbooksinteresting one, here is an attempt...1) Find an author/publisher willing to open source an existing textbook as the 'seed' for each subject. The seed is very important.2) Have a wikipedia style site. Decide whether and how contributors and contributions will be managed. 3) Have periodic...
- Tags: open source, state?s children, textbook, open source textbook
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Climate vagaries and the zdnet time machine
- Climate vagaries and the zdnet time machineInformation sources and observational dataThought I would give some information sources for the "other side" on the debate with the IPCC:The Heartland Institute's environment page: http://www.heartland.org/suites/environment/index.htmlIcecap: http://icecap.us/ BTW they have an article saying some Democrats want to delay implementation of Obama's cap...
- Tags: Relative Humidity, Gore, climate model
- Discussion threads 2008-12-13
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...
- Tags: Attack, Flaw, Lifelock, Nathan McFeters, Nominee, Security, Vulnerability, XSS, XSS Flaw
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilities
- Update 07/16/2008: Apparently I neglected to mention that this has been patched already. Reading over it again and a heads up from a reader pointed out the error to me. As always, great job by Window Snyder and the Mozilla Security Team for getting this patched quickly. ...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, URI, Vulnerability, Mozilla Corp., Attack, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Kaminsky to discuss DNS flaw at Black Hat sponsored webcast
- The Black Hat group on Twitter provided a message today alerting people to a webcast to be put on by Dan Kaminsky on the DNS vulnerabilities that I've heavily covered as follows: Dan Kaminsky breaks DNS, massive multi-vendor patch coming, details at Black Hat Vegas '08 ...
- Tags: Black Hat, Webcast, DNS, Flaw, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90% of desktops currently at risk*
- * The 90% of desktops currently at risk comes from numbers presented at the Java One Keynote in 2008. If you aren't patched, get the Java control panel up and get updated, or go to Sun's site to download the update, cause this one's big. Yesterday Sun...
- Tags: Desktop, Sun Microsystems Inc., JRE, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Multiple Facebook vulnerabilities reported on Full-Disclosure
- Jouko Pynnonen posted a message to the Full-Disclosure mailing list today, citing multiple "script injection" vulnerabilities within Facebook. I'm not sure if this is a surprise to anybody out there, it's certainly not to me, as numerous web applications have major problems with Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities, but I think this...
- Tags: Facebook, Vulnerability, XSS, JavaScript, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Sandbox, JS, Canvas Page, Web Browsers, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failures
- McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failuresI get slammed for pronouncing the name wrong, but McAfee is the bestMcAfee is the only true voice on security. I have never once seen a computer with their AV software installed that has be overrun with viruses. If this is...
- Tags: SECURITY, McAfee Inc., HackerSafe
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Researcher keeps 'carpet bomb' attack alive, despite patch
- Security research Billy Rios posted an article today about the Apple Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack, discussing a new issue that, despite the patch which prevented a "blended" remote command execution attack when Safari was used in conjunction with IE on a Windows system, keeps the "Carpet Bomb" attack alive and well. ...
- Tags: Software, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Ecosystem, Attack, Billy Rios, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-21
- 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...
- Tags: Category, Nomination, Security, Nathan McFeters
- 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...
- Tags: Black Hat, Webcast, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
- Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destruction
- SCADA scares me, and I've seen enough things on the Internet to be desensitized to many things, but attacks against SCADA threaten our national security in a very real and topical way by attacking power grids, water treatment plants, nuclear plants, etc. Hacking networks that SCADA devices reside on and...
- Tags: Device, Hacking, Internet, Network, SCADA, Terrorism, Attack, Enterprise Software, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Black Hat Vegas '08: Sneak peek at some of the interesting attacks we will unveil
- John Heasman posted a sneak preview of our Black Hat presentation, which will happen in August in Las Vegas today. This particular attack is extremely interesting, multi-stage nastiness involving the use of Java to steal domain credentials. John describes this as: "I'm going to revisit an old...
- Tags: Attack, Black Hat, Nathan McFeters, Security
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- RSnake picks on Google Health... yes, Google wants your medical records, too!
- Interesting article from Robert "RSnake" Hansen yesterday on one of Google's new innovations, the Google Health application. Yeah, imagine that, Google wants to own the content of your medical records, too! You'd think that Google would want to avoid this due to HIPPA complications, as this is a true example of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Medical Record, RSnake, Hipaa, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Regulations, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
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