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Up in the hardware hacking village, a team put together all seven DEFCON 17 badges for the very first time. Here are a few pictures of their hard work coming together.
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It’s been a busy week with several new vulnerabilities, and patches from Oracle, Mozilla, and Microsoft. Black Hat USA and DEFCON is coming up, and the excitement is in the air. Just do a twitter search and see how many people are talking about it. Now onto the weekly review… Events Related: National SCADA Test [...]
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Yesterday we posted our day one picks for Black Hat USA 2009. Today we will share our top picks for day two. Attacking SMS (1000 - 1100) With the increased usage of text messaging around the globe, SMS provides an ever widening attack surface on today's mobile phones. From over the air updates to rich [...]
Choosing which session to attend is hard enough with eight different tracks going on at this year’s Black Hat USA, so here are our top picks for the first day. Ruby for Pentesters (1000-1100) Getting up to speed quickly on projects where you’re down deep reversing protocols or applications can be challenging at best and [...]
This is an updated post from last year, with a similar post title of Top 5 Reasons to Attend Black Hat USA. So what makes Black Hat USA so good, and why do we keep coming back? Here are our top five reasons to attend Black Hat USA. Excellent Presentations – There are eight session [...]