Reporters booted from conference for hacking

With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public Wi-Fi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room.

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Apple on Friday fixed an SMS-related security flaw in the iPhone that had been at the center of one of the most talked-about exploits at this week's Black Hat security conference.

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Researchers have discovered a way to take complete control over an iPhone merely by sending special SMS messages and demonstrated it on my iPhone at the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday.

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In the end, it was hackers at DefCon that got hacked. After three days of software cracking duels and hacking seminars, self-described computer ninjas at the infamous gathering in Las Vegas found out Sunday that their online activities were hijacked without them catching on.

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This SEO has been ripped off by his rental management and has decided to get even by outranking them for their own keyword and negatively affecting their business reputation. This shows the true power of SEO!

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The National Security Agency, whose initials once seemed to stand for No Such Agency, is moving from being a proprietary to an open-source organization. Sort of.

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Efforts to share security data are helping to foster community approach necessary to improve IT practices, said an NSA expert presenting at Black Hat.

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In April of 2003, the Los Angeles Times ran a dramatic image of a British soldier urging Iraqi civilians to safety. The credited photographer, Brian Walski, was later fired for combining separate photos to create the image. It was a compelling shot, but it was also a lie.

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Security researchers have found a way to subvert the load-up procedure for Windows Vista and bypass its code-signing security checks.

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ARLINGTON, Va.--Simply booting up a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop can tell people sniffing wireless network traffic a lot about your computer--and about you.

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Interesting article describing black hat SEO research.

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Jon Ellch -- aka Johnny Cache -- was one of the presenters of the now infamous "faux disclosure" at Black Hat and DEFCON last month. Ellch and co-presenter Dave Maynor have gone silent since then, fueling speculation that the entire presentation may have been a hoax.

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One of the best things that can happen at a show like Black Hat is making new friends, especially if they are not only brilliant, but also compliment you on your Linux T-shirt.

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You've probably heard of full disclosure, the security philosophy that calls for making public all details of vulnerabilities. It has been the subject of debates among researchers, vendors, and security firms.

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Analysis At Black Hat yesterday, security consultant Lukas Grunwald of German company DN-Systems demonstrated the cloning of a biometric passport, observing beforehand to Wired that the "whole passport design is totally brain damaged." But should we be surprised? Not exactly, bec …

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Microsoft brought Vista to this year's Black Hat conference, which is a bold move considering their usually nefarious operating system problems in the past.

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From the page: -- Reading blogs via popular RSS or Atom feeds may expose computer users to hacker attacks, a security expert warned.

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The technique will eventually be offered as a free software tool

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Robert Auger and Caleb Sima of security firm SPI Dymanics gave a 50-minute security briefing on RSS and Atom feed vulnerabilities at yesterday's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

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Eweek: Look Who's Pen Testing Vista A closer look at the efforts Microsoft has made both in building on the security model for the upcoming release of Windows Vista, and efforts to get more of the Hacker community involved in making that OS more secure for release.

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A German computer security consultant has shown that he can clone the electronic passports that the United States and other countries are beginning to distribute this year.

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Members of the Black Hat audience responded to Microsoft's briefings on Windows Vista security Thursday not with hostility but with polite interest.

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The annual security conference traditionally focuses on hunting for bugs and attacking computer systems. At the 2006 event this week, however, an entire track will be devoted to the security--rather than the insecurity--of Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7.

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Cisco Systems Inc.'s products will again come under scrutiny at this year's Black Hat USA 2006 conference, which kicks off later this month in Las Vegas.

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