The hacker attack at the Black Hat security conference Thursday took even the most jaded security experts by surprise.
In a presentation Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference in Washington, D.
The upcoming Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas offers an annual parade of security researchers revealing new ways to break various elements of the Internet.
On Thursday, Italian researcher Marco Balduzzi plans to present a paper at the Black Hat security conference in Barcelona on the scourge of HTML Parameter Pollution, or HPP.
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"There's a lot of gray area, " said Jeff Moss, who founded the Black Hat security conference, a prominent event for security researchers, and now helps advise the Department of Homeland Security.
Researcher Craig Heffner presented a paper at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas that exposed another vulnerability in millions of routers that would allow hackers to hijack a user's Web surfing.
Last year , at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, computer scientist Andrei Costin discussed weaknesses he said he found in a new U.S. air-traffic security system set to roll out next year.
In a talk at the Black Hat security conference in Barcelona Thursday, Greek researcher Thanassis Giannetsos plans to present a new software tool that he and two colleagues have written that they say would allow a malicious hacker to penetrate a sensor network and change or delete data at will.
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The inconspicuous lock hacking device is an adaption of one demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in July by Cody Brocious, a hacker and software developer for Mozilla, who discovered and exploited a vulnerability in Onity locks, a cheap and popular hotel room lock that the company says are used on at least four million hotel rooms worldwide.
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Riley Hassell and Shane Macaulay, two researchers with mobile security-focused Privateer Labs, plan to present two theoretical attacks on Android at the Black Hat security conference next month, both demonstrating new ways that a piece of mobile malware downloaded to a phone can surreptitiously exploit unexpected functions to gain control of the device, steal data, or make expensive phone calls.
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The team plans to demonstrate its findings at the Black Hat computer security conference, which begins July 27 in Las Vegas.
In a presentation at the Black Hat and Defcon security conference in July, for instance, French security researcher Andre Costin presented vulnerabilities in the next-generation air traffic control system known as ADS-B that he said would allow a hacker with a software-defined radio to track and even spoof planes in the sky, potentially creating dangerous distractions for pilots.
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Security professionals at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas spent Wednesday outlining the exploitable vulnerabilities in voice over Internet protocol technology, or VoIP.
In a Thursday afternoon presentation titled "Hacking Capitalism" at the Black Hat conference, a gathering of computer security experts, they detailed weaknesses in applications using Financial Information eXchange Protocol, or FIX, a common language used in communications between banks and commercial markets.
In the next two months, dozens of more vulnerabilities will likely be revealed at security research conferences like the HOPE conference in New York and the Black Hat and Defcon conferences in Las Vegas.
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