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Reporters expelled from Black Hat for snooping

August 8, 2008 — 8:40am ET | By Paul Mah
Three journalists were given the boot from the Black Hat security conference this week after they stretched the tradition of victimizing attendees who use the conference's wireless network a tad too... Read more...

Apple's Black Hat presentation canceled

August 5, 2008 — 5:34am ET | By Paul Mah
Initially scheduled to present at the well-known Black Hat Conference over in Las Vegas, Apple's security engineering team has withdrawn at the last minute... Read more...

Exploit code for DNS flaw released

July 25, 2008 — 6:23am ET | By Paul Mah
Exploit code for a much touted flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) has been released. This... Read more...

Mozilla: We'll patch flaws in 10 [expletive] days

August 8, 2007 — 6:59am ET
Imagine, if you will, the CEO of an open-source software vendor looking a cobra in the eye and daring the snake to bite him. Seems pretty brazen, doesn't it? Well, you might be surprised to hear... Read more...

Richard Clarke: Cybersecurity has a long way to go

August 2, 2007 — 6:59am ET
There's no doubt that we've made progress against the bad guys in cyberspace, but security guru Richard Clarke told attendees yesterday at the Black Hat security conference that we still have a long... Read more...

Oracle exploits coming at Black Hat DC 2007

February 26, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Looks like Oracle is going to be taken to task for security yet ... Read more...

Microsoft blocks Vista hack, opens new can of worms

October 22, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

At the Black Hat convention back in August, Polish researcher Joanna Rutkowska demonstrated a Vista hack that bypassed security in the 64-bit version of Vista to run unsigned driver code, which could be used to install malicious drivers on a user's hard drive. So here's the good news: Microsoft has since made changes to Vista's code that prevent such an attack. The bad news? Apparently, the company addressed the vulnerability by blocking write-access to raw disk sectors for applications …

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MacBook hack finale?

October 1, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

The continuing saga of the mysterious MacBook hack may have finally come to a close. If you've been living under a Microsoft-branded rock for the last few months, allow me to recap: Back in early August, two hackers by the names of Jon Ellch and David Maynor from security service provider SecureWorks demonstrated a vulnerability in Apple's AirPort wireless hardware at the Black Hat conference. In a video tape, the pair demonstrated how they were able to gain control of an Apple MacBook by …

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ALSO NOTED: The 25th anniversary of the IBM PC; Worm code posted on Web could ignite Windows attacks; and much more...

August 10, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

> The 25th anniversary of the IBM PC. Article > Worm code posted on Web could ignite Windows attacks. Read more...

Third Symantec report finds Vista bugs

August 9, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Symantec says it's found some security flaws in the heart of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista software. There are problems with the 64-bit version's kernel, in which malicious code could disable security measures, officials said. That basically repeats what security experts found at last week's Black Hat conference, although in this case Microsoft says it is irrelevant because Symantec tested on older beta versions. There are also critics who assert that Symantec, with which Microsoft …

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