Black Hat Technical Security Conference news from FierceCIO

Jeremiah Grossman, founder and CTO of White Hat Security, will be talking about how even decidedly "low-tech" scams on the Internet can result in large financial gains or losses, while at the Black... Read more...

Security experts Chris Gates and Mario Ceballos plan to release tools for breaking into Oracle Database systems during their presentation on "Oracle Pentesting Methodology" at the Black Hat and... Read more...

A new breed of SQL injection attacks could give hackers a way to take control of many of the underlying database servers powering websites. According to penetration tester Bernardo Damele Assumpcao... Read more...

Traditionally, the debate over Internet security has involved the battle between the industry that seeks to protect companies and individuals from intruders, and the companies that make their profit... Read more...

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...

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scheduled to present at the well-known Black Hat Conference over in Las Vegas, Apple's security engineering team has withdrawn at the last minute...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 a much touted flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) has been released. This... Read more...

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...

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...

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