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The Munich Security Conference is the premier international and independent forum for foreign and security... Read more

25 January, 2012

Marlinspike suffers RSA authentication woes

Authentication expert Moxie Marlinspike had trouble getting into the RSA security conference in San Francisco on Monday, due to a lack of ID... Read more

29 February, 2012

Drone aims to eavesdrop on Wi-Fi from the sky

...A pair of security engineers at the Black Hat security conference have shown off a retrofitted US Army target drone that can... Read more

5 August, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Researchers call off Scada hack demonstration

...Two researchers said they cancelled a talk at a security conference on Wednesday on how to attack critical infrastructure systems, after US... Read more

19 May, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Researchers hack toys and iPhones at ToorCon

...Researchers at the ToorCon security conference in San Diego have shown how easy it can be to... Read more

25 October, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Researchers warn of Scada systems listed on Google

...information about themselves on the internet, a researcher at the Black Hat security conference has warned Read more

3 August, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Adobe to release emergency Reader fix

...vulnerability in its Reader program, which was disclosed at the Black Hat security conference Read more

6 August, 2010 by Elinor Mills

CloudFlare: How we got caught in LulzSec-CIA crossfire

...he did ask for permission to share the story at the DefCon security conference in August, but only got an email saying, "You have my... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Private browsing tools still leave data trail

...in a paper that is due to be presented at the Usenix security conference (PDF) on Wednesday. Local attackers can access the DNS resolution history... Read more

9 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Hague: UK was 'not hypocritical' over social media

...will not be our response." Hague spoke to ZDNet UK at a security conference in London, where he had earlier given a speech praising events... Read more

3 November, 2011

Tech firms patch 'Beast' SSL flaws

...PoC) tool called 'Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS' (Beast) at the Ekoparty security conference on 23 September. The Beast PoC allows a man-in-the... Read more

28 September, 2011

Square payment system is 'open to fraud'

...Researchers at the Black Hat security conference on Thursday revealed ways in which the Square payment system, which... Read more

5 August, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Laptop batteries pose security risk, researcher says

...security researcher has warned. Photo credit: Accuvant Labs At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, a security researcher demonstrated how he... Read more

5 August, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Demo highlights holes in industrial control systems

...Siemens Simatic Step 7 systems during his presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Beresford's work shows that it is possible... Read more

4 August, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Microsoft sets up $250,000 security research prize

...computer security defence. Winners will be announced at 2012's Black Hat security conference, with the grand prize being $200,000 (£122,000) and second... Read more

4 August, 2011 by Elinor Mills

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