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European Black-Hat Briefings cancelled
News Europe's very own dedicated security/hacker prevention conference, the Black Hat Briefings , scheduled to take place in Amsterdam on October 28-29, has been cancelled due to a lack of interest. The Black-Hat Briefings invite commercial security...
[October 13, 1999, 7:25]
Black Hat gears up in Las Vegas
News The eleventh annual Black Hat security conference will occupy more space at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas this year in order to accommodate more people, more topics, and, of course, more controversy. Several presenters are familiar to Black Hat...
[July 31, 2007, 9:43]
Cisco reaches deal with flaw researcher
News The dispute over a presentation on hacking Cisco Systems' router software at the Black Hat security conference culminated in a legal settlement on Thursday. Michael Lynn, a former ISS researcher, and the Black Hat organisers agreed to a permanent...
[July 29, 2005, 7:40]
Black Hat bans reporters over network hack
News Three journalists for a French security magazine were kicked out of the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas after they allegedly sniffed the press room computer network on Thursday. Organisers required the men to leave the conference...
[August 8, 2008, 12:02]
Wireless networks lure hackers
News A new way to attack wireless networks underscores the lack of security for PC owners using the airwaves to connect their computers, said security experts speaking at the Black Hat Briefings conference.
[July 13, 2001, 9:18]
US Report: Low-tech hacking a big problem
News Winkler's relatively easy break-in to the unnamed bank, which relied more on bluffing, or "phreaking," than technology, underscored one of the themes at this week's Black Hat Briefings '98 conference in Las Vegas: Technology is only a part-perhaps...
[August 3, 1998, 10:15]
What can we learn from the Cisco fiasco?
News In late July, Cisco and ISS made headlines when the companies took unprecedented steps to stop a former ISS employee from disclosing Internet security vulnerabilities in Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS) at the 2005 Black Hat security...
[September 9, 2005, 12:30]
Black Hat to dissect Windows Vista
News Last year, Cisco drew the ire of many Black Hat and DefCon attendees when it sued a security researcher and conference organisers after a session on router security. This year, Black Hat is not just about breaking and entering.
[August 1, 2006, 16:20]
Cisco tries to silence researcher
News The networking giant and Internet Security Systems jointly filed a request Wednesday for a temporary restraining order against Michael Lynn and the organizers of the Black Hat security conference. The legal moves came Wednesday afternoon, only...
[July 28, 2005, 8:40]
Security showdown: Black Hat vs. Def Con
News At the Black Hat Briefings security conference Wednesday and Thursday at Caesar's Palace, security experts will teach network administrators and information-technology managers how to protect their critical systems.
[July 11, 2001, 14:49]
Internet-scale 'man in the middle' attack announced
News In Black Hat's October Webinar on Thursday, Anton Kapela, datacentre manager at 5Nines Data, spoke about internet-scale 'man in the middle' attacks. According to Black Hat founder and director Jeff Moss, most attendees didn't realise this was being...
[October 20, 2008, 12:11]
Roundup: The summer of hacking
News Thu, 27 Jul Well-meaning hackers are creating an army of "script kiddies" by making security holes public, says a speaker at the Black Hat Security Conference BLACK HAT SECURITY CONFERENCESilence the best security policy
[July 13, 2000, 14:26]
Breaking Windows for better security
News The event, which Microsoft has not publicised, was dubbed "Blue Hat" - a reference to the widely known "Black Hat" security conference, tweaked to reflect Microsoft's corporate color. In a world where "white hats" are the security do-gooders and...
[June 21, 2005, 12:55]
DNS attacks occurring, warns Kaminsky
News Kaminsky planned to release details about the vulnerability during a talk he was scheduled to give at the Black Hat security conference a month later, in order to give people more time to patch their systems.
[August 22, 2008, 8:08]
TK Maxx 'should disclose hacking details'
News Speaking to ZDNet UK at the Black Hat 2007 security conference in Amsterdam, David Litchfield, managing director of NGS Software, who has found a number of vulnerabilities in Oracle database software, said that companies should give technical...
[March 30, 2007, 16:45]
Litchfield: ID database ethical, not technical problem
Blog David Litchfield, who has in the past dramatically exposed various vulnerabilities in Oracle, has told ZDNet UK at the Black Hat security conference in Amsterdam that the UK ID data base is an ethical, not technical problem.
[March 30, 2007, 16:50]
FBI: Help us fight hackers
News We need your expertise and input as we develop strategies to battle cybercrime in the 21st century," Daniel Larkin, a unit chief in the FBI's cybercrime division, said in his opening address at the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.
[August 3, 2006, 9:10]
Apple plugs iPhone SMS hole
News Researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner said at the Black Hat security conference that an attacker could use the SMS exploit to make calls, swipe data and send text messages. Apple has plugged an SMS flaw that could enable an attacker to...
[August 3, 2009, 8:52]
Researchers attack MMS phones via text message
News Researchers at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Thursday showed how an attacker could spoof a type of SMS message that appears to be sent from the carrier or some other trusted source.
[July 31, 2009, 16:21]
What colour is my trilby? The ethics of hacking by hacks
Blog Three French journalists have been thrown out of the Black Hat conference for sniffing their fellow hacks. But at a place called Black Hat, where the creatures of the press room really, really should know about wirelesss security?
[August 8, 2008, 15:44]
