Hacker joins US Homeland Security in advisory role
News Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the US Homeland Security Advisory Council. Security consultant Kevin Mitnick, who spent five years in prison on computer...
[June 8, 2009, 8:57]
Corporate crimeware threat 'moving to Adobe'
News Today, most spyware and other "crimeware" applications target flaws in client-side applications, explained Jeff Moss, who founded the Black Hat and Def Con hacker conventions. Office 2007 is much better architected, and the fine-grained...
[February 8, 2007, 14:22]
Internet-scale 'man in the middle' attack announced
News According to Black Hat founder and director Jeff Moss, most attendees didn't realise this was being done. Both Kapela and Moss drew parallels between this flaw and Dan Kaminsky's DNS disclosure in July.
[October 20, 2008, 12:11]
Black Hat to dissect Windows Vista
News It's an unprecedented and comprehensive first-look at the security in Vista and its associated Web browser, Black Hat director Jeff Moss said in an interview on Monday. Moss sold rights to the conference to technology publisher CMP Media in...
[August 1, 2006, 16:20]
US Report: Low-tech hacking a big problem
News Technology has little to do with it, said Jeff Moss, director of security assessment services at Secure Computer Corporation, Moss is also the founder of the Black Hat conference and its bad-boy sibling, the Def Con hackers' conference.
[August 3, 1998, 10:15]
Hackers striking more suddenly
News Within a day, you can take a patch, find a problem, and produce an exploit," said Jeff Moss, the founder of the Black Hat Security Briefings, which kicked off on Wednesday. It's mostly bad news for network administrators at this year's Black Hat...
[July 29, 2004, 9:20]
£35,000 prize to crack 'PitBull'
News said Jeff Moss, a hacker and security expert, to the Associated Press . A computer security firm announced Monday a $50,000 (about £35,000) prize to the first person who can crack its system protection package.
[January 16, 2001, 9:14]
Experts ask Google to boost privacy
News Some of the security experts endorsing the document include Bruce Schneier, chief security technology officer of BT Group; Peter Neumann, principal scientist at SRI International; encryption pioneer Ron Rivest of MIT; Steve Bellovin of Columbia...
[June 17, 2009, 9:41]
