White Hats Expose VoIP Security Threat
News Penetration testers have demonstrated a way of compromising computers by subverting VoIP software clients. The testers, who are from VoIP security firm Sipera, claim that they have found similar vulnerabilities in several vendors' enterprise VoIP...
[August 7, 2007, 17:49]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog For those who like their heroes in white hats and their villains in black, Microsoft's anti-spyware efforts are kicking up a disturbing amount of grey dust. Wednesday 25/5/05 Take today's story, that MS is trying to make it hard for spyware...
[May 27, 2005, 19:10]
Snowmen 3D
Downloads Two snowmen made with clean white snow and lovingly adorned with a hats, scarves, and brooms sit in the snowy front yard of a huge house. Fresh snow falls softly from the nighttime sky and the Christmas lights on the pine trees bathe the yard in...
[May 31, 2007, 17:31]
Paraben's Photo Wizard
Downloads You can even change a color photo to black & white and enhance objects (like roses and hats). Take your black & white photos and color them to make them look like real. Features include: Magically color any photo, whether it's black & white, sepia...
[August 11, 2004, 0:31]
Know Your Enemy: Motives
White Papers Learn how and why black-hats attack systems. This white paper explores the motivation and psychology of the black-hat community, in their very own words. This paper is a continuation of the Know Your Enemy series.
[December 8, 2003, 3:29]
Mozilla Fixes 10 Security Flaws
Talkback Their public bug bounty, in particular, is an excellent way of getting the white hats to find any bugs before the black hats get to them. Compare the Mozilla security fix process to the Microsoft security fix process.
[September 16, 2004, 14:05]
Bidding War For Scour Heats Up
News Given our history and the fact that we've been the guys with the white hats for so long, they were pleased about the idea of us being the ones to take over the assets," Wiser said. Liquid Audio, which has long created technology designed for legal...
[December 8, 2000, 9:43]
Breaking Windows For Better Security
News In a world where "white hats" are the security do-gooders and "black hats" are the hard-core villains, the hackers at Blue Hat were hardly representative of the dark side; if they had any pigment at all, it was no more than a tinge of grey.
[June 21, 2005, 12:55]
Microsoft Taught Security By Open-source Community
News I do believe there's a set of people out there.white-hats.who do a genuine job researching and finding security bugs," he said. However, Stathakopoulos says white-hat hackers that responsibly disclose security vulnerabilities to vendors, giving...
[May 7, 2003, 12:10]
Did FBI Informant Turn To The 'dark Side'?
News Hackers -- "white hats" -- scan computers from across the Internet to see if they are vulnerable; computer intruders -- "black hats" -- then take that information and break into the computer. But computer hackers respond that drug buyers and "grey...
[July 13, 2000, 14:00]
IDefense Launches Format Testing Kit
News This is definitely for the white hats. New tools could help bug hunters find vulnerabilities in popular file formats, such as the JPEG and GIF image formats. Flaws in how applications handle those file formats are drawing interest among security...
[July 29, 2005, 16:50]
The Luncher Awards For 1997
News Silly hats, cheap plastic toys and jokes that don't make sense. MSN: Rugby shirt, clear plastic A4 ring binder (nice black and white top, shame about the logo) The Luncher has chosen his 12 favourite blags of the year, listed below.
[January 2, 1998, 10:39]
Wi-Fi Gets Its Spurs With Soccer Rollout
News Hats off to Spurs for seeing what other clubs will soon see," said Greco. This makes White Hart Lane the first Premiership ground to be Wi-Fi-enabled, and comes a few months after a similar plan involving England's lower league clubs was announced.
[February 18, 2004, 13:50]
Security Firm U-turns On Banking Breach
News White hats break two-factor banking security UPDATE: Security firm TrustDefender has this morning withdrawn claims it made last Thursday that seemed to "prove" that the SMS-based two-factor authentication system used by many online banking systems...
[May 4, 2007, 11:13]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But the office is festooned with cuddly chameleons, stuffed penguins, comedy hats, half-empty bottles (they don't stay that way for long), novelty mouse mats, novelty mice, half-full USB key drives (this year's toy of choice) and many other PR...
[November 5, 2004, 17:03]
Wednesday
Blog Hats off to HP for a bit of lateral thinking, and even more so for a practical and most helpful idea. But put aside those images of welly-clad farmers in white smocks clasping their size 13 agricultural hands around the neck of some slimy denizen...
[December 13, 2002, 16:39]
The Day Ahead: Can Pets.com's Sock Puppet Save Its Stock?
News Mugs, bowls, shirts, hats and even watches are available. A marker and a white sock could go a long way. If you're Pets.com, you make use of your best asset -- the sock puppet mascot. Yes, the famous Pets.com sock puppet, who has appeared in ads...
[June 6, 2000, 11:23]
Sartorial Snafus And Giant Chocolate Bars At Wireless Show
News What would a convention be without "schwag", or the pens, hats, T-shirts and other baubles vendors give away for free to attract visitors to their booths? In the clip, Dayton was wearing a black sweater, white T-shirt and beige khakis, the same...
[March 20, 2003, 8:35]
