Black Hat

Don't you love it when separate trends crash into each other, making a big fracking mess? That's what we have with the fattening of America creating more diabetics. Insulin pump manufacturers, trying to be all cool and with it, make wireless insulin pumps. And those trends run head on into the Black Hat convention in Las Vegas last week, where security researcher Jay Radcliffe detailed how his insulin pump and continuous glucose meter turned his body into a SCADA system. And those can be hacked.

NSA, the intelligence agency responsible for eavesdropping on foreign conversations and digital communications, is at Black Hat to recruite hackers to crack the "hardest problems," and is willing to put up with people who don't wear crisp white shirts every day to get them.

You can't get to every target you'd like to hack through the Internet. Sometimes it's better to hover over the WiFi network or smartphone owner and just listen covertly on what's going on. If the BUZZZZ of your engine doesn't tip off your targets.

A demo at Black Hat next week will remotely hack a car alarm, unlock the doors and start the vehicle, but that's just a parlor trick to call attention to a bigger problem that has the Department of Homeland Security on alert.

Malware experts call Stuxnet techniques 'embarrassing;' virus-propagation experts predict knockoffs will start attacking everything in sight.

While his Black Hat DC Conference demonstration was not flawless, a University of Luxembourg student on Wednesday did show that it's possible to trick iPhone users into joining a fake GSM network.

The Stuxnet worm and techniques for mounting offensive cyberattacks are among the subjects being debated at this week's Black Hat conference in Arlington, Va.

LAS VEGAS -- Radio frequency ID tags embedded in U.S. passports can be read hundreds of feet away, potentially making it inexpensive and easy to pick American tourists out of crowds for illicit purposes, "spychips", a demonstration at Black Hat 2010 showed.

Barnaby Jack hit the jackpot at Black Hat on Wednesday. Twice.

All the most commonly used Internet browsers are vulnerable to exploits that can force them to cough up users' personal information that can be used to hack into bank accounts or set them up for other attacks, the Black Hat 2010 conference will be told this week.

Black Hat organizers are looking to avoid pressure from outside groups to cancel important presentations by withholding details of selected talks at future events.

Looking deeper within malware yields fingerprints of the hackers who write the code, and that could result in signatures that have a longer lifetime than current intrusion-detection schemes, says one Black Hat 2010 speaker.