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Black Hat 2013: Rise of the (smart) machines

Posted August 5, 2013 - 9:35 am

Don’t let all the light and heat over the NSA’s PRISM program fool you. The big story at this year’s annual Black Hat and DEFCON conferences was the myriad of ways that intelligent machines – from televisions to automobiles to medical devices – are creating new privacy and security risks.
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Black Hat: Ad networks lay path to million-strong browser botnet

Posted July 29, 2013 - 5:01 am

Long ago, we surrendered our privacy to the web. But research presented at this week’s Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas suggests that structural problems in the way the web works means we may have also surrendered our security, as well.
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At Black Hat learn to: kill diabetics, destroy Sony, steal a car, work at NSA

Posted August 8, 2011 - 1:54 pm

Demos at Black Hat were typically flashy, impressive and fascinating. They didn't compare to the global cyberespionage campaigns that have kept us at cyberwar for years without knowing it.
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R u h4X0R? n33d @ jo8? NSA wants you (locked up in a cubicle, not a cell)

Posted August 2, 2011 - 2:25 pm

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.
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New hacking tools on tap from Anonymous at this week's Black Hat

Posted August 1, 2011 - 4:23 pm

Anonymous is coming to this year's Black Hat a favorite for the Pwnies and a contributor to the new tools section, with a better option for DDOS attacks than DDOS, and a virus kit.
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Black Hat demo shows you don't have to be the Air Force to own a WiFi spy drone

Posted July 29, 2011 - 4:18 pm

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.
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Experts: Stuxnet is simplistic, kludgy, and about to crush you

Posted March 28, 2011 - 3:52 pm

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