Saturday, August 3rd, 2013
More major brand-name Wi-Fi router vulnerabilities continue to be discovered, and continue to go unpatched, a security researcher has revealed at Defcon 21.
Jake Holcomb, a security researcher at the Baltimore, Md.-based firm Independent Security Evaluators and the lead researcher into Wi-Fi router vulnerabilities, said that problem is worse than when ISE ...
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Saturday, August 3rd, 2013
You may hate parallel parking, but you're going to hate it even more when somebody commandeers control of your car with you in it.
That was the scary scenario painted over the first two hours at the 21st annual Defcon hacker conference.
"Car hacking is definitely coming," said Zoz, of Cannytophic Design, who presented ...
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Saturday, July 27th, 2013
The world lost a great hacker/security researcher on Thursday, just days before he was going to present his talk on hacking implantable medical devices. He stated it was possible to remotely control a pacemaker (aka kill someone) from 30 feet away and worked with the device manufacturers to secure the ...
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Sunday, July 21st, 2013
Smartphones are susceptible to malware and carriers have enabled NSA snooping, but the prevailing wisdom has it there’s still one part of your mobile phone that remains safe and un-hackable: your SIM card.
Yet after three years of research, German cryptographer Karsten Nohl claims to have finally found encryption and software flaws that could affect millions of ...
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Friday, July 19th, 2013
At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, researchers will reveal critical vulnerabilities in many of the world’s most widely-used building security systems and RFID‑based badging systems.
Bishop Fox Senior Security Analysts Drew Porter and Stephen Smith and Partner Fran Brown will be presenting two separate talks that showcase methods of ...
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